The Practical Innovator's Guide to Customer-Centric Growth

The Practical Innovator's Guide to Customer-Centric Growth

Beyond the Funnel: Using JTBD to Find Untapped Growth in Your Purchase Journey

Uncover why customers really buy (and why they don't) by focusing on their true "Job" within the purchase process.

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Mike Boysen
May 23, 2025
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Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Beyond the Funnel – Why Your Current Purchase Journey Insights Are Falling Short

    • The Evolving Customer: Increased expectations, information overload.

    • Limitations of Traditional Purchase Journey Metrics

    • Introducing the Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) Lens

    • Thesis

  • Deconstructing the "Purchase Journey": What Job Are Customers Really Trying to Get Done?

    • The Purchase Journey as a Job

    • Identifying Core Functional and Emotional Jobs

    • The role of context

  • The Shortcomings of Traditional Purchase Journey Evaluation

  • A New Strategy: Evaluating the Purchase Journey with Jobs-to-be-Done

    • Step 1: Define the "Main Purchase Job" and Key "Journey Jobs."

    • Step 2: Uncover Desired Outcomes for Each Journey Job.

    • Step 3: Map the Actual Customer Journey & Measure Outcome Achievement.

    • Step 4: Pinpoint Underserved Outcomes – The Seeds of Innovation.

  • Elevating the Abstraction: Innovating the Purchase Journey Itself

    • Working Today (That Few Are Doing)

    • Novel Concepts for the Future

  • Benefits of a JTBD-Driven Purchas…

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