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Building Trust and Surviving Digital Disruption: Improving Your Product/Market Fit by Applying Design Thinking to the Sales Process
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We are in a period of digital disruption, and, as we like to say, “You are either being disrupted, or you are the disruptor.” During this segment of The Disruptor podcast, we discuss experiences and stories from the field that will empower any burgeoning entrepreneurs to deepen their design thinking practice and any naysayers to give it a second look.
Jan and John interview Nicholas Jayanty, a Principal User Experience Researcher at Red Hat and former film maker. Jayanty’s human-centric focus began early on. As a kid, he was into writing and storytelling. Film and theater classes segued into deep dives into critical theory and gender and race studies. As a college student at the University of Texas majoring in communications, with a focus on radio, TV and film, he made a movie about identity called Young Mutt.
After moving to New York City in 2004 and working as a freelance production assistant by initially “cold-calling at least 600 people,” Jayanty says, laughing, he co-founded a production company in Austin called Reversal Films with another producer, Victor Moyers.
Jayanty was part of a major effort at IBM to boost IBM Design Thinking, a specialized approach to design thinking for large-scale organizations and businesses.“I’m very sensitive to how people self-identify and socially identify. My own identity is really fluid. With interaction design, it’s all about finding the truth and shattering assumptions,” said Jayanty. “You talk to your users, and they either discredit or validate those assumptions. It’s not about designing an experience. It’s about designing for an experience.”
Learn more about Nicholas here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/njayanty/
We start the show by exploring the value of design thinking and how it is disrupting the buyer's experience.
Followed by a discussion of the five-step process that Nicholas and John co-created to help build a trusting relationship with their buyers during the early stages of the sales process.
In the third part of the show, we explore ways that design thinking can help you find your customers' unmet needs in order to swim in the blue ocean.
If you would like a copy of the documents referenced during the show; The Disruptor’s Design Thinking Primer or The Disruptor’s 5 Steps to Better Market Fit Please send a Direct Message (DM) on Twitter or LinkedIn or email to The Disruptor.
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