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Factoring innovation together

Recent years have seen an increasing recognition in many Companies of the importance of effective and continued innovation for real growth. This leads to greater focus within Companies on the process adopted for new idea generation and the testing...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Looking Through The Kaleidoscope

Authors: Cristina Guglielmini, Ivana Ventura

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

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

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

The power of ideas

Two key "ideas" or messages: 1) Successful product engineering is a carefully balanced integration of PROCESSES, TOOLS AND PEOPLE. 2) MARKET RESEARCH MUST BE THOROUGHLY INTEGRATED into the whole process of product development.In other words, market...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Successful Product Engineering

Author: Chris Brooke

June 15, 1995

Developing a product blueprint from the consumer

This paper presents a new technology, IDEAMAP. The technique involves an interactive computer system which makes full use of the opportunities for graphical and pictorial display, plus sound. This allows concepts to be presented in such a way that...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Successful Product Engineering

Authors: Derek C. Martin, Sue Quinn

June 15, 1995

Future featuring

The JOURNEY brand was born of a unique strategic alliance between Manufacturer and Retailer - Cussons No. 1 in Personal Cleansing’ and Boots The Chemists the dominant retailer in Health and Beauty products - who came together to exploit the gap...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Successful Product Engineering

Authors: Susan Holder, David Young

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

Streamlining the front end of the product development process

This paper describes what one industrial products company, Motorola Information Systems Group has recently done to boost their success rate of new products. While using a Stage-Gate process for product development since the late 1980s, Motorola ISG...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Successful Product Engineering

Author: Renee V. Dorjahn

June 15, 1995