One problem: Given that we know that a majority of new products fail in the market, unwavering fixation looks like a bad bet.
Policymakers repudiate market discipline regularly, such as with, say, federal deposit insurance, rebuilding beachfront homes at taxpayer rather than insurer expense, and indemnifying makers of homeland security technologies when their products fail.
In a world where perhaps 93% of new products eventually fail, some high tech products disappear without finding a problem to solve.
And products that fail the green test could remain in warehouses or languishing on store shelves.
FORBES: Are You Singing the Praises of Efficient IT? If Not, You Should Be
"There is no food safety issue, but the mislabelling of products means they fail to meet the very high standards consumers expect from us, " the statement said.
BBC: Nestle removes beef pasta meals after finding horsemeat
Having used various other products and watching them fail, I do not view all screen protectors as being the same.
Inevitably, some products are going to fail the criteria needed to achieve an EcoLogo -- McDougall once had to politely reject a bid wanting organic cigarettes certified -- but he says in most cases that TerraChoice has studied there was not a malicious attempt to mislead.
The best Data teams think of their solutions as products and allow themselves to fail fast until they get it.
Now for something really scary: Almost 90% of more than 15, 000 products introduced this year will fail, according to trade publication New Product News.
If past experience is a guide, most of the new products Roche has licensed may fail to prove both safe and effective in humans.
Enlightened public health experts in the region, and elsewhere, had hoped that the new TPD would ease these restrictions, given the clear evidence of its efficacy in reducing the harm of tobacco, while the approved products for helping smokers quit fail over 90 percent of the time.
FORBES: The EU's New Tobacco Directive: Protecting Cigarette Markets, Killing Smokers
Another part of planned obsolescence is when the products you buy are designed to fail after a certain amount of time.
Morgan Stanley is being sued by Singapore investment company Hong Leong Finance over claims it sold financial products that were "designed to fail".
This type of ecosystem behaviour is increasingly characterised as fail fast fail cheap, a Darwinian process where projects fail in order that management can refine products and objectives.
It changes the way consumers find and value products, so companies must either harness technology to build the programs, products and services that consumers are demanding, or they fail.
FORBES: Help Your Organization Embrace The New Norm Of Disruption
But manufactures claim that supermarkets fail to offer the right setting for their products and argue staff may not be able to give customers relevant advice on their goods.
The time to fail is not in front of customers with finished products.
FORBES: 6 Top Takeaways From Forrester's Forum For Marketing Leaders
Christensen's 1997 book, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, describes how new, low-quality products can threaten established ones--such as Nintendo toy cameras threatening mighty Kodak.
In the Republic, the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, said the Ireland's reputation as an exporter of high-quality meat products was being harmed and the main opposition party, Fianna Fail, has called for an independent inquiry.
Products that miss the sweet spot by arriving too early or too late, often fail miserably.
Clickfree's entire lineup of products is designed for the 85 to 95 percent of computer users who, research shows, fail to regularly backup content on their PCs because they do not have the time, desire or skill to install, set up and use confusing or complex software and hardware products.
ENGADGET: Clickfree gone wild at CES: 1TB drive, Mac support and online backup
Of the 36, 000-plus new products that will hit the shelves in the U.S. this year, 80% will fail, says New Product News.
Should they fail, the trust's chairman is threatening to campaign for a boycott of all British products in Kenya.
应用推荐