Customer's Job

Em vez da segmentação dos clientes por regiões geográficas, por idades, por produtos,... prefiro trabalhar com o conceito de proposta de valor.
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Proponho que identifiquemos o cliente-alvo, que lhe dêmos um nome e o interroguemos, o que o leva(rá) a ficar satisfeito com o fornecedor?
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"The process that marketers call market segmentation is, in our parlance, the categorization stage of theory building. Only if managers define market segments that correspond to the circunstances in which customers find themselves when making purchasing decisions can they accurately theorize which products will connect with their customers. When managers segment markets in ways that are misaligned with those circumstances, market segmentation can actually cause them to fail - essentially because it leads managers to aim their new products at phantom targets."
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"... customers "hire" products to do specific "jobs," can help management segment their markets to mirror the way their customers experience life. In so doing, this approach can also uncover opportunities for disruptive innovation."
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Foi deste trecho, retirado de "The Innovator's Solution" de Clayton Christensen e Michael Raynor, que me lembrei quando li este artigo da revista Harvard Business Review de Maio de 2008: "The Customer-Centered Innovation Map" de Lance Bettencourt e Anthony Ulwick.
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"We all know that people “hire” products and services to get a job done. "
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"“job mapping,” breaks down the task the customer wants done into a series of discrete process steps. By deconstructing a job from beginning to end, a company gains a complete view of all the points at which a customer might desire more help from a product or service—namely, at each step in the job. With a job map in hand, a company can analyze the biggest drawbacks of the products and services customers currently use. Job mapping also gives companies a comprehensive framework with which to identify the metrics customers themselves use to measure success in executing a task."