Category Archives: Concept Research

When developing new products, why is it important to start with good ideas?

Editor’s note: Shari Morwood is an innovation process facilitator at Minneapolis-based research firm Ideas To Go. This is an edited version of a post that originally appeared here under the same title. How important is it to start with a … Continue reading

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Make your MROC rock

Editor’s note: Tom De Ruyck is head of research communities, and Niels Schillewaert is managing partner USA, at InSites Consulting. Co-creation and crowdsourcing are high on the agenda of the majority of today’s marketers. Among market researchers, using co-creative approaches … Continue reading

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A view with new eyes leads to MR innovation

Editor’s note: Keri Christensen is vice president of the communications division of Market Strategies International, a Livonia, Mich., research firm. This is an edited version of a post that originally appeared here under the title “Three MR ideas to drive … Continue reading

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Creative consumers are a good thing, really

Editor’s note: Bryan Urbick is founder and chairman of Consumer Knowledge Centre, a London research firm. I can still hear the voices, trying to persuade us against our idea. In the mid-1990s when we first decided to progress with some … Continue reading

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