Building new pathways for customer insights to add more value to products

Hi, I’m Jake Burghardt
I help organizations improve their business outcomes by
Aligning their
product development and delivery
Product, marketing, engineering, growth, sales, service, customer support, and other functions
To their customer research assets
UX, market, CX, research science, data science, strategists, customer success or sales analysts, business intelligence, people who do research, and other sources
New book
Stop Wasting Research:
Maximize the Product Impact of Your Organization's Customer Insights
By Jake Burghardt
UX research, market research, data science, CX analysts, and other insight-generators fuel decisions in today’s product organizations—yet many of their most crucial customer insights fail to drive what’s next. Stop Wasting Research identifies root causes for this waste, then explores action ideas to increase the impact of siloed research resources. Use it to enhance collaboration, amplify learning, and drive research-informed launches.
Coming soon: Read an excerpt of book
What people are saying:
“Stop Wasting Research explodes the idea that managing research knowledge is only about building a library or repository. In this first-of-a-kind book, Burghardt redefines the field and offers an abundance of practical ideas for transforming scattered research into a dynamic resource for insight-hungry stakeholders.”
—Kate Towsey, strategic advisor, author of Research That Scales, and founder of the Cha Cha Club"The blueprint I wish I'd had years ago—equipping leaders to build organizations where customer insights are seamlessly integrated into culture and decision-making."
—Michael Nguyen, Head of Customer Intelligence at Enterpret, former Research & Strategy Leader at Figma and Asana"Stop Wasting Research is a must-read for anyone who wants to see their organization's research have a real impact on product development."
—Jenny Blackburn, Vice President of User Experience, Google Deep Mind"A vital resource for anyone looking to power innovation, amplify the voice of the user, and inspire insights into ideas. If you've been wondering how to build the gold standard in research repositories and influence, this book is it."
—Danielle Teska, Executive UX Design & Research Leader, Salesforce

Advising
Need some advice about getting more juice out of your organization’s research?
I have plenty of ideas, experiences, and encouragement to offer!
Schedule a free intro session as sample, then purchase a block of advising time to spend over six months.
Training
Stop Wasting Research 101:
Initiatives to Increase Research Impact in Product Development
Online training that extends the value of the Stop Wasting Research book.
$101 self-paced course currently in development.
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Articles
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Speaking
Internal presentations for your team
If your team places a bulk order for Stop Wasting Research books, I can remotely provide an overview presentation followed by Q+A (contact for details and discount codes).
Podcasts
Currently booking podcast appearances to discuss Stop Wasting Research book topics (contact to discuss). See recent appearances, below.
Webinars and conference sessions
Currently booking remote presentations to discuss Stop Wasting Research book topics (contact for details and discount codes). See recent appearances, below.

Appearances
View list of past appearances in the “Projects” section of my LinkedIn profile.
Contact to discuss appearance opportunities
About
Integrating Research is the consulting office of Jake Burghardt.
Jake’s mission is to shift expectations in the tech industry so that more of the most important product roadmap, prioritization, and design decisions are grounded in research about people and real world systems.
Jake helps organizations drive product value, outcomes, and quality by:
1. Extracting more impact from existing research assets,
2. Achieving a useful mix of new research, and
3. Integrating insights into crucial product decisions.
20+ years experience (Ex Amazon, Microsoft) in product research, vision, planning, design, and experimentation. Focused on collaboratively steering technologies toward people's real needs.
From big tech to niche products, domains I’ve worked on include:
multi-modal AI, global e-commerce, logistics workflow, automated document authoring, power plant operation, “new space race” engineering, cockpit avionics, genetics instrumentation, creative production, and financial trading.
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