Customers are Innovators
The best ideas for a company's product innovation aren't always internal ones. In today's Marketing Xfactor, we share insights from this year's World Innovation Forum, where it was clear customer interaction breeds innovation. Do you engage customers and capture their ideas? Has a customer ever suggested something that made you stop and wonder why no one at your company thought of it first?
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