1. The document discusses gaining market insights for new product ideas. It suggests that for horizon 1 products, the best approach is to listen to customers, but for horizon 2, companies should test assumptions, and for horizon 3, find the right problems rather than asking customers directly.
2. It also notes that roadmaps are not commitments to customers but can be used to gain market insights, and should visualize the product vision as agreed upon by the team rather than just the product manager alone.
3. The presentation includes a quiz on market insights and discusses the importance of understanding customer needs, market trends, and using the build-measure-learn loop with prototypes and MVPs to gain insights rather than surveys.
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Market insight why and how
1. Market Insight ¨C Why and How
Quiz and presentation
Harri Pendolin, Prodman
Product Tank Meetup
27th of November 2014, Helsinki
2. #1 reason why new product ideas fail
We don¡¯t understand market needs!
Roadmap - Why and How 2014
3. CHALLENGE: What do YOU know
about market insights? Are you ready
for a quiz?
Please, take your smart device, open a browser and
go to kahoot.it. Enter game pin and your nick
name.
The quiz can be found here: https://create.kahoot.it/#quiz/3332259a-3292-4343-8592-6bec1402e46a
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4. 1. Customer insight is knowing the needs and
problems your customers have
? Sales meeting
? Customer advisory boards
? Product statistics
? Feedback from customer support
? ¡
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5. 2. Customer insight is also competitive
intelligence
Positioning
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6. 3&4. Customer insight is understanding
market trends and technology insight
Current market
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The next wave
Time
Money
Every market and product has it¡¯s finite life-cycle!
7. 1. For new product ideas the best way to gain
market insight is NOT to ask your customers
The Challenge with new product ideas
- Customers don¡¯t know what they will
need!!
Roadmap - Why and How 2014
8. 2. For new product ideas the best way to gain
market insight is NOT to use agile development
methodologies
Being agile is good for REACTING to
market insight, not to GAIN it
Roadmap - Why and How 2014
9. 3. For new product ideas the best way to gain
market insight is NOT to use online surveys
In most of the cases surveys are made
to reinforce our OWN assumptions.
Roadmap - Why and How 2014
10. 4. For new product ideas the best way to gain
market insight is to use Build-Measure-Learn loop
Ideas
Learn
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Build
Product
Measure
Data
Market Insight
12. Three horizons planning framework
Horizon 1
Horizon 2
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Horizon 3
Current products
Strategic themes or
focus areas for new
products
Vision
Time
Money
Three horizons - three different needs for market insight!
13. Gain market insight for horizon 1
Listen to your
customers!
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14. Gain market insight for horizon 2
Test your
assumptions!
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Picture by Mikko J?ppinen, Palmu Inc.
15. Gain market insight for horizon 3
Find the right
problems!
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16. ¡°If you don't know where you are
going, any road will get you there.¡±
Lewis Carroll, writer of Alice in Wonderland
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17. 1. Roadmap is NOT a commitment to your
customers
Disclaimer:
This document (¡°Roadmap¡±) contains
forward-looking statements based on
current expectations, forecasts and
assumptions of the Company that
involve risks and uncertainties.
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18. 2. Roadmap can be used to gain market
insight
Yes, but be careful with it!
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19. 3. Roadmap shall visualize your product
vision
¡°An artefact that communicates
the direction you¡¯ll be going in
order to fulfill the product
vision.¡±
Janna Bastow, Co-Founder, ProdPad
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20. 4. Roadmap contents shall NOT come only
from product manager
Roadmaping and gaining market insight is teamwork
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