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Why Catalytic Customers are Irreplaceable in the Age of AI
As artificial intelligence continues to revolutionize how businesses glean insights, it’s tempting to rely on algorithms to tell us...

Paul Peterson
Dec 5, 20243 min read


The Financial Case for Making Catalytic Customers Your Priority
The Top 10 Ways Learning from Catalytic Customers Boosts Your Bottom Line In today’s hyper-competitive market, innovation isn’t...

Paul Peterson
Dec 3, 20242 min read


Keep Your Product Roadmap on Track Using Catalytic Customers
In product management, few things are as frustrating—or damaging—as being blindsided. Whether it's a sudden competitive move, an...

Paul Peterson
Dec 2, 20243 min read


What Catalytic Customers Know About Your Competition (That You Might Not)
In the race to stay ahead in today’s hyper-competitive markets, businesses are constantly looking for ways to uncover new opportunities,...

Paul Peterson
Nov 30, 20243 min read


How Catalytic Customers Help Product Managers Avoid the HiPPO Trap
In product development, it’s a familiar scenario: a critical decision looms about the product roadmap, and in the absence of clear...

Paul Peterson
Nov 30, 20243 min read


What Product-Led Growth Companies Can Learn from Catalytic Customers
In the fast-paced world of product-led growth (PLG), where the product is the primary driver of acquisition, retention, and expansion,...

Paul Peterson
Nov 26, 20242 min read


Catalytic Customers as Growth Engines
We’ve long championed the power of Catalytic Customers—highly engaged, knowledgeable, and influential individuals within a category....

Paul Peterson
Sep 3, 20243 min read


Observing Catalytic Customers in their Native Habitat
Harnessing Digital Ethnography to Capture Catalytic Customer Insights We've written a lot about the importance of understanding the...

Paul Peterson
Jul 23, 20242 min read


The 3 Biggest Mistakes in Customer Feedback and How to Avoid Them
Customer feedback is the lifeblood of meaningful innovation. It guides effective product planning, informs resonant marketing strategies,...

Paul Peterson
Jul 16, 20243 min read


The Future of Customer Understanding: Moving Past the Old Playbook
The practice of customer insights is overdue for a seismic shift. Traditional methods of understanding customers are no longer sufficient...

Paul Peterson
Jun 30, 20243 min read


Unlock the Power of Catalytic Customers to Drive Sustainable Growth
Relying on internal data and artificial intelligence to understand customer behavior is great for creating a picture of what’s already...

Paul Peterson
Jun 15, 20243 min read


What Makes B2B Research So Challenging? Here’s our Top 10.
Recently, we were challenged by a business-to-business client to articulate what it means to be a specialist in B2B market research. How...

Paul Peterson
Nov 26, 20233 min read
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