Breakthrough Zone
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Breakthrough Zone

Harnessing Consumer Creativity for Business Innovation

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eBook - PDF

Breakthrough Zone

Harnessing Consumer Creativity for Business Innovation

About this book

A breakthrough is a discontinuous change that makes new things possible and takes performance in a market to a new level. This book is about creating breakthroughs in large organizations where so much energy is often committed to existing activity. Drawing on their wide experience of working with top companies including British Airways, BUPA, and Carphone Warehouse, Ray Langmaid and Mac Andrews argue that it is customers themselves who are best-placed to conceive great new products and services, but that they will need time and trust to work out how these might best be created. Traditional ways of talking to customers such as focus groups lack honesty and place perceptual barriers - what is needed is a new approach that is open, honest and ongoing. The solution is the Breakthrough Zone, a creative meeting of customer and executives in which desires are unlocked and needs identified. Versatile enough to be used with groups of any size, this process is built on personal relationships, and proven to generate really innovative ideas for brand extensions and product development.
Provides the tools and techniques to enable you to get closer to your customers - a step-by-step guide shows you how to implement the 'Breakthrough Zone' process
Explores why this type of communication is so much more effective than focus groups or traditional database-driven approaches to engaging in customer dialogue
Previous innovations generated in the Breakthrough Zone include BA's 'Beds for Business', BT's 'It's Good to Talk' and new market strategies for VISA and Dell

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Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2004
Print ISBN
9780470855393
eBook ISBN
9780470855928
Edition
1
Subtopic
Marketing

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Chapter 1 On Innovation and How to Use This Book
  4. Chapter 2 Building Your Case
  5. Chapter 3 Resourcing the Breakthrough Zone
  6. Chapter 4 How to Facilitate a Breakthrough Zone Event
  7. Chapter 5 Training the Breakthrough Team
  8. Chapter 6 The Breakthrough Zone
  9. Chapter 7 The Insight Zone
  10. Chapter 8 Dealing with Cultural Resistance
  11. Chapter 9 Winning the Power to Keep Moving
  12. Chapter 10 Beginning the Mission
  13. Chapter 11 Internal Consultations and Final Design
  14. Chapter 12 Prototypes and Customer Experience Testing
  15. Chapter 13 The Mission Plan
  16. Chapter 14 Communication Strategy
  17. Chapter 15 Implementation and Review
  18. Index