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Why Great New Products Fail

March 15, 2016 | Duncan Simester | Innovation

Many innovative new products don't succeed. One common reason: Companies don't focus on understanding how customers make purchase decisions. But paying attention to how customers search for information about what to buy, and how they make guesses about details they can’t easily find, helps predict whether customers will embrace certain product innovations. Companies need to focus on innovations that customers will easily recognize or find ways to alert them to innovations they may not detect on their own.

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