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Jobs-to-be-Done: An Introduction

George White
November 05, 2014

Jobs-to-be-Done: An Introduction

An overview of the Jobs-to-be-Done framework, presented at the Boston Magazine Power of Ideas Symposium, November 5, 2014.

George White

November 05, 2014
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  1. The Jobs-to-be-Done Framework
    An Introduction

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  2. George White
    Principal Consultant &
    SVP Innovation,
    Cantina

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  3. What is Jobs-to-be-Done?

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  4. “The jobs-to-be-done framework is a tool for
    evaluating the circumstances that arise in
    customers’ lives…With an understanding of the
    “job” for which customers find themselves
    “hiring” a product or service, companies can more
    accurately develop and market products well-
    tailored to what customers are already trying to
    do.”
    – Clayton Christensen

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  5. Jobs-to-be-Done in a Nutshell
    Jobs-to-be-Done is a framework to help marketers
    and product developers create better products by
    understanding why consumers buy products.

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  6. Jobs-to-be-Done in a Nutshell
    Jobs-to-be-Done is built on the assumption that
    consumers purchase products and services based
    on a Job that they need to do.

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  7. Jobs-to-be-Done in a Nutshell
    The Jobs-to-be-Done framework provides
    principles and practices to aid understanding of
    context that leads a consumer to Hire a solution
    for a Job, then turn that understanding into
    product and marketing decisions.

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  8. Jobs-to-be-Done in a Nutshell
    JTBD uses interviews to reveal the emotional
    energy that leads consumers to make the Switch
    to a new solution and the Progress-making
    forces that influenced the process.

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  9. Jobs-to-be-Done in a Nutshell
    Once we understand the Job, the context, and the
    energy, we can make decisions about how to
    develop our products around the real needs of the
    consumer.

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  10. What JTBD is About
    ● Focusing on why consumers buy
    ● Investigating real consumer decision that have
    actually happened
    ● Identifying the emotional energy around
    consumer decisions

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  11. What JTBD is Not About
    ● Personas
    ● Product features and functions
    ● Looking at what customers say they want
    ● Asking customers what they might do

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  12. What JTBD Will Help You Do
    JTBD will help you talk to consumers to gain
    understanding of why they hire products or
    services for a job. From there, it will help you to
    identify the key elements that created the energy
    that drove a hiring decision and what steps you
    can take to select trade-offs in your products.

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  13. Digging in to
    Jobs-to-be-Done

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  14. What is a Job?
    Simply put, a Job is a situation that someone
    needs to resolve.

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  15. The Consideration Set
    The consideration set is the universe of solutions
    that exist for a Job. It’s the hiring pool for the job.

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  16. Hiring, Firing & Switching
    Consumers…
    ● hire a product or service as a solution for a Job
    ● fire a solution when it doesn’t fit the Job, or
    when it no longer exists
    ● make a switch when they fire one solution in
    favor of another for the same Job

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  17. The Progress-making Forces
    JTBD looks at four progress-making forces:
    ● Push of the Situation
    ● Pull of the New Solution
    ● Anxiety of the New Solution
    ● Habit of the Present

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  18. Progress-making Forces: Push
    Push is energy that drives a consumer to seek a
    new solution. It occurs when there is a current
    situation that has an inadequate solution today.
    “This isn’t working. I need to make it better.”

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  19. Progress-making Forces: Pull
    Pull is the energy that carries a consumer towards
    a possible solution. It occurs once a consumer has
    some information about that solution and can
    understand how it might fit the job.
    “Can this help me make progress?”

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  20. Progress-making Forces: Anxiety
    Anxiety is energy that pushes a consumer away
    from a new solution. It is driven by concerns about
    the suitability and usability of the solution.
    “Will it work? Can I figure it out?”

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  21. Progress-making Forces: Habit
    Habit is the energy that pulls a user to stay with
    the existing solution. It’s the inertia built up
    around the status quo.
    “What I’m doing today isn’t that bad. And I’m
    familiar with it, so why switch?”

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  22. Techniques & Tools

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  23. The Timeline
    Timeline illustration by Margeret Wilkins, http://jtbd.info

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  24. The Switch Interview
    The Switch Interview is a key technique of JTBD.
    Using the experiences of real consumers, people
    who have gone through the process of selecting
    and consuming a product, we investigate the
    context and energy to determine why they did so.

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  25. The Switch Interview
    The Switch Interview is about hunting for energy.
    We want to understand the context around the
    events of the timeline, from the First Thought
    through purchase and consumption. We want to
    identify the bracket of the timeline.

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  26. The Switch Interview
    For the interview, we want to talk to consumers
    who actually bought the product. Our interviewee
    has made the purchase decision in the recent
    past, so they can recall enough about the event to
    be useful.

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  27. The Switch Diagram
    The questions in the interview should help us:
    ● Identify the point of purchase
    ● Find the first thought
    ● Build the consideration set
    ● Understand the emotional energy
    And look for HOLY COW insights!
    https://medium.com/@marksweep/jobs-to-be-done-interview-script-d290c42b2b48

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  28. The Switch Interview
    As with most interview techniques, you want to
    conduct several interviews. The goal is to
    synthesize patterns of behavior and find the key
    triggers the lead to a purchase.

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  29. The Switch Interview
    Once the interview is done,
    you need to capture the
    insights you’ve gained. Use
    the JTBD worksheet to
    capture what you’ve learned.
    http://bit.ly/jtbdpostworkseet

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  30. The Forces Diagram

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  31. Applying JTBD: Job Stories
    https://medium.com/the-job-to-be-done/replacing-the-user-story-with-the-job-story-af7cdee10c27

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  32. JTBD Resources
    jobstobedone.org
    jtbd.info
    medium.com/the-job-to-be-done
    udemy.com/mastering-jobs-to-be-done-interviews
    #JTBD on Twitter

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  33. And now it’s time for
    questions!

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  34. George White
    @stonehippo
    [email protected]
    More Questions? Comments? Ping me at:
    cantina.co

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