Professional Painter Painting a Room

Can ChatGPT emulate an Outcome-Driven Innovation Practitioner?

Smiling as he becomes a “New Me!”

I realize that many of you would like to adhere to the core principles of Outcome-Driven Innovation when creating job maps and desired outcomes statements. I totally understand. Therefore, I’d like to share with you that - yes - I have done some work on this and while there is more work to do, it ain’t bad.

The following Job-to-be-Done has been studied a number of times (once by me). While I won’t share any of those works, I will say that this one is very close. I still have some work to do on phrasing of Job steps (and I’m also instructing it to consider a Resolve phase in addition to Modify), but frankly, everyone crafts them slightly differently so I’d simply be imposing my style, or someone else’s style on the instructions.

So, instead of generating an entire catalog, I’m simply sharing the map and desired outcome statements that I’ve generated using ChatGPT. I am still fine-tuning this because even though I’ve been very instructive, it occasionally (even v. 4.0) ignores my rules. I don’t always correct it because that gobbles up the limited number of messages I can send every 3 hours.

For example, Minimize the likelihood that/of statements shouldn’t have words or phrases like “not”, “does not”, “is not”, etc. Nor should there be connective words in any statement like “and” or “or”. ChatGPT is a lot like my wife, it ignores me! 😆

I’ll keep you posted on my progress as I make the adjustments.

Note: the study I did used a less specific executor because we were testing multiple contexts, e.g., professional painters and DIYers.

Job Executor: Professional Painter

Job-to-be-Done: Painting a Room

Link to Job Map and Outcomes (triangle to the left of the step is a toggle button!)

Please share your comments below. Let me know if you spot any problems.

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