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Design Research for Product and Service Innovation

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Design research for product and brand innovation

  • Definition and overview of the practice of design research

  • History and development of design research approaches

  • Major distinctions between design research and other types of market research

How to incorporate research into brand development for corporate identity and product identity

  • The critical research issues that guide strategic development

  • Appropriate methodologies

  • Integration of findings for marketing communications

  • Benchmarking brand effectiveness

  • Case studies

How to incorporate research into product and service development and design

  • Identifying the right products to develop

  • Using research insights to develop design direction

  • Evaluating the effectiveness of product design research

  • Review of methodologies available

  • Process management issues

  • Case studies

Course Prework

Using Research to Foster and Predict Successful Innovation: The Resolve Office System

By Dorothy Deasy, Senior Strategy Director, Cheskin; Peter Flannery, Senior Statistician and Methodologist, Cheskin; and Darrel Rhea, Principal, Cheskin
(Design Management Journal, Summer 2001, Vol. 12, No. 3)

 

Understand What Others Don’t
By Bonnie Johnson, Area Chair/Research, Interval Research, and Davis Masten, Principal, Cheskin Research
(Design Management Journal, Fall 1998, Vol. 9, No. 4)

 

Turn Customer Input Into Innovation
by Anthony W. Ulwick, CEO, Strategyn
(Harvard Business Review, January 2002)

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