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RDKirk said:

To "...order their marketing departments to survey their customers" is on the other side of the planet from "... just floats the idea to see how it will be accepted or rejected by the population."

The marketing department knows exactly how to phrase, how to disguise, and with what chosen market sample to float an idea without it reflecting negatively on the company.

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JimR-OCDS said:

They do the survey's by making their ideas known before making a decision. I worked down the hall from a
customer surveying group which sent out fliers to their customers in order to get feed-back which they in turn
gave to the CEO and BODs. That is AKIN to floating an idea.

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RDKirk said:

My daughter is a marketing director, and she'd tell you that, no, it's not. She does a lot more than let her CEO spout something off the cuff to the press.

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