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Use Intuition for Innovation Just Like Apple and Target

Leapfrogging

Apple never did formal market research to tell them what to do. Steve Jobs once said, “We do no market research. Robyn Waters, the former vice president of trend, design and product development, once told me the same thing. Many people debate the merits of data analysis versus intuition.

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Creating New "Benefit Delivery Vehicles"

Innovation in Practice

For that, you need to do a detailed comparison of how your product compares to the competition's, feature by feature. . You’ll also need to do a customer analysis, especially on what factors are most important to customers when they buy a product as well as how they perceive your brand versus the competition.

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Looking For Ways To Finance Your Business? You Can If You Plan!

The Human Factor

Things like product development and manufacturing certainly don’t come cheap. Not to mention that any business needs to pile a fair amount into things like marketing. A breakeven analysis. This is especially useful as it provides a direct comparison with an existing company. Not at all. An expenses budget.

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Driving Success: Managing Risk Across 3 Key Automotive Areas

Planview

These key areas are: Product Development Capital Expenditures (CapEx) Marketing Through this exploration, we will highlight the significance of balancing long-term vision and short-term objectives, considering various assumptions, scenarios, and interdependencies within the automotive landscape. Yet, challenges abound.

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Creating a brand that lasts.

Mike Shipulski

One of the best ways to improve your brand is to improve your products. Usually it’s a straightforward battle between market leaders, where one claims quantifiable benefit over the other – Ours gets 40 mpg and theirs doesn’t. But there’s a more powerful way to improve your brand, and that’s to map your products to reliability.

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Is it novel?

Mike Shipulski

But when an up-start outsider enters the market back-to-front, the wheels fall off. When they develop useful newness before you and sell it to your customers (new customers for them), that’s not good. Start with a functional analysis of your state-of-the-art. The model works well as long as everyone in the industry follows it.