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How to Position Your Innovation in the Marketplace

December 19, 2013 | Glen Schmidt, Bo van der Rhee | Innovation

Should a new product or service launch at the high end of the market and move downward or at the low end and move up? In truth, there's no one-size-fits-all approach for entering the market, but a new research-based framework helps identify the best strategy for a particular product or service. The two key questions to ask: Is the basic functionality of the new offering better or worse than that of existing competitive products? And how groundbreaking are the novel attributes of the new product?

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