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If a company has strong processes in place, managers have flexibility about which employees they put on which assignments—because the process will work regardless of who performs it.
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon
“Jobs thought of himself as an artist, and he encouraged the design team to think of ourselves that way too,” said Hertzfeld. “The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater.”
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
In order to discover an effective solution, the team is responsible for addressing four different types of risks:
• *Value Risk*: will the customer buy our solution, or choose to use it?
• *Viability Risk*: will this solution work for our business? Is it something we can effectively and legally get to market, sell, service, fund, and monetize?
• *Usability Risk*: can the user easily learn, use and perceive the value of the solution?
• *Feasibility Risk*: do we know how to build and scale this solution, with the staff, time, technology, and data we have?