How to Answer “What’s the Job-to-be-Done?”

Jared Ranere
thrv
Published in
9 min readFeb 7, 2018

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Over a year after the publication of Clay Christensen’s book about Jobs Theory, Competing Against Luck, Jobs-to-be-Done is a much more common topic at companies of all sizes and sectors. As the question, “What’s the job-to-be-done?” becomes ever more frequent, confusion around how to answer the question rises. Product managers and executives we work with often wonder if their colleagues know the difference between a…

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Jared Ranere
thrv
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