Season 2, Ep. 8: Should You Protect Your IP At All Costs?

When your product or service generates important data that your customers can use in a broader "ecosystem," are their situations where you should block the data flow? What if this broader ecosystem includes your competitors? Should you willingly be part of "open systems", or is it to your advantage to create self-contained proprietary, closed systems? The team looks at all sides of this issue.

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I am Tom Spitale, a Partner at Impact Planning Group - welcome to our Podcast! Along with my colleagues and Partners Mary Abbazia and Sean Welham, we are the authors of "The Accidental Marketer" published by Wiley. Through our book and our consulting practice, we help (mostly B2B) Accidental Marketers create unique and compelling strategies that differentiate their products and services from the competition. Our podcast addresses important B2B strategic marketing issues and is designed to help listeners maximize profits in their area of responsibility by creating, communicating and capturing (via pricing strategies) more value for customers than competitors do.