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How to optimise the go/no go decisions

This paper will focus on the interchange between the critical commercial and medical functions and the decisions they can make or change as a result of input from key sources of intelligence and experience. Case studies which illustrate the...

Catalogue: EphMRA/ESOMAR Conference 1994: Meeting The Pressures By Intelligent Resourcing

Author: Stuart Cooper

June 1, 1994

Keep a watchful eye to find ideas throughout everyday life

We begin by summing up the changes that have occurred within society and with regard to consumption behaviours. From these changes, we deduce the need for a different approach to consumer research: the principle of reverse marketing. Reverse...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Looking Through The Kaleidoscope

Authors: Caroline Lioret, Anne-Catherine Dugast

December 1, 1995

Day-in-the-life-visits

Many information technology companies use marketing research as a reality check during product design and testing: research is used to evaluate the products, ascertain user/customer judgments, and the viability of user/customer interfaces....

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1995: Making The Decision

Authors: Deborah Mrazek, Norman Dyer, Susan Dray

September 1, 1995

Information acceleration

In this paper we discuss Information Acceleration, an interactive multimedia market research approach for new product development. The paper is divided into three parts. First we discuss how the features of Information Acceleration (LA) 1 *...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1996: Changing Business Dynamics

Authors: Roberta Chicos, Eric Almquist

September 1, 1996

Benefit segmentation

This paper presents benefit segmentation as a tool which in conjunction with other consumer information helps obtain directions for new products catering to the mobility needs of different segments. Based on a large qualitative and quantitative...

Catalogue: International Automotive Marketing Conference 1998

Author: N. S. Muthukumaran

June 15, 1998

Preliminary documentation for the Parsim program series

The model is designed to aid a decision maker who is considering the expansion of existing facilities or building a new plant for old or new products. The model conditionally expands the facilities if the ratio of manufacturing capacity to potential...

Catalogue: Seminar 1968: Operational Research In Marketing

Author: General Electric B.V.

November 1, 1968

Asking consumers what they want when they don't know the answer

This paper argues that new product development research requires a very different approach where the technology being tested involves a change in mindset. It uses the example of a concept test for a new form of mobile instant messaging.

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference on Excellence in Consumer Insights 2004

Author: Ben Lovejoy

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

April 18, 2004

State of new product market research around the world

This paper assesses the state of worldwide new product market research from the perspective of the author's 40 years experience in the United States, Europe and other areas and in building and directing a market research organization for a...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1979: It Won't Work Here

Author: Richard M. Seitz

March 1, 1979

Adapting packaged goods research techniques to the development of new magazines

The biggest problem that researchers in the magazine field face is that not all of the existing techniques are as readily adaptable to the investigation of magazines as most research firms think. As a matter of fact, we at Time Inc. have had to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Malcom B. Ochs

November 1, 1979