Monday 25 June 2012

A Faster Horse

Gotta love Steve...

Don’t be a focus- group slave

When Jobs took his original Macintosh team on its first retreat, one member asked whether they should do some market research to see what customers wanted. “No,” Jobs replied, “because customers don’t know what they want until we’ve shown them.” He invoked Henry Ford’s line: “If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!’”

Read this on the plane to India...see the whole Fin Review article here...


A Faster Horse

Kevin Coffey

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