How do you really understand the buyer’s problem in the adoption process as they go about solving that particular problem. If you think about it, buyers don’t care about technology, products, solutions, services, etc. They start with a painful situation.
Think weight loss. I know I need to lose weight, but the pain of dieting and exercising outweighs the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. UNTIL, doctor tells me I have to do it for critical reasons or I find the pain of living with the extra weight has become more painful than losing the weight. Just because something is important, does not make it urgent. And vice versa, just because something is urgent, doesn’t make it important. The key to adoption is matching what you do to what I want AND need.
Because adoption is really not about product adoption either, it’s really about how buyers measure success and what they have to adapt/adopt to solve the root problem to their pain. Adoption to the buyer is the buyers’ recognition of pain through to resolution of the underlying problem. So the way we’ve been measuring customer experience, in the market today, is how well did I set expectations and how well did I deliver against those expectations. Buyers measure success based upon did it fix the “broken” problem. Not treat the symptoms, not deliver on something I didn’t really need.
