Competing Against Luck

By Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon , David S. Duncan

Book cover of Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

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The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for. How do companies know how…

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1 author picked Competing Against Luck as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Every company wants to innovate, but it's not always clear how to do that in practice. Competing Against Luck highlights the importance of understanding what "jobs" your customer "hires" your product to do. The ‘Jobs to be Done Theory’ is one of the best frameworks I have seen to drive toward innovation and product-market fit. In the CRO world, we typically think about optimizing experience, but optimizing the product-market fit is equally as important.

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