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Personal Needs vs. Customer Relationships

Strategy Driven

Some compile complex Customer Relationship Management algorithms to develop and maintain these relationships. People are commonly referred to as ‘buyers,’ ‘shoppers,’ ‘payers,’ ‘non-responders,’ ‘early adopters,’ and ‘eyeballs.’

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What Google “Glassholes” Reveal About Managing Innovation

Harvard Business Review

But a larger global innovation insight here demands top management attention. Innovation increasingly blurs technical and marketing distinctions between “ lead users ” and “early adopters.” That challenges how organizations need to manage, learn from and even brand their first-generation customer communities.