{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"EP050: Jim Kalbach on Designing Web Navigation and Mapping Experiences","description":"Jim Kalbach is a noted author, speaker, and instructor in user experience design, information architecture, and strategy. He is currently the Head of Consulting and Education with MURAL, a leading online whiteboard for digital collaboration. Previously, Jim has worked with large companies, such as Audi, SONY, Elsevier Science, Lexis Nexis, Citrix, and eBay, among others. Jim Kalbach authored #1 Amazon Business Development Bestseller, Mapping Experiences: A Guide to Creating Value Through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams.   Key Takeaways: [1:05] Jim Kalbach never worried about what title was on his business card. His focus is on facilitating big-picture, strategic conversations. [3:36] Jim marries the idea of design information architecture with visualizing strategy in Chapter Three of Mapping Experiences. [5:46] Customer-centric thinking is a fundamental shift in the way business gets done. [8:54] Business leaders can use customer journey mapping, or experience mapping, to create a visualization. [11:04] Blue Ocean Strategy gets to the core of why an organization exists, and what value they are creating. [16:35] Organizations must look at strategy as a creative endeavour. [23:36] Unpacking Clayton Christensen's Jobs to Be Done framework. [29:16] Jim Kalbach\u2019s view of Jobs to Be Done has six dimensions and goes well beyond task analysis. [34:03] With business strategy, deciding what you're not going to do is as important as deciding what you are going to do.   Mentioned in This Episode: Mapping Experiences: A Guide to Creating Value Through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams, by Jim Kalbach Experiencing Information @jimkalbach on Twitter Praxent @PraxentSoftware on Twitter ","author_name":"Commanding Business","author_url":"http:\/\/praxent.com\/commandingbusiness","html":"