Visualizing Product & Operating Model Designs

Design Essay #2 - A Visual Essay

Eventuality of Product Landscape in Any Category

Left to right is usually chronological

Sometimes a predatory product can last a long time without proper oversight and lack of motivation and incentives to innovate in the category. Regulatory monopoly is dangerous folks. Let great products heal those wounds that predatory products gave you.

What To Protect?

Products need to be easy to use but difficult to copy?

Mapping Out Users

3 Cycles that Impact Innovation (and to Maintain at all Cost)

When money goes around everywhere, the culture is at its lowest. But technology is maturing to bring about the next wave of culture, which in turn will create more value and therefore more money to be thrown around for the future.

Supply Chain and Customer Experience

The truth is counterfeit and knock-offs are always subtractive to the experience of customers.

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Ok, this is more of a personal take… But the gist is that “counterfeit” and poorer quality knock-off producers can pose some serious branding and quality control risks if they are not contained.

If I bought the real thing, I’d be very very upset if everyone of my friend bought the counterfeit. And if I bought the counterfeit, I might rub it in the face of one friend that bought the real thing. But at home, I might be complaining to my family about how the quality isn’t really that great.

You can’t stop counterfeits and knock-offs. But you can contain it - showing the truth about ethical issues amongst people (buyers, sellers, and those involved in that supply chain) involved with counterfeits/knock-offs; cracking down with the help of the local authority; incentivize a few counterfeit makers who’ve somehow achieved state of being great craftsmen to work for you instead! Sky is the limit here for counter measures.

1. Replace convenience stores with local shops, smaller e-commerce sites, franchise stores, or regional banks. Replace large bookstores with supermarkets, major e-commerce sites, company controlled stores, or large financial institutions.

2. The part that heart covers should say “Normies who are more conservative/risk averse about buying choices.“

3. The diagram does not take into consideration of the complexity of above the surface 2nd-ary market activities. Like used car dealers, 2nd hand clothing stores, outlets, etc…