Steve Jobs e le ricerche di mercato – Steve Jobs & market research

Dalla biografia di Steve Jobs emerge con chiarezza la sua presa di distanza dalle ricerche, percepite come totalmente inutili (anche se in realtà in qualche caso, come in occasione dello spot successivo al famoso 1984, sarebbero state decisamente utili!). Ma attenzione: Steve Jobs e la Apple del primo periodo si sono contraddistinti per uno spirito visionario e talmente innovativo che la ricerca avrebbe avuto poco senso… ma al giorno d’oggi, mi spiace contraddire Jobs, di ricerca c’è bisogno eccome…
E poi, “one more thing”: ho fatto ricerche anche per Apple 😉
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From Steve Jobs’ biography his distance from marketing research clearly emerges: to him, focus groups are perceived as useless, a sort of waste of time (even if his story points out how sometimes they could have been really useful!). But Jobs and the first-period-Apple had such an innovative vision that research would not have made any sense… But nowadays, sorry Steve, qualitative research has to be done (many companies really need it).
Finally, “one more thing”… I’ve also had some Apple focus groups 😉