The Needs Innovation Model
Keywords: Innovation · Design · Thinking · User Experience · UX Toolbox · Customer Experience
The NI© Needs Innovation Model is a structured customized approach for product and service development.
Is it magic or a jack of all trades? The Needs Innovation Model can best be understood as a combination of various established concepts, models and maps, aiming to provide a holistic and reliable way to achieve long-lasting success on the market. The NI©Model was created to help practitioners gather and assess a comprehensive set of customer needs, thereby determining the critical areas for improvement. In order to identify customer needs and oppor-tunities for value improvement the NI©Model analyses the “Main task & the surrounding journey” that customers are trying to get complete when they use products, services or interact with a company.
The seven steps of the Needs Innovation Model are defined as follows:
- Specify the market and the problem
- Elicit all needs along the journey in a qualitative research
- Quantify needs and ask for satisfaction, importance, KPIs and emotions
- Create the „Needs Prioritization Matrix“ and determine the needs with the highest impact and value
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