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Product screening and product optimization

In this paper, I shall discuss an alternative approach which, although developed in the early fifties, has only recently been applied for the development of consumer goods and which is based on Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and the use of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Author: Juergen Schwoerer

November 2, 1983

Simulated test markets

This paper starts from the premise that the Simulated Test Markets (STMs) now being used in Europe have an impressive track record in terms of the validity of the predictions they make regarding the future success of new products. The techniques that...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Authors: Stafford Crossman, Peter J. Hayes

November 2, 1983

Optimizing the product line

This paper introduces - necessarily briefly - OPAS, a system to optimise products and assortments. Basically, two parts can be distinguished. The first part consists of all models related to data collection and conjoint measurement, resulting in an...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Author: Rob R. van den Heuvel

November 2, 1983

Summary: How to triple sales through innovation in a conservative environment

"Passendale" is a remarkably successful case history in the product and brand development area. Not so much due to a unique research programme but more to the external environment in which it was executed and to the results obtained.

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Author: Wim van Hees

October 2, 1983

Assessor

With 10 years of use and 500 applications, ASSESSOR has enriched its capabilities as a model structure, has incorporated quite a few decision aids and is delivering experience data base services. The model is a simultaneous system which structures...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Authors: Jacques Blanchard, Carlos Harding

October 2, 1983

A consumer model of the European car market

B1 Cars is a major producer of British cars. During the 1970’s it lost the dominance of the British car market, and required rescue by government ownership. It has now been restructured and expects the 1980’s to be a period of regrowth. The...

Catalogue: AMA/JMRA/JMA/ESOMAR Conference 1983: Strategic Planning

Authors: Philip Wade, Ronu K. Majumder

June 15, 1983

Strategic planning across Europe

Western Europe, viewed from overseas, appears to be a homogenous group of countries linked in harmonious union. Nine countries are linked, politically and economically through the European Economic Community and a further six through E.F.T.A. - The...

Catalogue: AMA/JMRA/JMA/ESOMAR Conference 1983: Strategic Planning

Authors: Roger Sargood, Malcom R. Mather

Company: Gallup International Association

June 15, 1983

Danes' attitudes to Norway as a holiday resort

The main purpose of the study on which this paper is based is to investigate the Danes' attitudes and behaviour to Norway as a holiday resort (summer and winter respectively). The main purpose of this paper is partly to present some of the main...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: The importance Of Research In The Tourism Industry

Authors: Knut J. Tallhaug, Nils Röhme

June 15, 1983

More family in your holiday

There is no doubt that children play an important role in the tourism process. It is often the children who influence their parents' decision regarding the vacation. They are also the ones who make a return to the same place more likely, if they have...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: The importance Of Research In The Tourism Industry

Author: Schimun Murk

June 15, 1983