Innovate or die

Every year thousands of new products are launched into the market. Subsequently, established firms also must add innovations to their products to avoid obsolescence. Overall, the survival rate of many innovations is rather low because of their poor acceptance in the marketplace.

How to reduce the risks related to innovation?

Market research increases the chances of success of an innovation from its early stage of development. Market research allows you to identify opportunities and to adapt your product to the real needs of consumers.

The cost of a bad decision

Making a wrong decision has two important costs for your firm: the final cost (the money that your company actually loses) and the opportunity cost (the cost of not using your resources in an optimal way). Market research is an investment that reduces the risks related to innovation.

Our approach

Acertiva will allow your firm to fine-tune its marketing plan by analyzing several critical aspects that are linked to the success of your new product or service.

Our services will allow you to answer some critical questions such as:

 Are consumers truly interested in our new product or service?

 What modifications should we make to our product to increase its acceptance in the marketplace?

 What market segments offer more potential for our new product?

 What is the potential market size? What sales volume can we expect?

 What is the competitive environment? Who are our most important direct and indirect competitors?

 What is the impact that our initiative will have in our franchise?

 What is the optimal price for our product?

Tools

In Acertiva we combine market research techniques with our in-house methodologies to give you unique, fresh, useful and reliable insights that will support your company to develop successful innovations.

 

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
  Innovation   
     
  Branding   
     
  Loyalty   
     
  Outsourcing   
     
  Ethnographies   
     
  Surveys   
     
  Qualitative research   
     
  Competitive intelligence   
     
 
         
         
         
 

Case

Situation

A leading firm in the fast food industry wanted to know how convenient it was to introduce two of their new products in the Mexican market.

Findings

Through a market research study conducted by Acertiva, the following critical aspects for the success of their new product were found:

 Main purchase drivers per city

 Purchase intention and intended purchase frequency per city, gender, and age

 Price sensibility of consumers toward their new products

 Unsatisfied needs of Mexican consumers of their product category

Results

With the analysis results provided by Acertiva, the firm was able to fine-tune the marketing strategy of its new products and several actions were taken to increase the potential success of its new products in the marketplace.

 

     
         
    © 2008 Acertiva Investigacion de Mercados, S.C. - site map - privacy policy