[net.misc.coke] If you were president of Coke...

john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) (07/28/85)

Here's your chance to do some Monday Morning Quarterbacking:

Situation: you are the president of a major soft drink firm. Your sales are
good, but you are mostly being carried by fountain sales where people have
little choice. Given a choice, such as in the supermarket, people choose
your leading competitor.

   Your R&D people have come to you with a new version of your main
product. One difference, however, its taste contains many of the elements
of your leading competitor and actually beats that product in blind taste
tests. Your marketing people recommend you immediately replace your product
with this new version, despite any sense of tradition connected with your
old product. What do you do?

Do you:

	1) Stay with the old product, since it's an American tradition.
	
	2) Quietly replace the old with the new, hoping people notice
	   the difference.
	
	3) Replace the old with the new, making it the biggest media
	   event of the decade.
	
	4) Try some other approach, like changing your advertising. 
	   If so, what?
	
	5) Take a job with a computer firm and leave the problem for
	   someone else.


Seriously, while the world waits for Coca Cola Classic to hit the shelves,
we might as well keep busy. What better that postulating alternate
scenarios?


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