The Strategic Ikigai Methdology

Buyer Comprehension

A deeper dive into Pillar 3 - Buyer Comprehension - of the Strategic Ikigai methodology

Buyer Comprehension

The Best Positioning Creates Understanding Before Demand Exists

Most companies assume positioning exists to communicate value to a market that already understands the problem. But in emerging categories, the market often does not yet possess stable language for: This changes the role of positioning entirely. Because in immature markets, positioning is not just about differentiation. It is about: helping the market learn how […]

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Buyer Comprehension

Buyer Comprehension Is the Hidden Bottleneck in Enterprise AI

Most discussions about enterprise AI focus on capability. How intelligent the models are.How autonomous the agents are.How much automation becomes possible.How quickly software development accelerates. But many AI initiatives fail long before capability becomes the limiting factor. They fail because organizations struggle to understand: In other words: the bottleneck is often comprehension. Not intelligence. Capability […]

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Buyer Comprehension

The Market Decides What Your Product Is Before You Do

One of the most difficult realities in positioning is that companies do not fully control how the market interprets their product. They influence it.They guide it.They frame it. But markets naturally compress unfamiliar ideas into existing mental models long before they fully understand how the product actually works. This happens constantly in emerging technology markets. […]

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