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Moving Past the Tweak to Uncover the Optimal
The Quest for Optimal - Maximising consumer delight has always been a top priority for any product manufacturer, resulting in a critical need for ongoing innovation married with endless product modifications. Yet, while a priority, it continues to be increasingly difficult to steal share or truly differentiate oneself versus competition within an existing and/or niche category. Unfortunately, reactive versus proactive research has become more of the product testing norm, with endless rounds of formula ‘tweaking’ versus the prescriptive pursuit of a farther out, more differentiated optimal product.
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Flair Brazil 2015 - Criticism and Progress
Many marketing executives, advertisers and name brand and publicity managers have difficulty understanding the reality of Asia and Latin America. Either they have geographic and economic knowledge, or they have inherited a deformed image, as mirrored in literature and the cinema.
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Flair France 2013 - Shocks And Sanctuaries
“No commitment” could have been the title for 2013; advertisers (and not just telecom operators) certainly presented that option, as though in response to consumers’ mobile, versatile attitude, and their increasingly rapid decision-making. “France 2013, shocks & sanctuaries” expresses the new stakes better.