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“A partnership is the paramount confederation for creating and nurturing innovation.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Envision what the path would be if the best answer lay inside the imagination of the customer.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Deep inside every customer is a treasure trove of half-baked ideas, creative capacity, and ingenuity-in-the-raw.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Curiosity is the secret map to accessing and mining your customer’s imagination.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Be absorbed in what your customer is saying; be inspired by what your customer is meaning.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Never assume you know what your customers value or that their preferences will remain static.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“In a judgment-free arena, there is an evident invitation to surface imaginative ideas, perspectives, and insights.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Remember, a great conversation with a customer is not debate practice. Be a learner, not an interrogator.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Co-creation partnerships that prosper reject selfishness; they are all about “How can I serve you?”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Partnership elasticity stretches the relationship so it can breathe, grow, and expand.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“In the world of innovation, wacky wins; logical loses.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Let your co-creation partnership run free in the wild meadow of originality; it will be fenced in the stable of practicality soon enough.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Invite your customer to take risks in the pursuit of inspired innovation, and be your customer’s net when they step onto that high wire.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Help your customer lighten up, let go, kick back, and save perfection for a rare picture day.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“The opportunity to co-create is a gift you give your customer as a way to summon their imagination.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Access to inside your customer’s imagination comes with learning and discovering together, out loud.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Innovation dances to the sweet sound of a banjo. Banjo behavior makes people want to jump up and join in.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“If the pursuit of customer imagination were a religion, passion would be its hymnal.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Your being in the middle of your imagination turned on is not like a boardroom; it’s like a candy shop.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

“Co-creation partnerships are free-idea zones because they are neighborhoods of acceptance and goodness.”
― Chip R. Bell, Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions