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Michael Schrage • Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?
The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)
amazon.com
Thus, it is not the customer, but rather our hypothesis about the customer, that pulls work from product development
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Amazon Aggregators: Breakdown Research
joincolossus.comIn a class called Social Software, which I taught last fall, the students worked in small groups to design and launch software to support some form of group interaction. To anchor the class, I required that whatever project they came up with be used by other ITP students. This first order benefits of this strategy were simple: the designers came fr... See more
Clay Shirky • Situated Software
They discovered that their primary customer, very seasoned developers with 7–15 years of experience, wanted to scale up their skills but not on a predetermined career path.
Martin Eriksson • Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
Instead of starting from scratch to design new Lego sets, we can alter each others. Lego realizes instant efficiency gains, dropping the cost of developing and designing new Lego sets.