Business And Product Development Research

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Considerations when employing a market research online community: The author outlines some of the specific trade-offs (big vs. small, general vs. specific, pure vs. passionate) that researchers make in choosing to use market research online communities.
Innovation research: Stay centered with these three principles: Observation and follow-up interviews are at the core of successful innovation research, along with understanding what's required of a product; designing for individuals; and bettering offerings through usability testing.
Data Use: Improve confidence in findings with strength-of-conviction metric: When constructing an influential attribute assessment, adding a strength-of-conviction metric can help quantify the respondent’s degree of certainty so that it can be controlled for and used to clarify the picture of brand performance.
How online communities can tap a company's greatest unused resource: the consumer: Online communities offer an opportunity to listen to customers and place them at the heart of a company's marketing strategy. By giving the respondent a seat at the decision-making table, companies can build strong and long lasting relationships that may not have been possible through offline media.
Does your concept have what it takes to hit its target?: Innovation may seem like a daunting undertaking, with few signposts to guide the trailblazers of new ideas. However, there is a roadmap that can assist innovators along an effective concept development path and improve the odds of success.

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Managing the minefields of global product development: Most people who are active in international markets are familiar with the challenges associated with developing truly global products. This article discusses the need for international market research and the intricacies involved in conducting it well.
Making Mr. Coffee: Mr. Coffee conducted research to develop and monitor the Mr. Coffee brand personification campaign. The company used a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods, including focus groups, nationally-distributed questionnaires, in-house interviews and a tracking study with a national sample of over 1,000 participants.
Finding a clear path to new ideas: Delphi interviews - in which non-competing professionals whose areas of expertise have been identified as having an impact on a potential research project’s objectives - can serve as vehicle for uncovering new and unexpected ideas and strategies.
Design inspiration: Cookware maker Mirro Company wanted to develop a product for the department and specialty store market. For help with the design work and marketing research, it turned to Metaphase Design Group, which sent three-person teams to observe and videotape people at home using their cookware during meal making. Observational interviews, Buddy Groups, questionnaires and research of consumer product safety information resulted in a new cookware design.
Finding profitable business markets in the inner city: Businesses of all sizes searching for new markets are finding the most lucrative opportunities in their own backyards. Using the example of Chicago-based Shorebucks Corporation’s Neighborhood Markets Framework, this article discusses helping businesses profit in the untapped market in the inner city.

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New product research: Marketing research focused on evaluating product design, package design, product usage, and consumer acceptance of new products.

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WEBINAR: MROC PARTIES: MARRYING ONLINE AND OFFLINE ACTIVITIES TO BUILD BRAND, CAPTURE INSIGHT: September 22 at 11 a.m. EDT, 2010; Globalpark will host a Webinar, themed MROC Parties: Marrying Online and Offline Activities to Build Brand, Capture Insight,' on September 22 at 11 a.m. EDT.
ESOMAR WM3 CONFERENCE: October 19-21, 2010; ESOMAR will hold WM3, a conference on worldwide multimedia measurement, on October 19-21 in Berlin, Germany.

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