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Critical Path is a talk show contemplating the causality of success and failure in mobile computing. Using Apple as a lens to look at both telecom and traditional computing markets, we try to understand what it means to be great. Hosted by Dan Benjamin & Horace Dediu.
The Critical Path #19: The hiring and firing of milkshakes and candy bars
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December 29, 2011 at 9:00am • Short URL • Wiki Entry
Horace talks with Bob Moesta, a pioneer of Job To be Done research. We go over the theory and process of understanding what products are really hired to do and ask why this understanding is so hard to come by. In a discussion rich with examples from multiple industries Bob illustrates how marketing, design and engineering are all dancing around the question of how product should be developed. Could the universally accepted compartmentalization of corporate functions be a root cause to product failure?
This episode is sponsored by Shopify.
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