Resources Library by ANA

Concept testing of product design proposals

In product development, computer-aided design is already established as an effective tool for the generation, modification, analysis, simulation, and evaluation of a product design. The computer can also be regarded as an organizational platform on...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Successful Product Engineering

Author: Gerard Loosschilder

June 15, 1995

There's no need to re-invent the wheel

The paper comprises four sections. In the first section, a description is provided of a technique used over many years. It is holistic in its approach with proven validity and reliability in product areas where aesthetic rather than functional...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Successful Product Engineering

Author: William Arthur Dunning

June 15, 1995

Engineering & anthropology: A winning combination

The Client company, a well established manufacturer of consumer durables in India was keen to manufacture and market a vacuum cleaner, specially tailored for the urban Indian household. This paper presents the developmental process, the lessons...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Successful Product Engineering

Authors: Deenaz Damania, C. K. Sharma, Mike Woodhall

June 15, 1995

Testing design via eye-movement analysis

In toady's markets design can be regarded as a force for achieving market success. Strategically-oriented management in design and communication is required and an intelligent, improved product design. As we all know, design is a process of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Successful Product Engineering

Author: Norbert Hammer

June 15, 1995

The role of store design in the development of an established retail brand

MFI, the UK’s leading furniture retailer, recognised the need to develop its trading format as a response to customer feedback and also as a response to pressure on its share of the kitchen furniture market, one of MFCs core product areas. As a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Facing Up To The Challenges In Retailing

Authors: Andy Turton, Debbie Boshell

June 15, 1995

Engineering a motor car that someone really wants to buy

From the standpoint of engineering (or designing) products, the case is argued for a marketing research approach that: identifies the key needs of different target groups and sets out to match them and satisfy them, within the product offer itself,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Successful Product Engineering

Author: Peter Sampson

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1995

Stealing brand equity' measuring perceptual confusion between national brands and copycat own-label products

In all countries, distributors' brands have been facing the same problem : how to change consumers' perceptions, without advertising, from inferior imitations of national brands to quality alternatives. To do so the packaging is the main media : one...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: Building Successful Brands

Author: Jean-Nöel Kapferer

June 15, 1994

Panel research contributions to product portfolio management: A case study

This paper presents a case study to illustrate how research based on consumer panels can go beyond its conventional applications in new product performance tracking and market share predictions to facilitate strategic decisions in the area of product...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: The Changing Faces Of Panel Research

Authors: S. V. Nathan, Raka Garg

Company: Colgate-Palmolive

June 15, 1994

Today's fine fragrance from a designer's point of view

We will all agree that the fine fragrance industry does show some changes; normal evolution of an industry, commercial uncertainty, growing numbers of launches, acceleration of trends and increasing infidelity from consumers emphasize today the risk...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Consumer Research In Fragrance Business

Author: Thierry Lecoule

June 15, 1993