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Blueprinting Center & Methodology
What is New Product Blueprinting?
How is Blueprinting learned and applied?
Blueprinting Center
Blueprinting E-Learning Course
How can I become Certified in New Product Blueprinting?
How does Blueprinting fit with a stage-and-gate process?
How does Blueprinting fit with strategic planning?
How does Blueprinting fit with Design Thinking?
How does Blueprinting fit with Lean Startup?
How does Blueprinting fit with Minesweeper de-risking?
How does Blueprinting fit with LaunchStar product launch?
What innovation metrics should we use?
What is "Jobs-to-be-Done?"
Blueprinter® Software
Getting Started
FAQs / General Questions
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Software Security and Setup
Blueprinting Executive Dashboard
Technical Issues
Blueprinter Updates
Market Segmentation (Step 1)
How to conduct secondary market research
How to engage industry experts
How to segment markets
How to select your target market segment
“How B2B” is your market segment?
Discovery Interviews (Step 2)
How to plan Discovery interviews
Preparing your interview team
Convincing customers to be interviewed
How to handle confidential info in an interview
How to conduct a Discovery interview
Finding & using a digital projector for interviews
How to conduct a customer tour
How to debrief & follow-up a Discovery interview
Engaging your sales colleagues in interviews
Engaging distributors in interviews
Interviewing customers down the value chain
How to interview remotely with web-conferences
How to interview at trade shows & other venues
Interviewing in different global cultures & languages
How to listen well during customer interviews
How to probe during customer interviews
How to gather economic data during interviews
How to create & use Current State questions
How to identify Must Haves (MH)
How to select Top Picks (TP)
How to use Trigger Maps
How to form Outcome Statements
Preference Interviews (Step 3)
How to prepare for Preference interviews
How to schedule Preference interviews
How to conduct a Preference interview
How to analyze your Preference data
How to build your Market Case
Rest of Blueprinting (Steps 4-7)
How to build & use a value calculator
Blueprinting Step 4: Side-by-side testing
Blueprinting Step 5: Product Objectives
Blueprinting Step 6: Technical Brainstorming
Blueprinting Step 7: Business Case
Everyday VOC
Overview of Everyday VOC
Everyday VOC probing skills
When to employ Everyday VOC
After your Everyday VOC call
Minesweeper® De-risking
What is Minesweeper Project De-risking?
Step 1. Brainstorm Assumptions
Step 2. Consumption Chain
Step 3. Individual Ratings
Step 4. Team Ratings
Step 5. Review Certainty Matrix
Step 6. CheckPoint Plan
Step 7. Management Report
BlueHelp® Knowledge Center
Blueprinting Center & Methodology
Training, Blueprinting Center, and how Blueprinting fits with other systems.
Blueprinter® Software
How-to tips & videos: Your first stop for all Blueprinter software questions!
Market Segmentation (Step 1)
Secondary research, industry experts, market segmentation... and B2B Index.
Discovery Interviews (Step 2)
Dozens of in-depth articles to fine-tune your Discovery interview skills.
Preference Interviews (Step 3)
Preparing, conducting & analyzing Preference interviews + Market Case.
Rest of Blueprinting (Steps 4-7)
Value calculators, side-by-side testing, solution brainstorming & Business Case.
Everyday VOC
Turn every customer interaction into actionable insight
Minesweeper® De-risking
Detect & defuse project 'landmines' with Minesweeper software