In order to achieve radical innovation, companies require an increasingly deep understanding of consumers’ wants and needs. Three challenges that consumer insights teams are faced with are detailed, and a design-driven approach offered that uses a combination of theory and hands-on experience. Specifically, the approach outlines how to capture truthful consumer needs through emotions, how to structure and prioritize them using consumer goal conflicts, and how to maintain and communicate insights throughout a project with narratives. This approach was applied in a large-scale innovation project that recreated AlaTurca, a salty snacks brand of PepsiCo, Turkey.
PepsiCo wanted to (re)connect the Ruffles brand with Turkish youngsters. For six weeks a market research online community (MROC) was the central hub in which a dialogue took place between Gen Y, the Ruffles brand team and the advertising agency. In three sequential stages we moved from generating insights over developing new product concepts to pre-testing activation platforms and campaigns. In order to connect all stakeholders with the target group, we created multiple touch points with the consumer world and the research results included a consumer news website, live chat sessions with members, creative brainstorm sessions and offline consumer safaris in Istanbul. This presentation gives insights into the power of triangulation in qual research and creating impact with research.
PepsiCo wanted to (re)connect the Ruffles brand with Turkish youngsters. For six weeks a market research online community (MROC) was the central hub in which a dialogue took place between Gen Y, the Ruffles brand team and the advertising agency. In three sequential stages we moved from generating insights over developing new product concepts to pre-testing activation platforms and campaigns. In order to connect all stakeholders with the target group, we created multiple touch points with the consumer world and the research results included a consumer news website, live chat sessions with members, creative brainstorm sessions and offline consumer safaris in Istanbul. This presentation gives insights into the power of triangulation in qual research and creating impact with research.
In order to achieve radical innovation, companies require an increasingly deep understanding of consumers wants and needs. Three challenges that consumer insights teams are faced with are detailed, and a design-driven approach offered that uses a combination of theory and hands-on experience. Specifically, the approach outlines how to capture truthful consumer needs through emotions, how to structure and prioritize them using consumer goal conflicts, and how to maintain and communicate insights throughout a project with narratives. This approach was applied in a large-scale innovation project that recreated AlaTurca, a salty snacks brand of PepsiCo, Turkey.