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Product Intelligence

Analyze product performance for improvement, disruptive innovation, concept testing, and benchmarking.

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Innovation: Ideation + Iteration

Innovation Research, Automotive & Mobility, Building & Construction, Chemicals, Consumer & B2B2C, Food & Beverage, Franchising, Healthcare & Human Factors

Concept testing is a pivotal stage in the product development process. After an initial idea or concept has been developed, brands must validate its potential in the market. This process involves assessing whether the concept is understood, appealing, and viable from a consumer perspective. What’s more, concept testing, as a function of quantitative and qualitative market research, can insulate the innovator from wasted resources and unnecessary capital expenditures. 

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Exploring Conjoint Analysis Methods

Innovation Research, Voice of Customer

Conjoint analysis is a powerful tool and can be used to quantify a number of metrics, including product/feature value; trade-offs customers are willing to make; and, in some cases, price elasticity for a product, feature or brand. Adaptive choice-based conjoint

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Focus Groups in Product Concept Evaluation

Innovation Research

How do you best obtain feedback from key users and decision makers that provide independent insights and constructive suggestions? Focus groups work to show what exactly these individuals are thinking. When your company is considering launching a new product, what critical information is needed? Focus group discussions can be a great way to start product concept evaluation. Focus groups are a qualitative data collection method employed to gain valuable insights into attitudes, behaviors, product positioning statements, and any product unmet needs.

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Apostle Analysis: How to Identify and Augment Your Brand’s Most Loyal Fans

Apostle Analysis is a model that categorizes customers based on their likelihood to repurchase and their overall satisfaction with a brand. By using a structured framework, businesses can pinpoint their most valuable customers and identify at-risk segments.

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Keep ‘em Talking

Facilitating modern focus groups and research panels requires more than just asking questions—it's about building trust, understanding entire industries, and creating environments where participants feel comfortable sharing valuable insights.

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The Feedback Loop is the New Alpha

Customer Experience & Journey Mapping, Innovation Research, Automotive & Mobility, Consumer & B2B2C, Food & Beverage

There is a quiet arms race happening in product development right now, and it has nothing to do with who has the best model, the biggest engineering team, or the most advanced tech stack. The teams pulling ahead, the ones building products that customers actually love, are winning on something deceptively simple: the speed and frequency of their user feedback cycles.

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Building for a Leaner Crew: What the Labor Shortage Demands from Product Innovation

Market Sizing & Opportunity Assessment, Pricing Research, Strategic Planning, Building & Construction

The construction industry's workforce gap is accelerating a new era of product development. Here's how manufacturers can get ahead of it: What the labor shortage demands from product innovation...

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Competitive Intelligence in Commercial Due Diligence

Commercial Due Diligence, Competitive Intelligence, Private Equity

Competitive analysis, benchmarking, and positioning are critical building blocks underpinning effective commercial due diligence. Without the context of other players' share, growth trajectories, capabilities/resources, intellectual property, and go-to-market strategies, growth estimates and feasibility assessments are likely inaccurate. Simply put: you cannot understand a company without understanding the field on which it plays.

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The Workforce Crisis Is a Product Problem. And Manufacturers Are Missing It.

Brand Research, Market Sizing & Opportunity Assessment, Building & Construction

When manufacturers understand the true economic value their products deliver in a labor-constrained environment, they gain a powerful foundation for pricing strategy, product development, and sales messaging.

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The Hard-to-Reach Imperative

Brand Research, Commercial Due Diligence, Competitive Intelligence, Innovation Research, Market Sizing & Opportunity Assessment, Pricing Research, Strategic Planning, Voice of Customer

In complex B2B markets, the individuals who hold the most meaningful insights are often the least accessible. When researchers reach the right voices, even when doing so requires creativity, persistence, and unconventional approaches, the insights gained are often more nuanced, more grounded, and far more actionable.

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How Supply Chain Diversification Is Evolving into Regional Resilience

Competitive Intelligence, Market Sizing & Opportunity Assessment, Automotive & Mobility, Building & Construction, Chemicals, Transportation & Logistics

Martec’s research over dozens of post-pandemic projects confirms what many global analysts have observed: firms that weathered disruption most effectively were those that had already built structural redundancy—dual sourcing and diversified supplier bases.  Many also furthered these defenses by reversing the decades old trend of global centralization in logistics, and adopting instead greater regionalization of their manufacturing supply chains.

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Innovation: Ideation + Iteration

Innovation Research, Automotive & Mobility, Building & Construction, Chemicals, Consumer & B2B2C, Food & Beverage, Franchising, Healthcare & Human Factors

Concept testing is a pivotal stage in the product development process. After an initial idea or concept has been developed, brands must validate its potential in the market. This process involves assessing whether the concept is understood, appealing, and viable from a consumer perspective. What’s more, concept testing, as a function of quantitative and qualitative market research, can insulate the innovator from wasted resources and unnecessary capital expenditures. 

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From Insight to Action

Commercial Due Diligence, Innovation Research, Strategic Planning

Allovance is also a powerful tool for corporate development teams. We’ve used it in projects where a client wanted to explore product categories, sub-markets, adjacent markets; identify acquisition targets; and evaluate which companies would create the most value within the constraints of a predetermined acquisition budget.

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Updated eBook: Advanced Pricing Strategies for Maximum Competitive Advantage

Pricing Research

To help business leaders navigate this unprecedented terrain, Martec Group has updated and republished our popular Pricing eBook that examines three such strategies in detail, including some of our own proprietary and unique methodologies. 

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Price Modeling: Applying Science When Data is Scarce

Pricing Research

Historically high and stubbornly persistent inflation in recent years has wreaked havoc on more than just consumers’ wallets. It has also had the effect of throwing many companies’ pricing strategies out of whack and into question. Rather than play a hunch, the smart money is on a proven methodology for setting pricing strategy based on hard facts, figures and formulas.

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Case Study: Franchisor Takes 5-D Approach to Optimize Customer Experience

Customer Experience & Journey Mapping, Chemicals

The customer experience research objective was to take Martec’s 5-D insights approach to study client experiences, understand the true voice of customer, and engineer the customer journey to maximize engagement and customer satisfaction.

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Competitive Price Benchmarking: Advantage in Price-Sensitive Times

Pricing Research

Too often companies only consider their own pricing strategies when it might be wiser to consider them within the full context of competitive pricing. Making decisions without analyzing a comprehensive set of data can lead to missteps and missed opportunities—opportunities to increase market share, penetrate new and adjacent markets, assume premium position in the market, or increase profit margins by examining the entire value chain against competitive pricing.

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Confidence in Pricing Strategies in Times of Volatility

Pricing Research

In uncertain times, determining the optimal price for your products or updating your pricing strategy can be challenging. However, several research-based tools can help simplify the process and provide market-based insights to ground your decisions in customer-centric data. You should consider a pricing research study when you are: - Shifting your pricing strategy - Developing new products - Entering new markets When designed correctly, pricing research can predict customer behavior based on price, as well as the impact a price increase (or decrease) may have on revenue, margins, market share, or customer perceptions. Insights gathered through this type of research can provide the information you need to make informed pricing strategy decisions with greater confidence.

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Exploring Conjoint Analysis Methods

Innovation Research, Voice of Customer

Conjoint analysis is a powerful tool and can be used to quantify a number of metrics, including product/feature value; trade-offs customers are willing to make; and, in some cases, price elasticity for a product, feature or brand. Adaptive choice-based conjoint

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Product Concept Development and Testing: How to Design an Innovative Solution

Innovation Research

Concept development and testing is a crucial phase in innovation research. A hybrid qualitative and quantitative approach can increase the odds of creating disruptive innovation and generating consumer uptake.

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