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Can Crowdsourcing Help to Break Down the Biggest Obstacle in Market Research?

Qmarkets

So market research was invented. While no method is perfect and companies continued to miss key shifts in customer wants and needs, it’s undeniable that well-executed market research has been very effective at letting companies see over the wall that separates them from their customers and develop innovative new products and services.

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Can Crowdsourcing Help to Break Down the Biggest Obstacle in Market Research?

Qmarkets

So market research was invented. While no method is perfect and companies continued to miss key shifts in customer wants and needs, it’s undeniable that well-executed market research has been very effective at letting companies see over the wall that separates them from their customers and develop innovative new products and services.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

It was close to bankruptcy in the late 1990s with rivals BM, Dell and HP eating up the market. The company had a paltry 4 percent market share and losses of over $1 billion. Market expansion was what Apple needed, not a sizable chunk of the PC market. Controlled innovation has clearly worked. and Apple came back.