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Tags: | Concept Development | Concept Optimization | Concept Research | Concept Testing
| Technology Commercialization

 

Recent Articles

Below are the 5 most recent articles on this topic. These articles were published within the last three years and are only available to registered subscribers.

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.
Ethnography tracks the migration of technology into the American kitchen
For many Americans, a kitchen is no longer just a place for making meals. The author’s ongoing study has seen it morph into a HIVE, a highly interactive virtual environment that incorporates food preparation along with checking e-mail, surfing the Web and a host of other tech-related activities.
How hybrid research allowed eBay users to give feedback on the feedback system
To help online buyers and sellers alike, eBay teamed up with Invoke Solutions to provide a qual-quant approach to concept testing that would guide the updating of eBay’s user feedback system.
Overcome these common hazards to seize their potential
This article explains to how effectively execute a mixed-method market research project and avoid having the many facets end up as little more than disparate parts of an incomplete whole.
Laddering showed Infiniti how drivers viewed its Around View Monitor technology
Infiniti used laddering to better understand how a host of new technologies met, or didn’t meet, car buyers’ unstated psychological motivations and how the technologies supported the Infiniti brand.

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Related Articles

There are 18 articles in our archive related to this topic. Below are 5 selected at random and available to all users of the site.

Loosening the wheels of innovation
Seeking to extend its venerable brand, WD-40 conducted ethnographic research with workers in a variety of industries to uncover unmet needs. The research led to the introduction of two very successful products, the No-Mess Pen and the Big Blast.
Recording a revolution
To identify audience interest and needs for EQ, a music recording publication, researchers mailed a survey to potential readers. The study inventoried advertisements in industry publications to estimate the potential market share and it employed informal interviews with industry contacts to ascertain the market potential. The researchers also tested potential titles by asking regional and national distributors to respond to dummy magazine covers.
Focus groups shape successful ad campaign for Oasis Laundries
After using customer feedback to better its product, Oasis Laundries used focus groups with multiple target customer types to develop its ad campaign. Customer surveys are used on an ongoing basis to determine location-specific preferences.
Blueprints to successful concept development
The second of a two-part series on successful concept development, this article explains the tactical process and specific qualitative and quantitative tools for evaluating and enhancing concepts that lead to products consumers will love.
Fluid and flexible
Office furniture maker Bretford used research with architects, interior designers and facility managers to create its new Liquid Power line of office furniture. Aiming at high-tech companies, the company and its design company partner sought to develop an office furniture system that could easily adapt to demand for electrical outlets and quickly changing personnel needs.

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