{"id":210,"date":"2007-12-21T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/2007\/12\/demonstrating-product-evolution\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T16:08:13","slug":"demonstrating-product-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/demonstrating-product-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonstrating product evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pg.com\">Proctor and Gamble<\/a> have a very pleasing diagram of the evolution of their products &#8211; a variant on the usual history timeline.  Since products spawn in multiple directions, it obviously isn&#8217;t as linear as a history timeline tends to be.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/images\/pgproducthistory.jpg' title='Proctor and Gamble product history'><img data-src='https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/pgproducthistory150.jpg' alt='Proctor and Gamble product history' src='data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==' class='lazyload' style='--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/188;' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The small blue circles expand on rollover to explain &#8211; for example &#8211; how their knowledge of bleaching as used in detergents led to the development of dental bleaching kits.  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