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Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant - always yours

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DEFINING AND MANAGING THE CATEGORY OR SUBCATEGORY 267<br />

Managing a category or subcategory needs to use substantial<br />

or transformational innovation. There is a need to build a<br />

culture to support execution, to use the brand as an exemplar<br />

if possible to build the category or subcategory, to create advocates<br />

and stimulate buzz, and to manage innovation to create a<br />

moving target.<br />

For Discussion<br />

1. Look at offerings in a fi rm’s product portfolio. How is the<br />

category or subcategory defi ned? What brands are exemplars?<br />

What brands are marginal — on the fringe of the<br />

category? What brands with products that qualify are<br />

not relevant? Why?<br />

2. Pick a category, such as cars or snack foods. What new<br />

entries have created subcategories? How were those<br />

subcategories defi ned?

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