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Creative Fire Extinguisher #3: Expect Customers To Be The Visionaries

May 17th, 2007

by Fred H. Schlegel.

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Customers tend to come up with – and understand – incremental improvements. Important, but potentially a trail straight towards a cliff. Radical new concepts tend to fly under the radar, accepted by a few early adopters or as a solution to a niche problem until suddenly it makes sense in a wider context. So what [...]

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