Thinking outcomes over features
Imagine it is 2007, there is no Apple, you are a new entrant developing a product that will go head to head with Nokia’s flagship phone the N95. You are the product manager who is responsible for the success of the product. You are focused upon beating Nokia; you’ve made it your business to intimately know the N95, you can recite the list of features it has from memory. You have a meeting with your design team and they break the news. They tell you the spec they have come up with. “Let me get this straight” you say. “You are telling me that the phone you are proposing we take to market will have no Card slot, no 3G, no Bluetooth (headset support only), no decent camera, no MMS, no video, no cut and paste, no secondary video camera, no radio, no GPS, no Java…” “Yup” the team say. How do you feel? Ditch the feature list that you’ve fixated upon in your quest to beat your competitors flagship product? Only the brave would avoid the tick box mentality and strive for feature parity as a minimum requirement. Would you really throw out 3G, GPS and a decent camera; the real innovations in the market place? The first generation of iPhone was released in June 2007, three months after Nokia’s flagship handset the N95. On paper, when you compare the phone features side by side, it is a sorry looking list. As a product manager would you rather have the iPhone or the N95 on your resume?
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- 2. Beating the competition means delivering more features only a madman would deliver less Hypothesis
- 3. Let’s go back in time
- 5. Three months ago Nokia announced the N95, integrating a wide range of features into a consumer-oriented smartphone.
- 7. Vs.
- 9. ✗ Card slot ✗ 3g ✗ Bluetooth ✗ Infrared ✗ Decent camera ✗ Secondary camera ✗ Camera flash ✗ MMS ✗ Radio ✗ Video ✗ Video calling ✗ TV out ✗ Music ring tones ✗ Voice dialing ✗ Voice commands ✗ GPS ✗ JAVA ✗ Push to talk
- 10. ✗ Card slot ✗ 3g ✗ Bluetooth ✗ Infrared ✗ Decent camera ✗ Secondary camera ✗ Camera flash ✗ MMS ✗ Radio ✗ Video ✗ Video calling ✗ TV out ✗ Music ring tones ✗ Voice dialing ✗ Voice commands ✗ GPS ✗ JAVA ✗ Push to talk Feeling nervous?
- 11. Feeling nervous?
- 13. iPhone Sales to Surpass 100 Million by 2011 Katy Huberty. June 16, 2010 “ “
- 14. Apple pips Microsoft as world's biggest Reuters, May 27, 2010 “ “
- 15. At Sony we assume that all products of our competitors have basically the same technology, price, performance and features. Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace. Norio Ohga, former Chairman and CEO, Sony “ “
- 16. Share prices of companies using design effectively outperformed FTSE All- Share index by 200% over 10 years h"p://www.theuxbookmark.com/links/business-‐case/ “ “
- 17. Beating the competition means delivering more features only a madman would deliver less Hypothesis is refuted, null hypothesis accepted Hypothesis
- 18. Beating the competition means delivering compelling customer centric design