How to Innovate Through Scarcity


How do you innovate and grow in the face of dramatically shrinking customer budgets?
A conventional response to cost pressures is to compromise standards believing that ‘cheaper’ should mean ‘less good’. And while competitors do the same in a shrinking market, with fewer customers it’s a race to the bottom and no one ‘wins’.
There is another way – the ‘scarcity’ mindset. By flipping the script, and taking a fresh perspective on customer’s motivations and barriers in your category, we can better understand how their needs have changed (beyond price) and systematically develop solutions that meet their needs today.
Not just ‘lower cost, less good’.
The 4A’s is an actionable framework you can use to better understand customers and their changing needs; and to create tangible solutions to grow despite tough economic conditions. This guide provides an introduction to the framework and how you can use it for your own business today.
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