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How do big companies compete with quick, small competitors?

February 4, 2015

They focus on customer value.

McKinsey says that leading companies combine insights about customers, competitors, and costs to develop more innovative and cost-effective products.

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Excerpted from McKinsey Quarterly’s, “Designing products for value”

A rising tide of prosperity in developing economies is reshaping the nature of competition. Recognizing the challenges of the new environment, a few product makers … are taking a different approach.

Here are some examples:

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