The Umami Strategy: Stand Out by Mixing Business with Experience Design

The Umami Strategy: Stand Out by Mixing Business with Experience Design

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  • Create Date:2021-04-14 14:51:02
  • Update Date:2025-09-06
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  • Author:Aga Szóstek
  • ISBN:9063695799
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Summary

Creating a unique value for your customers is crucial if you want to differentiate in an overcrowded market。 To do so, you need to define a powerful strategy that determines consistent action across your organization to deliver your unique flavor。 Szóstek describes this strategy as umami, which is the fifth category of taste (besides sweet, sour, salt and bitter), and gives an exceptional flavor to your food。

How do you build a powerful yet actionable strategy, and successfully implement it across your organization? Many leaders, marketers and designers try to answer these questions。 The Umami Strategy proposes a novel approach that will help you build and execute an experience strategy。 The model used in the book allows you to (a) find out what stories your customers are telling today; (b) uncover motivators and demotivators that guide these stories; (c) envision the ideal future experience you want to deliver; (d) define the actionable measures that will ensure progress toward that vision; and (e) evaluate that progress through future customer stories。

Enjoyable, practical and full of hidden gems and tips, this book will help you get your organization to align with building a unique market value through delivering memorable experiences to your customers。 Because to be noticed, you need to stand out of the crowd。

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Reviews

Rob Tillaart

Umami is the name of a flavor described first about a century ago in Japan。 It is something that adds extra taste to food。 The idea of the author is to add such an extra motivating flavor to the design of products and services so it stands out。In my opinion the book elaborates on the work of the "Blue Ocean Strategy" by Renée Mauborgne and W。 Chan Kim。 The added value of the Umami Strategy is that the author gives more practical explanation how to investigate product satisfaction and how to find Umami is the name of a flavor described first about a century ago in Japan。 It is something that adds extra taste to food。 The idea of the author is to add such an extra motivating flavor to the design of products and services so it stands out。In my opinion the book elaborates on the work of the "Blue Ocean Strategy" by Renée Mauborgne and W。 Chan Kim。 The added value of the Umami Strategy is that the author gives more practical explanation how to investigate product satisfaction and how to find and define the extra "umami cherry" on top of the cake。The book is imho useful for bachelor and master level design and marketing。 I can imagine this book becomes mandatory read in these educations。Another important group that might benefit from the book are the people in startups that create new products by technology push。 These are typically found on crowd funding platforms。 The book will help startups to see how to explicitly differentiate their product from the competition。 As consumers get less interested in underlying tech, which has become a commodity, the difference between a good and an amazing product or service will be essential for startups to bridge the gap to larger markets。As a non native English speaker I find the book very readable and accessible。 The examples given are well worked out and the graphics although simple do support the story。 Like the book so much I already bought a copy for a friend。 。。。more

Michael

It used to be enough to create a fairly good product, mix it with a competitive price and tell the marketing department to shout out。 Times have changed - nowadays you are not selling a product anymore。 You sell an experience with your product, the product changes the customer, inspires and elevates her and lets her be part of another story。 This is soo much more than product selling。This book shows you how to combine your business and the experience for the customer。 It builds bridges to connec It used to be enough to create a fairly good product, mix it with a competitive price and tell the marketing department to shout out。 Times have changed - nowadays you are not selling a product anymore。 You sell an experience with your product, the product changes the customer, inspires and elevates her and lets her be part of another story。 This is soo much more than product selling。This book shows you how to combine your business and the experience for the customer。 It builds bridges to connect fields that have seldom been connected before - but the traffic over these bridges will be enormous in the future。 This book will be an eyeopener if you want to align your strategy with todays business。 It will help you to connect back to the shifted values of the customers and in the end make your company more successful than others。 。。。more

Anthony

Learning to see our everyday world with fresh eyes is one of the most difficult challenges we can ask of ourselves。 Aga's writing profoundly and permanently shift my perspective。 These pages contain that same magic - a special invitation to see the splendor of this reality through Aga’s extraordinary lens。 Learning to see our everyday world with fresh eyes is one of the most difficult challenges we can ask of ourselves。 Aga's writing profoundly and permanently shift my perspective。 These pages contain that same magic - a special invitation to see the splendor of this reality through Aga’s extraordinary lens。 。。。more

Judith Volker

A philosophy that every entrepreneur should use as his base to build on。This is one of the most valuable books I have read and worked with recently。 This book is setting the tone for the new standard。 'Just' selling a product is since long an outdated concept。The client wants to know more, feel more, being part of a story, being part of an amazing experience。 The customer wants to get inspired and belonging to, the book is guiding you to find the right recipe for your organisation。I can recomman A philosophy that every entrepreneur should use as his base to build on。This is one of the most valuable books I have read and worked with recently。 This book is setting the tone for the new standard。 'Just' selling a product is since long an outdated concept。The client wants to know more, feel more, being part of a story, being part of an amazing experience。 The customer wants to get inspired and belonging to, the book is guiding you to find the right recipe for your organisation。I can recommand it for everyone who wants to formulate an aligned strategy for nowadays business。 As we all know that the values of customers are shifting and companies have to think beyond their established standards to convince their target。Umami Strategy is bringing you back to some ground principles of how I can not only replying to a customers need, also to excel in every field and he gets an outstanding experience in the end。 Umami Strategy is for all people who are interested to rethink their own business or setting up a new one。 The book is easy to understand for translating the theory into a practice case。 That makes this book so unique in the way it bridges this and why it helps me so much。 。。。more

Iza Ławniczak

An excellent book for design strategy practitioners。

Tomasz Skórski

Aga Szóstek did something extraordinary: she wrote a short, insightful and practical book on the experiences for business folks: sponsors, business owners, product managers and product owners。 Her book has got firm ground in science (over 250 references!) and is based on the work of such authors as Marc Hassenzahl, Noam Tractinsky and Daniel Kahneman。 Luckily, she knows and how to explain complex and complicated ideas in a simple and engaging way。The book consists of three main parts。 In the fir Aga Szóstek did something extraordinary: she wrote a short, insightful and practical book on the experiences for business folks: sponsors, business owners, product managers and product owners。 Her book has got firm ground in science (over 250 references!) and is based on the work of such authors as Marc Hassenzahl, Noam Tractinsky and Daniel Kahneman。 Luckily, she knows and how to explain complex and complicated ideas in a simple and engaging way。The book consists of three main parts。 In the first part she explains how to discover a competitive advantage basing on experience design。 The second part describes how to implement a strategy for product experiences and how to build metrics for them。 The last one shows how to maintain and improve experiences over time。 I find the second part the most insightful。 It is stuffed with techniques and almost ready-to-use templates for workshops and meetings。 If you are a product or business manager, I definitely believe you will find this book invaluable。 。。。more

Kasia Nowak

I recommend Aga's book to everyone who has any interest in strategy, not only experience strategy, but business strategy in general。 The book balances the amount of theoretical knowledge with great actionable tools。 It certainly will make me come back to it often in the future。 At the same time it is very rich and well written。 Excellent work。 I recommend Aga's book to everyone who has any interest in strategy, not only experience strategy, but business strategy in general。 The book balances the amount of theoretical knowledge with great actionable tools。 It certainly will make me come back to it often in the future。 At the same time it is very rich and well written。 Excellent work。 。。。more