lead user meaning

• [Business]
  noun [C]

  (Marketing )

  a company, person, etc. that is the first to experience a particular need, and therefore adapts an existing product or service to meet this need or is the first to use a new service or product:

  Lead users are a valuable source of new product ideas.

• Research on lead users emerged from studies on sources of innovation.
• Then, an appropriate name can lead users to the right information.
• Hilti utilized the lead user method to develop a simplified pipe hanger.
• The basic tax programs lead users through the tax preparation process by asking questions.
• Such consumers, called lead users, are prized in the product development world.
• And how do you find these lead users?
• A : We focus on the customers we call " lead users ."
• In order to describe this phenomenon, in 1986 he introduced the term lead user.
• The lead user method focuses on idea generation based on leading users to develop breakthrough innovations.
• An extension of user innovations is the idea of "'lead users " '.

• "lead user" meaning in Chinese: [网络] 领先用户；领先使用者；先驱使用者