Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Specify the Outputs, Not the Inputs | Thought Leadership Leverage

Specify the Outputs, Not the Inputs | Thought Leadership Leverage

When we create outlines for business, engineering, life-hack or any other processes what ratio of time do we spend thinking about the desired outcome when compared to the process steps or procedure?

My guess and subjective recollection is that we tend to get mired down in the details of How-to-do instead of Why-we-do or Where-we-want-to-go.

This question posed by Peter Winick in a recent blog post, stirred for me a recent hornets nest of activity where we have been spending many hour discussing and defining the "beneficial outcomes" that arise when people use our software, and what other beneficial outcomes they might need to complete their job. And funny enough it turns out that our product development has been focused very much on the what and not the why.

Thanks Peter.

1 comment:

Peter Winick said...

Glad you liked it.

Regards,

Peter Winick
www.thoughtleadershipleverage.com