Creating a new concept often means making a lot of choices. Sometimes you might have a short list of strong benefits, flavors, insights, or other concept elements and want to create an optimized concept — letting consumers tell you which combinations yield the strongest innovations.
Our client was spending in excess of $300K with Ipsos testing approximately 60 concepts across three waves per year, resulting in over 600 hours of development. Once the concepts were created, it took 4 weeks to field, analyze and deliver the results — in other words, up to 12 weeks to complete the testing. By the end of one year, this old school approach yielded 12 validated concepts.
At Ipsos, we have developed a framework to qualify the full spectrum of experience-based innovations, including apps, digital services and other experiential innovations.