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A launch test programme designed to predict market performance for new youth magazines

Test marketing new magazine ideas is not an economically feasible operation for I.P.C. Magazines' Youth Group. However, I.P.C.'s editorial and marketing expertise, gained over many years of publishing in the youth market, enables it to minimise the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Publishing A Better Product

Author: Hilary Cross

November 23, 1983

Predicting sales volume and market shares

The paper argues the case for extending the value of much market research data concerned with concept testing, concept/product use testing and usage and attitude tracking studies by employing modelling systems to predict sales volume or market...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Authors: Peter Sampson, Patrick G. M. Standen

Company: Burke, Inc.

November 2, 1983

Choosing the right product

Market research has developed several tools for selecting the optimal combination of product features. One of the methods which has become fairly popular within the last years is the "Trade-Off Model". With this method, utility indices are computed...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Authors: Detlef Baur, Jürgen Doeblin

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

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

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

Exploration into the time-money tradeoff

The paper describes the construction - of a survey instrument to measure the value of time relative to that of money. It then illustrates how that instrument may be applied to explore one aspect of technology's impact on the valuation to time: the...

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

Authors: John Deighton, Franco M. Nicosia, Yoram Wind

June 15, 1983

Predicting the sales potential of new products

The paper reviews the applicability of the main market research methods which predict the sales potential of new products in fast-moving consumer goods markets. In particular, it examines a class of techniques - Simulated Test Markets - usage of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Authors: Simon Godfrey, Jon Wilkinson

June 15, 1983

Reliability and sensitivity of research surveys

Elements of the design and operation of large scale surveys introduce sources of error not adequately dealt with in normal textbook formulae. Nevertheless, it is often possible by comparing the results of replicated surveys to arrive at objective and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Author: Norman L. Webb

Company: Gallup International Association

June 15, 1983