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sharkGeist: stay fresh, keep moving!Why does a successful industrial design company get interested in product value development? Why do they concern themselves with jobs and outcomes. What are groks and user profiles. Is segmenting just something for the marketing crowd? Are they nuts when they think that product design and marketing should be sending the same message?

Why do they think Voice of the Customer is more noise than voice? Why do they interest themselves with what users do instead of what they say they want? Why don't they just mind their business and design attractive products?



It started with an question

The idea behind sharkGeist can be summed up with a simple question: How do we insure that we are designing and developing the right products? How do we get the right ideas and how can convert them into successful products?

The answer for us is based on value. In our world of product design and development, this means more specifically, product value. This value has to translate into experiences and features that customers value. The most important way to ensure products and experiences that customers value is to carefully choose the products that get developed.

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sharkgeist: stay fresh, keep moving

Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde had a great idea for designing an animal based theme park but he was having difficulty persuading Disney top management. Objections evaporated when he brought a 400-pound Bengal tiger to the next meeting! Animal Kingdom was born.