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Last week I wrote about my 7-step CatSight Process for Insight Development. The first step is to identify the Category in which you are competing. I got so many comments about this step that I decided to dedicate a whole post to this important topic. If you haven’t yet had the chance to read last week’s post ( “Customer Centricity is Today’s Business Disruptor, Insights its Foundation”) I suggest you do this first, as background to this post.
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