Outcome Oriented

Steve Jobs

 

Outcome oriented or result oriented is used to describe a person or an  organization that only focuses on result rather than how does the process is going to run on produce the product or deliver services.

A successful entrepreneur who has this characteristic was Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was a genius American successful entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor. He also was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Sunil Maheshwari (2014) said that Steve Jobs drew a two-by-two grid after some weeks of product review sessions in 1997. At the top of two columns, he wrote “Consumer” and “Professional”. He labelled the two rows as “Desktop” and “Portable.” Steve Jobs only told his team members, this is their job and only focus on this four great products - one for each quadrant. The rest should be abandoned.

But, by getting Apple to focus on making just four computers, he saved the company. “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do,” he believed. (Sunil Maheshwari, 2014) But in the end, for something this complicated, it's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them, said by Steven Job (1998).  Mui (2011), he also mentioned in Forbes that Steve Jobs had told his team, never ask customers what they want because they never know what they want. Steve Jobs and his team find out what they want without direct ask them. Steve Jobs believe the products are the best result to let customers know what they want. Therefore, they kept on inventing creative and innovative products. “Stay Hunger, Stay Foolish”, said by Steve Job (2005). He meant to his team, never be satisfied and always push yourself and do the things that peoples say cannot be done or impossible. In 2007, I-Phone first generation was successful introduce to market. Steve Jobs was die on 5 Oct 2011, but his spirit also being remembered by everyone of his team.