Selling Blue Elephants : How to make great products that people want BEFORE they even know they want them

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Can you remember the world before the iPod? How about the world before chunky tomato sauce or brown mustard? Many of these products came about not through focus groups and polling, but rather through research and development labs and marketers developing the products they knew customers would want, before customers knew they wanted them. Today your customers can actually help you create your next product. Rule Developing Experimentation (RDE) is a solution-oriented learning experience. RDE is the systematized process of designing, testing and modifying alternative ideas, packages, products, or services in a disciplined way so that the developer and marketer discover what appeals to the customer, evenif the customer can’t articulate the need, much less the solution. The book begins by presenting best practices in the RDE from some of today’s top companies: HP, Prego, Vlasic, and Mastercard. It then goes on to examine RDEs use in innovation and design, and goes on to examine its possible uses in the international, political, bioinformantics, and finance areas. Filled with real-life stories, this book will change the way people think about selling to their present and future customers.For Sale in Indian subcontinent onlyFeaturesCreating new ideas just became easier, because customers can help create the next big product. Learn how with this book. From credit cards to tomato sauce to printers, this book will help companies understand which products, and which marketing messages, their buyers will respond to. The author is the person who literally created the mustard shelf and let sellers and buyers know there was life beyond the bright yellow version. Examines both established uses of RDE as well as revolutionary uses. ContentsINTRODUCTION MAKING MONEY HEWLETT-PACKARD SHIFTS GEARSMAXWELL HOUSE’S CALCULUS OF COFFEEDIALING UP DELICIOUS: MAJOR DISCOVERIES FROM VLASIC AND PREGOHOW TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL GOOD EVEN WHEN THEY PAY MOREDISCOVER MORE ABOUT YOUR COMPETITORS THAN THEY THEMSELVES KNOW—LEGALLY! MAKING THE FUTURE RUBIK’S CUBE OF CONSUMER ELECTRONICS INNOVATION BRIDGING COOL DESIGN WITH HOT SCIENCE FLYING TO VENUS MIND GENOMICS: CONSUMER MIND “ON THE SHELF” MAKING THE PRESIDENT AND PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS INTO “PRODUCTS” RDE DEFEATS MURPHY’S LAW AND “BARES” THE STOCK MARKETS ASIA CALLING, LTD.: THE CHINA ANGLERDE’S “BRAVE NEW WORLD!”EPILOGUE INDEX