Concept Research in Food Product Design & Development

• 1. The Business Environment and the Role of Concept Research in that Environment.

Part I: Nuts & Bolts, Raw Materials & Ratings.

• 2. Single Benefits Screening (promise testing) and more Complex Concept Testing.
• 3. Ideation Strategies & Their Deployment in Concept Development.
• 4. From Questions and Scales to Respondents and Field Execution.

Part II: Experimental Designs, Graphics, Segments and Markets.

• 5. Systematic Variation of Concept Elements and the Conjoint Analysis Approach.
• 6. Concepts as a Combination of Graphics.
• 7. Segmentation Results and the Differential Importance of Categories.
• 8. International Research and Transnational Segmentation.

Part III : Advanced Analytics.

• 9. Believing the Results: Reliability and Validity. 
• 10. Response time as a Dependent Variable in Concept Research.
• 11. Children Compared with Adults.
• 12. Pricing Issues in Early-stage Concept Research.
• 13. Analyzing a Study: Casual-dining Restaurant.
• 14. Creating Products from Concepts and Vice Versa.
• 15. Exploratory Modeling and Mapping, Simulating New Combinations, Data Mining.

Part IV: Putting the Approaches to Work.

• 16. Developing from the Ground up: Self-authoring Systems for Text and Package Concepts.
• 17. Deconstruction and competitive intelligence.
• 18. Bottom-up Innovation: Creating Product Concepts from First Principles.
• 19. Creating a Cyberspace Innovation Machine.

Part V: Databasing.

• 20. Creating an Integrated Database from Concept Research – The It! Studies.
• 21. Highlights and insights from The It! Studies: Crave It! and Eurocrave.
• 22. Highlights and Insights from the Drink It!® Study.
• 23. Understanding Brand Names in Concepts.
• 24. Emotion in concepts.

Part VI: The Grand Overview.

• 25. Concept Development and the Consumer-insights Business.
• 26. Scientific & Business Realpolitik: Insights from selling new ideas for Concept Research.
• 27. Two Views of the future: Structured Informatics and Research.

Index.

Concept Research in Food Product Design and Development by Howard R. Moskowitz, Sebastiano Porretta and Matthias Silcher remedies this inattention to product concepts by providing a unique treatment of concepts for the business professional as well as for research scientists. The book begins with simple principles of concepts, moves forward to methods for testing concepts, and then on to more substantive areas such as establishing validity, testing internationally and with children, creating databases, and selling in new methods for concept testing. The book combines a "how to" business book with a detailed treatment of the different facets of concept research. As such, the book represents a unique contribution to business applications in food, and consumer research methods. The book is positioned specifically for foods, to maintain a focus on a coherent set of topics.

Concept Research in Food Product Design and Development appeals to a wide variety of audiences: R&D, marketing, sensory analysts, and universities alike. Corporate R&D professionals will learn how to create strong concepts. Marketers will recognize how concepts are at the heart of their business. Sensory analysts will find the book a natural extension of their interest in product features. University students will understand how concept research is a critical part of the "consumer-connection." Concept Research in Food Product Design and Development is the definitive, innovative text in describing how to create, analyze, and capitalize upon new product concepts.


Key Features

• Unique treatment of concepts for the business professional and the research scientist.
• Positioned specifically for foods, to maintain a focus on a coherent set of topics.
• Definitive text in describing how to create, analyze and capitalize upon new product concepts.

About the Author

• Howard R. Moskowitz, Ph.D. is president and CEO of Moskowitz Jacobs Inc., White Plains, NY, a firm he founded in 1981. Moskowitz is a well-known experimental psychologist in the field of psychophysics (the study of perception and its relation to physical stimuli), and an inventor of world-class market research technology. Among his important contributions to market research is his 1975 introduction of psychophysical scaling and product optimization for consumer product development. A Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists and member of numerous other professional societies, he has written/edited twelve books, published well over 250 articles, and serves on the editorial board of major journals. With colleague E.P. Koster, Moskowitz co-founded the journal Chemical Senses and Flavor, now called Chemical Senses, the leading journal in the field.
• Sebastiano Porretta, Ph.D. is a senior researcher of the Italian Ministry of Industry at the Experimental Station for the Food Preservation Industry in Parma, Italy. He is well known for his research devoted to the study of the quality, and particularly the development of techniques, for a more accurate quality evaluation considering the relationships between the physico-chemical and sensory properties of food. He contributes to the Sensory and Consumer Evaluation of Food and Food Market with original approaches: the interactions between foods and the consumers. Great work was done to evaluate the effect of ingredients on food quality and consumer acceptability. Currently, Porretta's Professor of Food Processing at the Catholic University of Piacenza, Professor of Sensory and Consumer Science at the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo, and President of the Italian Association of Food Technology (AITA), since 1997. Additionally, Porretta is the Author/Editor of sixteen books and papers in scientific journals and a member of several boards of international peer reviewed journals.
• Matthias Silcher, M.A. is assistant project director at Moskowitz Jacobs Inc. and has a background in empirical communication research, sociology and political science from the University of Berlin, Germany. His thesis, Survey by Short Messaging Service was the first academic paper on this subject. He has consulted for Kienbaum Consultants and advised as a political researcher for NFO Infratest.

Book Details 
 

• Hardcover: 612 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (February 28, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813824249
• ISBN-13: 9780813824246
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.7 x 1.8 inches

List Price: $209.99 
 

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