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Generating idea from consumers

The paper considers current and developing creative research methods used in generating ideas from consumers in the area of new product development. The role of consumers as idea-generators is discussed within an overall model commencing from a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Authors: Cliff Holmes, Sheila Keegan

November 2, 1983

Getting the product mix strategy right via model for positioning assessment and potential prediction

This paper will describe a model and market measurement system which predicts new product potential at the concept/product stage of development and explicitly links the prediction to perceptions before and after use. The discussion includes model...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Authors: Robert L. Klein, Katherine A. Moore, Sandra K. Eubank

November 2, 1983

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