Most B2B segmentation looks great on a slide—but fails in the real world. After interviewing dozens of finance and reporting leaders, a simple truth emerged: people don’t buy because of their ICP profile; they buy because of the moment they’re in. Traditional segmentation ignores the struggling moments, triggers, and thresholds that actually drive decisions. This article explains why most segmentation frameworks break—and how identifying your Minimum Viable Segment (MVS) transforms pipeline, messaging, and growth.
Your Company Bought a Luxury Gym. Your Competition Is Pounding the Pavement.
Corporate innovation is broken. It looks impressive—labs, consultants, and glossy brochures—but nobody’s actually sweating. In this provocative post, we compare today's innovation efforts to a luxury gym membership: all equipment, no results. Drawing from Jobs to Be Done, Lean Startup, and real-world experience with Fortune 500s, this article shows how to stop admiring the tools and start doing the work that actually gets your company fit to compete.
From Trap to Transformation: The 6 Pitfalls Holding CMOs Back — and the 5 Roles You Must Now Master
Discover the six traps sabotaging modern marketing teams—and how the new Centaur CMO mindset, powered by AI and the IMPACT transformation Playbook, offers a real path to faster, scalable growth. A preview of Emmanuel Obadia’s VivaTech 2025 session.
From High-Growth Startups to Enterprise Giants: The Scaling Lessons No One Teaches You
From scaling startups to transforming enterprise teams, this post explores the frameworks, methodologies, and tools—such as OKRs, Lean Startup, and IMPACT—that help leaders drive growth with clarity. Learn how the combination of vision, strategy, and AI-powered insights can guide your organization towards success.
Revolutionizing B2B: How JTBD and Generative AI Unlock Customer Success
Unlock the future of B2B sales and marketing with the Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) framework and Generative AI. This post explores how to decode customer motivations, tackle the Four Forces of Progress, and align messaging for maximum impact. Featuring actionable steps and real-world examples from QuickBooks and Intercom, learn how to transform customer challenges into opportunities and deliver lasting value. Ready to revolutionize your approach?
Unlocking SaaS Potential: Harnessing Jobs to Be Done and Strategic Pricing for Maximum Impact
The Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) framework and strategic pricing are vital for SaaS companies to develop targeted solutions, resonant messaging, and compelling value propositions. By understanding core customer needs, companies can align product features and pricing models, creating meaningful connections and driving sustainable growth. Pricing strategies including value-based pricing, tiered pricing, freemium models, outcome-driven pricing, and dynamic pricing can maximize revenue potential and customer satisfaction. Successful implementation of these strategies is exemplified by companies like Slack and HubSpot.
Top 10 SaaS Go-To-Market Mistakes: A Founder’s Guide to Success
A critical mistake founders make is hiring a VP of Sales who cannot independently demo the product from day one - if they need an engineer or solutions architect to run the demo, do not make that hire. Other pitfalls include misaligning marketing hires like bringing on product marketers expecting them to drive demand gen, founders exiting sales prematurely even with an experienced sales leader, slashing marketing budgets to zero which starves the pipeline, ignoring disruptive AI trends that competitors are embracing, prioritizing short-term profitability over maintaining a growth rate above 30%, hiring fractional or bitter talent lacking full commitment, hiring for prestigious logos over true startup skills fit, expecting instant ROI from longer-term marketing efforts like brand building, and turning customer success into an upsell team at the expense of retention and satisfaction
Emmanuel Obadia & Partners | Transform & Innovate 