‘Minimum Viable Product’ planning

Explains the concept of Minimum Viable Product planning, which is the author's own pragmatic approach to strategic planning, based on his experience of working in such environments.

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As media and products move into a pragmatic era of real test and learn, where a 'Minimum Viable Product' (the most pared-down version of a product that can still be released) mindset leads product and campaign development, so must strategy and planning change to facilitate this or be irrelevant. It's all about working assumptions and hypotheses a culture where it's understood that there are diminishing returns on certainty and it's...

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