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Your B2B Customers Aren’t Emotionless Automatons
Why B2B Innovation Needs to Take Customer Emotions Seriously For years, B2B marketing and product development have been guided by a...

Paul Peterson
Feb 12, 20253 min read


Don’t Test for Success. Aim to Fail Instead.
Designing Product Research To Expose Product Flaws In product development, testing is often approached as a process to validate success....

Paul Peterson
Feb 8, 20253 min read


Why Being "Customer-Centric" Isn’t Enough
For years, the mantra of "customer-centricity" has dominated boardrooms, product meetings, and marketing strategies. The idea is simple:...

Paul Peterson
Feb 5, 20253 min read


When You Should Avoid Catalytic Customers. Seriously.
We obviously believe that the Catalytic Customer framework is a powerful tool for driving innovation and improving products, enabling...

Paul Peterson
Feb 4, 20254 min read


The Innovation-Adoption Gap: Why Great Ideas Struggle to Take Hold
Innovation moves fast. Adoption is slower. This fundamental mismatch is why so many groundbreaking ideas, technologies, and products...

Paul Peterson
Jan 29, 20252 min read


The Silent Crisis of Lapsing Customers: How to Spot the Problem and Stop It Early
In a world of subscription fatigue, fierce competition, and evolving customer expectations, lapsing customers are the silent killers of...

Paul Peterson
Jan 26, 20253 min read


Innovation Starts with Listening—So Why Aren’t You?
We've been doing this for a long time and, by this point, we've encountered every excuse in the book. If you’re a Product Manager, you’ve...

Paul Peterson
Jan 16, 20254 min read


The Innovation Balancing Act: When to Be Customer-Led and When to Be Engineering-Led
In our time working with innovation and product management teams, we have witnessed a common and frequent tug-of-war between leveraging...

Paul Peterson
Jan 16, 20254 min read


Why Brands Can’t Afford to Rely Solely on Their Own User Data
Without question, we operate in a data-driven world, where brands have access to unprecedented amounts of information about their...

Paul Peterson
Jan 14, 20253 min read


How Catalytic Customers Might Save the Wine Industry from Itself
The wine industry is at a critical crossroads. For decades, it has relied on traditional marketing approaches, conventional distribution...

Paul Peterson
Jan 14, 20254 min read


Approaching Co-Creation with Purpose
Co-creation. It’s a concept that’s been hyped to death before most companies have even figured out how to do it properly. It gets talked...

Paul Peterson
Jan 11, 20254 min read


There’s More to Research in the Digital Age than UX Research
In our digital-first world, user experience (UX) research has become a cornerstone of product development. Companies obsess over testing...

Paul Peterson
Jan 6, 20254 min read


The Echo Chamber Problem, or You are Not Your Target
As product managers, it's natural to believe that we know our products inside and out. After all, we are the architects behind the...

Paul Peterson
Jan 3, 20254 min read


Your MVP Is Killing Innovation: Why Starting with Minimum Value is Maximum Risk
When was the last time your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) truly delivered groundbreaking insights or propelled your team toward meaningful...

Paul Peterson
Jan 2, 20253 min read


Do Less, Get More
The Catalytic Customer Paradox As the founder of CoinJar Insights & Strategy, I’ve spent my career championing the power of research. The...

Paul Peterson
Dec 29, 20243 min read


Shortening the Time Between Hypothesis and Insight
Against an increasingly competitive landscape and amidst rapidly accelerating technological change, product managers are under more...

Paul Peterson
Dec 28, 20243 min read


Marketers Need Catalytic Customers, Too
A Goldmine for Marketing Strategy, Not Just Product Management When we think about Catalytic Customers, it's easy to pigeonhole them as...

Paul Peterson
Dec 18, 20244 min read


Cracking the Code: Understanding Mental Models to Drive Product Planning
Every product manager has to juggle priorities—user needs, business goals, technical constraints. But beneath all of that is one deeper...

Paul Peterson
Dec 16, 20243 min read


The Future of Customer Understanding: Moving Past the Old Playbook
The practice of customer insights is overdue for a seismic shift. Traditional methods of understanding customers are no longer sufficient...

Paul Peterson
Jun 29, 20243 min read
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