Innovating with Digital in Mind
Despite the relative commonness of online shopping today, many brands still have questions about how to best adapt their innovation strategies for the digital age. It should go without saying, but launching a product in a physical environment is not the same as doing so online. Yet as intuitive as...
Why You Must Take the Product Out of the Lab Before Launch
Product innovators and marketers spend an exorbitant amount of time and effort perfecting their products before they bring them to market. So, how do they know when the innovation is ready for launch?
The Art of Premiumisation: Stop Guessing, Start Innovating
Consumers are trading up—and not just on big-ticket items. For brands that get it right, this presents a big opportunity to differentiate their product portfolios, drive sales growth in increasingly competitive markets and engage with a much wider range of consumers.
The Path to Agile Innovation in a CPG World
Many CPG marketers are looking to use agile innovation, but Nielsen research has found that lifting an approach that works quite well for many technology companies may have less successful outcomes in CPG. To be successful, marketers need to adapt the agile development steps of design,...
Announcing the Top 25 Breakthrough Innovations
The Top 25 Breakthrough Innovations list celebrates recent product innovations across various FMCG categories in Europe.
From Fail Fast to Win Safe
Start-small strategies take several forms, but the effectiveness of these strategies is questionable when applied to large FMCG manufacturers, at least as a repeatable formula for success.
Authenticity is the Key Ingredient for Brands with Personality
Now more than ever, brands are “taking stands”—challenging the status quo, and their competitors. It’s a popular phrase, and an evolving idea in today’s social and political moment, not to mention over the past decade as corporate responsibility and sustainability has risen in prominence...
Is Your Competitive Intelligence Missing Innovation Intelligence?
Modern marketers have a number of tools to drive growth in the competitive environment which are supported by data to make confident decisions—like pricing, promotion, assortment and media. But when we talk to marketers about growth, no lever is cited more often than innovation.
Five Reasons To Prioritize Sustainability In Your Brand Playbook
To do it right, companies need to invest in truly understanding their consumers and embed sustainability into their brand’s foundation. Authenticity comes through the end-to-end integration of sustainability into your processes and complete transparency with consumers along the way.
Tapping into Growth after the Initial Innovation Fades
Even after the buzz of new product innovation wears off, growth is still possible. Here’s how a refined approach to price and promotion can amplify your brand proposition.