“We’re just very close to the timeframe where technical risk was the biggest thing in the world. It was like, ‘Can we build it?’ was a real question. R&D was all about, ‘Hey, can we go build this thing? Can we do something that’s revolutionary,” asked Brant Cooper (@brantcooper), CEO of Moves the Needle, in our conversation at the 2018 IRI Annual Conference in Atlanta.
Stop validating potential innovations on technical merit. If you’re going to innovate, you need to first show there’s a market, explained Cooper.
Determining whether there’s a market for a product idea will require a lot more investigation than just asking customers, “What do you want?” As Cooper pointed out, “customers are horrible at predicting their own future.” Instead, delve into their desire and needs and then concept out a solution. Design first, but don’t actually make a product.
One of the most popular and potentially overused techniques to validate a product is to pretend it’s already been created and start marketing it. The response to the advertising of the product, and the requests for orders, should be enough to show the C-suite that demand exists and your company should start investing.
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