The Code.
Your Operating Playbook for Business Success

The Code.
Your Operating Playbook for Business Success

Discover how to turn ideas into profitable actions, optimize your internal processes, and create real value for customers and partners. This guide offers a step-by-step framework to help you grow your business by focusing on operational efficiency, customer understanding, and proven strategies for sustainable profit growth. Each page is designed to guide you in transforming challenges into opportunities.

Discover how to turn ideas into profitable actions, optimize your internal processes, and create real value for customers and partners. This guide offers a step-by-step framework to help you grow your business by focusing on operational efficiency, customer understanding, and proven strategies for sustainable profit growth. Each page is designed to guide you in transforming challenges into opportunities.

The Code.
Your Operating Playbook for Business Success

Discover how to turn ideas into profitable actions, optimize your internal processes, and create real value for customers and partners. This guide offers a step-by-step framework to help you grow your business by focusing on operational efficiency, customer understanding, and proven strategies for sustainable profit growth.

What’s Inside the Guide?

What’s Inside the Guide?

A complete framework for your business success. This guide is divided into two essential parts, offering practical solutions to better understand your customers and optimize your business.

How to Optimize your Internal Processes to Understand Your Clients And Better Serve Them

How to Optimize your Internal Processes to Understand Your Clients And Better Serve Them

The first part focuses on the customer experience—who they are, the journey they take to find your products and services, and how they feel throughout this journey. You’ll also learn how to organize your business internally to deliver services quickly and efficiently.

How To Build Better Relationships With Employees And Partners

The second part is dedicated to creating value for customers. Here you’ll discover how to understand customers' willingness to pay and how to increase it, while also learning how to reduce employees’ and suppliers’ willingness to sell through better relationship and resource optimization.

The guide covers concepts such as economies of scale and the learning curve—key business elements that may seem advanced but are simple and easy to implement.

Training and Expertise: What Sets Us Apart

The Code is the result of over 15 years of direct experience in mid- to large-sized businesses, built upon the best practices and internationally recognized research.

Methodologies taught at Harvard Business School Online

These methodologies are used to develop and optimize successful companies globally, helping them refine internal processes, create customer value, and achieve sustainable growth.

Expertise from Nielsen Norman Group

The world leader in user experience and customer-centric design, Nielsen Norman Group’s insights are integrated to help you create an exceptional customer experience.

The author has a Master UX certification for Nielsen Norman Gorup (NNg) and has a certification in Business Strategy from Harvard Business School Online.

About the author

Raluca Neagu is an expert with over 15 years of experience in product management, user experience (UX), and service design. She has worked with technology companies in the United States and the UK, contributing to the growth and development of businesses worth millions of $.

Raluca honed her skills at prestigious institutions like Harvard Business School Online (Business Strategy) and the Nielsen Norman Group (Mater UX Certified). With extensive experience in sectors such as SaaS, cloud technology, and artificial intelligence, she specializes in optimizing customer journeys and developing strategies that enhance user experiences and drive company growth.

In her previous roles, such as VP of Growth at Gigster, she helped overcome the revenue goals by 30% in just one quarter, thanks to some savvy strategy moves. And at MindsDB, she was the driving force behind founding the Product Department, leading to significant business growth. Over at ESW Capital with Crossover for Work she was the mastermind behind digital marketing growth strategies that significantly lifted conversion rates and revenue across a portfolio of B2B companies.

She currently helps SMG, the well known, 30+years USA-based CX company with their Product Management & UX needs while running her own tiny show called The Invisible Design, a place for writings on topics like Product Management and Philosophy.

Raluca Neagu is an expert with over 15 years of experience in product management, user experience (UX), and service design. She has worked with technology companies in the United States and the UK, contributing to the growth and development of businesses exceeding $160 million in revenue.

As VP of Growth at Gigster, she helped overcome the revenue goals by 30% in just one quarter, thanks to some savvy strategy moves. And at MindsDB, she was the driving force behind founding the Product Department, leading to significant business growth. Lastly, over at ESW Capital with Crossover for Work, she was the mastermind behind digital marketing growth strategies that significantly lifted conversion rates and revenue across a portfolio of B2B companies.

She currently helps SMG, the well known, 30+years USA-based CX company with their Product Management & UX needs.

Benefits You’ll Gain

What You Will Learn

A Comprehensive, Actionable Plan for Growing Your Business

The Basics of Service Design: Research, Client Journeys, Mapping Your Internal Process

The Basics of Service Design: Research, Client Journeys, Mapping Your Internal Process

This guide offers tested solutions that bring together key business aspects: customer understanding, internal process optimization, and improving relationships with employees and partners. You’ll have access to a global framework that empowers you to overcome challenges and grow sustainably.

Learn to understand your customers, their needs, and how to organize your internal systems to meet those needs effectively. Create messaging that resonates and drives sales.

Learn to understand your customers, their needs, and how to organize your internal systems to meet those needs effectively. Create messaging that resonates and drives sales.

Simple, Effective Solutions for Complex Problems

Principles of Emotional Marketing: Ethically Leverage Emotions to Boost Sales

Principles of Emotional Marketing: Ethically Leverage Emotions to Boost Sales

Basics of Business Strategy: How To Increase The Willingness to Buy of Your Clients

Basics of Business Strategy: How To Increase The Willingness to Buy of Your Clients

If you feel overwhelmed by daily challenges and decisions, this ebook provides clear and actionable solutions to help you navigate obstacles without unnecessary complexity. Whether it's optimizing your team, reducing costs, or attracting new clients, you’ll learn how to tackle each problem with a concrete, ready-to-implement plan.

Emotions drive buying decisions. Learn how to ethically harness this with techniques inspired by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and Don Norman, the pioneer of UX and emotional design.


Emotions drive buying decisions. Learn how to ethically harness this with techniques inspired by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and Don Norman, the pioneer of UX and emotional design.

Gain insights into how to determine your clients to love your product so much that they are willing to pay more, but also how to work with your suppliers so that they can offer their services at a lower cost.

Gain insights into how to determine your clients to love your product so much that they are willing to pay more, but also how to work with your suppliers so that they can offer their services at a lower cost.

What You Will Learn


The Basics of Service Design: Research, Client Journeys, Mapping Your Internal Process

Learn to understand your customers, their needs, and how to organize your internal systems to meet those needs effectively. Create messaging that resonates and drives sales.

Principles of Emotional Marketing: Ethically Leverage Emotions to Boost Sales

Emotions drive buying decisions. Learn how to ethically harness this with techniques inspired by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and Don Norman, the pioneer of UX and emotional design.

Basics of Business Strategy: How To Increase The Willingness to Buy of Your Clients

Gain insights into how to determine your clients to love your product so much that they are willing to pay more, but also how to work with your suppliers so that they can offer their services at a lower cost.

Why Is This eBook Different?

Connects Strategies from Multiple Disciplines for Great Results

This guide is unique because it offers a complete view of your business, combining insights from different domains into a global framework that addresses all critical aspects.

Client-Centric – Focusing on the Value You Offer to Customers

Long-term success comes when you consistently deliver real value to your customers. This guide helps you understand your clients' needs and desires more deeply.

Strategies to Improve Employee and Supplier Relationships

Learn how to improve your relationships with employees to build an efficient team, as well as how to collaborate better with suppliers and partners.

Sounds good?

Sounds good?