HOW TO DISCOVER CUSTOMER VALUE?: TOOLS TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS

Category Business & Economics
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 295

ISBN: 978-93-5520-007-5
Pages: 264 pages
Date: 10th October 2021

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Introducing the Value Discovery Canvas tool
Is there a structured process to develop customer insights that can be shared and brainstormed across teams? If you know what the customer really wants, you can grow your business, develop competitive advantage, create superior customer value and avoid wasteful expenditure.
This book provides a useful framework called the Customer-Action-Cycle, introduces the Value Discovery Canvas tool, and lays down the Value Discovery Process. Written in a simple, easy-to-understand language, the book addresses two basic questions:
Where does customer value reside and how does one find it?

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

S. Parthasarathy, the author of Unmet Needs of Entrepreneurship: Why Entrepreneurs Do What They Do, is a serial entrepreneur with over three decades of industry and entrepreneurial experience. He built three exciting software web-based solutions in ‘Jugaad’ mode that resulted in the development of India’s first Software-as-a-Service (Saas)-based solution to manage apartment complexes in 2008. Prior to his entrepreneurial stint, he worked as a merchant banker with ITC Classic Finance, the NBFC arm of ITC Ltd. Currently, he heads the alumni relations function at IIM Bangalore and is a mentor for early-stage start-ups at NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore. He received his MBA from IIM Bangalore in 1994. He continues to be fascinated by his childhood interests in astronomy, Star Wars, Star Trek, ancient history, geography, people and world culture. A pacifist by choice, he is against cruelty to animals. He lives with his wife, two kids and Mia, their dog, in Bengaluru, India.