Action points

  • You don’t want your coffee-shop customers going hungry, but beware that the more you promote diverse offers, the more you will weaken customer perceptions of your core competence.
  • If your worry is risk, look for lateral ways to diversify. Explore routes to take your exact same specialism into tangential markets without weakening it.

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