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Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?

Harvard Business Review

To see customers as the assets they really are, the strategic design and marketing question must shift from "What's the new value of the innovation?" George Eastman didn't just create cheap new cameras and films; he created photographers. Call it "customer kaizen.". to "What does our innovation really ask customers to become?"

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Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?

Harvard Business Review

To see customers as the assets they really are, the strategic design and marketing question must shift from "What's the new value of the innovation?" George Eastman didn't just create cheap new cameras and films; he created photographers. Call it "customer kaizen.". to "What does our innovation really ask customers to become?"