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Joining the 4th dimension

Consumer Insights are the most important factors associated with effective product development. Qualitative research methods are well suited to understand the consumer, most importantly needs, dreams, desires and the feelings and provides the...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2007

Authors: Catherine Genter, Andera Gadeib

Company: Dialego AG

November 12, 2007

Consumers at the heart of innovation

Consumers should be at the heart of client innovation initiatives. This paper provides brand owners with a fresh perspective when thinking about how to involve consumers in processes linked to innovation, to arrive at both cutting edge ideas for new...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2007

Authors: Helen Wing, Raymond Crook, Sunanda Brahma

March 12, 2007

Brand Malaysia’

Everything is branded these days! Brand Malaysia is a unique brand building effort that defied the conventions of the 'est' syndrome (biggest, largest, richest, etc.).Brand Malaysia encapsulates the idea of 'redefining the conventional'. It is about...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2007

Author: Ratna Pratik Thakar

March 12, 2007

Optimal assortment and planogram development

Adopting a reach optimising approach to category assortment development presents significant advantages over a simplistic volume based solution. In evaluating category reach, however, we must take into account both the purchase and consumption...

Catalogue: Retail 2007

Author: Ian Addie

Company: Nunwood

February 19, 2007

From inspiration to the shopping cart

Successful NPD is one of the foremost challenges that the marketing fraternity grapples with today. Always an uncertain territory, it has become even more of a battle in the present context, with a fatigued consumer overloaded with sameness. An...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2006

Authors: Shashikala Raj, Anjali Puri

Company: Nielsen

October 8, 2006

How to turn Latin American trends into market opportunities

Based on GfK Roper Reports' Worldwide (RRW), a survey conducted annually since 1997 in at least 25 countries including major Latin American countries, the paper identifies consumer lifestyle trends and reveal their consequences in terms of market...

Catalogue: Latin America 2006

Author: Jean Christophe Salles

Company: GfK

October 8, 2006

Greenhousing with caring consumers

Developing innovative products and creating different ideas has never been a problem for Unilever. The company spent years and years investing in internal techniques and processes to ensure the development of innovative products for the marketplace....

Catalogue: Qualitative 2006

Authors: Karina Meyer, Rony Rodrigues

Companies: Unilever, Box1824

October 8, 2006

Patent watching

This paper proposes the Systematic Innovation Methodology as an option to conventional consumer research and understanding methods.Not only does this methodology help translate insights into successful prototypes, but it is also a self-standing...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Author: Alexei Bogdanov

September 17, 2006

Foresight and innovation

Product innovations are developed for a future market with future consumers. Engineers and decision makers need to understand both to be successful. The paper shows an empirically based framework which systematically integrates the people dimension...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Katja Henke, Markus Buchwald, Thomas Perry, Oliver Tabino

Companies: Deutsche Telekom, SINUS Markt- und Sozialforschung GmbH

September 17, 2006