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Use Strategic Market Models to Predict Customer Behavior
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By David E. Schnedler
Spring 1996
Reprint 3737
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Volume 37, Number 3, pages 85-92, 8 pages
Primary Topic: Corporate Strategy
SummaryPositioning products in a complex market can be one of a company's most difficult decisions. In determining whether to combine or maintain separate product lines, Hewlett-Packard used an approach it calls strategic market modeling (SMM) to design "what if" scenarios and run simulations to predict market behavior. SMM combines demographic, user needs, and competitive perception data into a database for testing alternative positioning strategies. The author describes HP's development of SMM and the lessons learned. |
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