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Make sure you clarify—or decide—what "improve" actually means. For example, it could mean user growth, revenue growth, delight, or enabling a new use case.
Cracking the PM Career
Jackie Bavaro and Gayle McDowell
Delivering an MVP does not mean that the product is bad, simple, incompetent. Do not confuse unfinished with bad, simple with simplistic, incomplete with incompetent. The MVP should be feasible (to be created), easily usable, generate a lot of value and be awesome—“wow!”
Lean Inception
Paulo Caroli
Many companies like to describe themselves as winning through operational effectiveness or customer intimacy. These sound like good ideas, but if they don’t translate into a genuinely lower cost structure or higher prices from customers, they aren’t really strategies worth having.
Playing to Win
A. G. Lafley, Roger Martin, A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin