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<blockquote data-quote="helium3" data-source="post: 2734924" data-attributes="member: 31301">No. Don't be silly. I'm not stupid.It depends on the industry, sir. Do you see innovation in companies that produce physical products where personal taste isn't a factor? All the time. Why? Because it's almost guarenteed that an innovation that makes a physical product tangibly better in some way will sell better than products without that innovation.Whenever you throw personal taste into the mix, however, innovation is not a sure fire winner. Companies introduce innovative products that fail ALL THE TIME because the average customer simply does not like the product for reasons of personal taste. When personal taste is a factor, you have to look at what your market generally wants. To do so anything else is ludicrous.So, while you can complain that WOTC is too conservative for your tastes, I think it's highly unreasonable of you to expect them to be less conservative unless you've got some special information in hand that proves that more innovation would improve their profit margin.And if you're suggesting that WOTC not care about their profit margin, well, I just don't know where to go from there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="helium3, post: 2734924, member: 31301"] No. Don't be silly. I'm not stupid. It depends on the industry, sir. Do you see innovation in companies that produce physical products where personal taste isn't a factor? All the time. Why? Because it's almost guarenteed that an innovation that makes a physical product tangibly better in some way will sell better than products without that innovation. Whenever you throw personal taste into the mix, however, innovation is not a sure fire winner. Companies introduce innovative products that fail ALL THE TIME because the average customer simply does not like the product for reasons of personal taste. When personal taste is a factor, you have to look at what your market generally wants. To do so anything else is ludicrous. So, while you can complain that WOTC is too conservative for your tastes, I think it's highly unreasonable of you to expect them to be less conservative unless you've got some special information in hand that proves that more innovation would improve their profit margin. And if you're suggesting that WOTC not care about their profit margin, well, I just don't know where to go from there. [/QUOTE]

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