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The three key ingredients when creating effectiveness

April 9, 2018

Customers, markets and technologies don’t stand still, yet it’s all too easy for businesses to make important decisions without accounting for the fact that change is inevitable.

Product Thinking, a more progressive approach to planning and rolling out work, recognises that experiences should develop alongside the evolving expectations of customers, that adaptability is vital, and that constantly moving forward and improving is the only way to stay ahead.

What is Product Thinking?

A Product Thinking approach involves prioritising work that’ll make the biggest commercial impact, and constantly looking for ways to make the brilliant products you’ve created even better.

The pillars of Product Thinking

Prioritising the work that’ll make the biggest commercial impact, and constantly looking for ways to make the brilliant products you’ve created even better.

Do the right thing

Implementing a clear framework for decision-making and focusing on human-centred design and outcomes rather than deliverables.

Do it the right way

Using lean delivery practices to build, measure and learn, releasing early and often with continual insight-driven iteration and refinement, while applying modern engineering principles (such as decoupled architecture, TDD and continuous deployment).

Do it together

Removing the silos of an organisation for speed and effectiveness and aligning the entire culture towards shared goals and metrics, with autonomy in teams to find the best way forward.

By fostering this non-siloed culture based around clearly-defined goals in their organisation, businesses can stay agile and more immediately correlate investment with commercial return.

It’s an approach we consistently apply to the digital products we create here at Code Computerlove, and we’ve helped numerous clients adopt a Product Thinking approach internally too

Who’s using Product Thinking?

Everyone from manufacturers to digital agencies like us apply Product Thinking. A ‘digital effectiveness’ survey we conducted in collaboration with Econsultancy revealed that many top-performing businesses are taking on its characteristic behaviours.

The report demonstrated some of the differences in mindset between respondents that are outperforming or performing well, and those who aren’t.

It revealed that top performers are more likely to be looking to ‘increase customer lifetime value’ than their mainstream counterparts (68% vs. 47%). Similarly, they’re aiming to ‘speed up their performance’ (50% vs. 38%), ‘improve the integration of the business’ (49% vs. 30%), ‘achieve defined deliverables’ (46% vs. 27%) and ‘develop internal knowledge and capabilities’ (40% vs. 27%).

Taken together, these aims very much reflect the Product Thinking approach.

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About EM Code

EM Code is a customer experience, digital innovation and AI agency. 

We’re a strategic digital partner that delivers breakthrough growth throughout the customer experience (CX). 

We achieve this through our industry-renowned services in digital transformation, web development, brand strategy, click rate optimisation (CRO) and UX (user experience).

Our human centric approach underpins every aspect of our work.

A collective of experts in multiple disciplines, we collaborate to distil the complex needs of organisations and end users to engineer solutions that make an impact.

From fast scaling start ups to global brands, we can help you to transform your organisation.

We are an EssenceMediacom North agency.

About EssenceMediacom North

EssenceMediacom North helps brands to breakthrough in the new communications economy.

Disrupting models of media, EssenceMediacom North accelerates creative and business transformation for its clients roster, including Hillarys, Absolute Collagen, Webuyanycar.com and United Utilities.

The agency delivers breakthrough growth, capabilities, and revenue through the integration of media, creativity, data and technology, combined with its diverse industry-leading expertise.

Equipped with access to the richest data, robust benchmarking and advanced technologies, EssenceMediacom North unlocks new opportunities to deliver truly integrated media solutions for scaling and global brands.

EssenceMediacom North is part of WPP’s media investment group, GroupM

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