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Stop Trying to Predict Which New Products Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

One study , of an industrial conglomerate, found that estimates of cost-saving initiatives, line extensions, and new products had average accuracy of of 1.1, respectively, suggesting that market risk is the major driver of our inability to predict. Look at the variance of your new-market products.