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Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

Competir contra la suerte: la historia de la innovación y la elección del cliente

Clayton M. Christensen; Taddy Hall; Karen Dillon; David S. Duncan

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Call number
BZ · BS-031
Language
English
Physical copies
1
Publisher
HarperBusiness
Published
Oct 04, 2016
ISBN
9780062565235
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What it is about

Christensen and his coauthors develop the jobs-to-be-done theory: customers ‘hire’ products and services to make progress in particular circumstances. Instead of segmenting people only by demographics or product attributes, the framework asks what functional, social, and emotional struggle drives a choice—and what alternatives compete for that job. Its place here is personal: I want the argument to meet the life I am actually living.

Why I keep it

Jobs to be done. The one theory of why people buy that I keep using.

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