We help companies find

  • We guide businesses in discovering unmet needs, assessing lucrative innovation opportunities, and formulating winning go-to-market strategies.
  • In the process, innovation efforts become well focused, more efficient, and less hit-or-miss. 
  • We do this through our proven and unique Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) discovery tools to reveal unmet needs missed by traditional customer and market research approaches

How a top pharmaceutical company identified gaps in neurodegenerative disease management

and how this led to a digital health solution that can revolutionize patient care.

How an e-commerce giant understood consumers’ emotional connections with payment methods

and how this sparked opportunities to deliver a more integrated shopping experience.

How a leader in technology insurance products learned what matters to its customers

and how this drove product strategy towards enhanced customer-centric device protection.

How a global agrochemicals company overcame customer data quality problems

and how this enabled the company’s ability to discover customer needs and identify opportunities.

How a major privately-held B2B textiles company embraced a B2C mindset

and how this opened the aperture of their growth through innovation strategies

Why is innovation often such a hit-or-miss endeavor for driving growth?

Widely accepted myths undermine current customer research practices and hamper innovation

  • Conventional market research is riddled with misconceptions that hinder true understanding.
  • Traditional innovation processes are driven by misguided principles that often turn it into a game of hit-or-miss.

Dark Horse: a proven and powerful approach for driving growth through innovation

  • Capture more actionable customer insights through a holistic understanding of their desires, beliefs and abilities.
  • Unleash innovation opportunities to address customer needs with more predictable go-to-market success.

Myth 1:

Customer-centricity means making customers the focus of discovery research.

Skeptical?  Curious?

Myth 2:

Innovation opportunities spawn by asking customers what they like, dislike, or would change about available offerings.

Skeptical?  Curious?

The more powerful way:

Find more actionable customer insights, and develop more successful innovations, by understanding what customers are trying to accomplish, their motivations and the obstacles they face. 

Skeptical?  Curious?

Growth and innovation are essential, yet often elusive.

  • We reframe the way companies in all industries discover unmet needs and how they can remove the guesswork out of developing innovations to address them.
  • Our Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) platform has proven advantages over any other approach for generating actionable growth and innovation opportunities

80%

of executives have innovation as one of their 3 top priorities.

90%

of executives are dissatisfied with their organization’s innovation performance

95%

of the 30,000 products introduced each year fail to meet commercial success goals.