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Customer Needs Sprint
Product ideas are not yet growth opportunities
- Internal ideas show what the company could build.
- Feature requests show what customers can already imagine.
- Broad benefits such as “easier” or “faster” are difficult to compare.
- Investment becomes credible only when the customer job, measurable outcomes and underserved situations are clear.
Use this sprint when the opportunity is still unclear
- The current growth trajectory is not enough, or the next market is unknown.
- Customer feedback exists, but it is dominated by solutions and feature requests.
- Several customer groups use different language for the same problem.
- Data and interviews exist, but they do not yet form a decision basis.
The sprint ends in one clear decision
Which evidenced customer needs and growth opportunities deserve solution search? This step does not choose the final solution. It defines where value must be created before solution creativity is focused.
We begin with the customer’s progress
- Who performs the job, and in which situation?
- What are they trying to achieve?
- How do they measure success?
- Which important outcomes are poorly served?
- Which segment cares most, and what does it do today?
The sprint turns assumptions into comparable opportunities
- Frame existing ideas as hypotheses rather than answers.
- Design the evidence needed to compare customer jobs, outcomes and segments.
- Conduct internal and customer, lost-deal, former-customer or non-user interviews.
- Compare urgency, underserved outcomes, current alternatives and willingness to change.
- Connect the strongest opportunities to company capabilities and one relevant external trigger.
The work produces comparable opportunities
- Growth and value gap
- Decision Evidence Map and explicit evidence gaps
- Customer job map and desired outcomes
- Current alternatives and comparison criteria
- Evidence profile for existing ideas
- 3–7 growth opportunities or live hypotheses linked to company capabilities
- Opportunity comparison, stop/continue rationale and one external trigger
Your team opens the evidence, not just the calendar
- Access to relevant customers, lost deals, former customers or non-users
- Sales, product, technology, delivery and finance participation
- Existing offering, business-model and decision material
- A named executive decision owner
Typical sprint focus
One company or business unit, one growth question, one market or customer field, 5–12 external interviews and existing analyses.
Possible add-ons
- Quantitative ODI survey
- Wider interview sample or a second market
- Win–loss analysis
- Data usability assessment or decision-analysis sprint
- Technology, patent, AI or robotics scenario review
Typical delivery time: 2–4 weeks.
Remion combines customer research with industrial implementation reality
- Jobs-to-be-Done and outcome-led customer research
- Business, data and technology evidence in the same decision map
- Industrial B2B experience from opportunity framing to implementation
- No handover gap between advisory and the next step
The decision gate protects the next sprint
At the end, management decides which opportunities move into solution search, which remain hypotheses and which should stop.
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