Strategy framework

Jobs to Be Done

Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School

People do not buy a product, they hire it to do a job. Naming the job sharpens the message, separates you from competitors, and shows what the product must actually do.

What it asks

Functional job

The practical task the customer hires this for. Concrete and observable.

Emotional job

How the customer wants to feel, or stop feeling, while the job gets done.

Social job

How the customer wants to be seen by others when using it.

The circumstance

The situation that triggers the hire. When and where does the job arise.

What gets hired today

The workaround or rival product doing this job now, including doing nothing.

Why it gets fired

What makes the customer sack the current solution. The opening.

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