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Better products through virtual product validation
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BETTER PRODUCTS THROUGH VIRTUAL PRODUCT VALIDATION
Michiel CambronInnovation & Design ConsultantMichiel.Cambron@verhaert.com
METHODOLOGIES & TOOLS
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IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COMEWho systematically validates concepts/ideas ?
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THE CORPORATE BEAST
It’s all about Product Push – We make the customer
love it.
We know what our customer wants and will
pay for.
The Proud Businessman
Our product is superior than our competition, we are leading.
Ensuring future we just need to
innovate to cut our costs.
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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FLOW
• Yes, We know how to validate.
• Yes, we focus on validating once we have our first product in the market.
• Yes, The risk of failure is the highest in the early stage.
• Yes, The cost of failure is the highest at the end of the process.
• Yes, We should focus on failing fast early on.
Effort Validation
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OPPORTUNITY INNOVATION
Risk of failure
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HYPERLOCAL CROWBAR
• Act Global – Think Local• Different customer segments
allocated in different areas with each of them their own preferences and characteristics.
• Make validation happen in a cost-effective way.
• Understand the difference: Marketing is all about Demographics & Geographics
• Honestly can you define a new product out of this information: “ He is a man, single, has two kids and works as a farmer”
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NEED FOR R&D DATA METABOLISM
• Higher Data Metabolism• We used to talk now we generate
a massive amount of data.• Tap into the dimensions of web and
mobile technologies.• Communication: Get connected worldwide,
follow interaction real time.
• Conceptualization: Share your vision on products in an easy way and attractable way through 2D and 3D visualizations.
• Computation: Iterate while you are gathering information & generate accurate data points which gives useful knowledge.
• Big Data & R&D Management go hand in hand!
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PRODUCT MANAGEMENT FLOW – A CONTINIOUS PROCESS
OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT
PRODUCT CONCEPT PRODUCT DEFINITION PROTOTYPING
TECH
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RAT
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IDEA GENERATIONLAUNCH
What do we learn?
CREDIBILITY
Market analytics
Conjoint analysis
Conjoint analysis
Conjoint analysis
Conjoint analysis
Sentiment analysis
UsabilityProduct
value perception
Concept preferenceJTBWhat will
thrive 2020?
VALUENEEDS
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Needs
Value
Credibility
PRODUCT MANAGEMENTNeeds and values
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WHEN DOES VALIDATION TAKE PLACE IN THE PROCESS ?
DESIGN INPUTDESIGN RESEARCHDESIGN WORKDESIGN VALIDATIONDESIGN OUTPUT
THESWEET SPOT
DESIGN INPUTDESIGN RESEARCHDESIGN WORKDESIGN VALIDATIONDESIGN OUTPUT
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OPPORTUNITY: FUZZY FRONT END
NEEDS & MOTIVATION
PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTES
FEATURE PREFERENCES
CONCEPT PREFERENCES
PRODUCT VALUE PERCEPTION USABILITY
What are different jobs to be done? What motivates the user and purchase? What are unmet needs? What are the biggest pains, concerns? How success is measured ?
(Satisfaction * Importance)
Belief
F(Needs) =
Global CMO Study – IBM
82% of CMOs plan to increase social media use during the next three to five years, only 26% are currently tracking blogs, 42% are tracking third-party reviews, and 48% are tracking consumer reviews to help shape their marketing strategies.
56% of CMOs view social media as a key engagement channel, but they still struggle with capturing valuable customer insight from the unstructured data that customers and potential customers produce.
Sentiment Analyze
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OPPORTUNITY: FUZZY FRONT END
𝑶 ≔ ƒ(𝑺, 𝑰) : OPPORTUNITY is a function of SATISFACTION and IMPORTANCE
Opportunities for innovation exist when a need is important and not well satisfied. The more important a need is, and the less satisfied customers are, the greater the opportunity for value creation. The opportunity algorithm makes it possible to rank different needs.
The opportunity landscape model gives an overview of which jobs are over - or under -served.
Overserved jobs have high satisfaction and low importance. There is potential for disruption, to reduce or eliminate certain features that address these needs in existing products.
Underserved jobs have low satisfaction and high importance. These unmet needs represent opportunities. Increasing or creating features that address these needs can attract new users to a product.
NEEDS & MOTIVATION
PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTES
FEATURE PREFERENCES
CONCEPT PREFERENCES
PRODUCT VALUE PERCEPTION USABILITY
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OPPORTUNITY & IDEA GENERATION: FUZZY FRONT END
• Analyze the unstructured customer feedback through any communication channel (email, call center, surveys, social media) and manage their experience in all their contact points with the company.
• Example Dell Client Command SuiteEach client request is mapped and reviewed for possible insights.
• Example Stihl Chainsaw
NEEDS & MOTIVATION
PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTES
FEATURE PREFERENCES
CONCEPT PREFERENCES
PRODUCT VALUE PERCEPTION USABILITY
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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT VALIDATION STUDIES
NEEDS & MOTIVATION
PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTES
FEATURE PREFERENCES
CONCEPT PREFERENCES
PRODUCT VALUE PERCEPTION USABILITY
To determine importance of different features. To understand a preferred option for each feature. Calculate utility values for each feature. What combination of features would be preferred.
F (Importance of feature * desirability of specific feature)
Utility Value =
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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT VALIDATION STUDIES
NEEDS & MOTIVATION
PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTES
FEATURE PREFERENCES
CONCEPT PREFERENCES
PRODUCT VALUE PERCEPTION USABILITY
F (Importance of feature * desirability of specific feature)
Utility Value =To understand perception of different product concepts in relation to the key product promises. What product has the highest market acceptance potential? What are positive and negative perception factors? What is the logics of decision making? To understand trade offs driven by specific features.
1. For each set of stimuli, respondents click on those cards, in no particular order, that they would be “likely to buy.”
2. Respondents then click on cards that they would be “unlikely to buy.” Others are added to the “not sure” group.
3. Respondents rank order stimuli within each of the “likely,” “not sure,” or “unlikely” groups by clicking on profiles in order of preference.
4. Finally, the “likely,” “not sure,” and “unlikely” groups are “stitched” together to create the rank order of all stimuli for analysis.
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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT VALIDATION STUDIES
VS
Prototyping
NEEDS & MOTIVATION
PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTES
FEATURE PREFERENCES
CONCEPT PREFERENCES
PRODUCT VALUE PERCEPTION USABILITY
To understand perception of different product concepts based on the look & feel experience. To learn about criticalities in decision making. What product version would/have the highest market acceptance.
F (Importance of feature * desirability of specific feature)
Utility Value =
Live Prototyping
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PROTOTYPING
Source: David Aycan and Paolo Lorenzoni (HBR)
RAPID PROTOTYPING
PILOTTECHNICAL PROTOTYPING
LIVE PROTOTYPING
Question answered
What are the different ways we could solve this problem?
Does our message and solution resonate in the market?
Can the problem be solved in this specific way?
Are the economics attractive enough to justify scaling?
When to employ it in the product development process
Early, to explore many ways to achieve a goal and periodically during the mid-phase to explore ways to deliver a specific feature or value driver.
Midway, to rigorously explore market appeal once a specific opportunity area has been identified.
When technical feasibility is in question or when the function has been identified but the specific means is yet to be determined.
Late, as a final check to tweak details before launching at scale.
Fidelity Low. Just enough for the product to appear real in the marketplace.
High enough to prove feasibility.
Very High. Pilots require a working solution and are often more polished than the scalable versions to overcome initial market awareness challenges.
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Product Development Validation Studies
Technology Push
Change Pull
NEEDS & MOTIVATION
PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTES
FEATURE PREFERENCES
CONCEPT PREFERENCES
PRODUCT VALUE PERCEPTION USABILITY
Collect insights on the usability & key values. Collect insights on preferred options & appreciation of different features potential trade offs. Collect insights on overall use experience.
Acceptance =
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ENHANCING CLASSIC DESIGN VALIDATION WITH VIRTUAL TECHNIQUES
CLASSIC DESIGN VALIDATIONS
VIRTUAL DESIGN VALIDATIONSObservations are used to observe what a person does and what their preferences are.
F.E. Heat Mapping Techniques can be used to see how people interact with a 2D or 3D model of a concept.
ConsiderationsVirtual Techniques are in certain instances a complimentary technique which can enable cost effective first validations but need to added with classic design validations.
NEEDS & MOTIVATION
PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTES
FEATURE PREFERENCES
CONCEPT PREFERENCES
PRODUCT VALUE PERCEPTION USABILITY
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Needs
Value
Credibility
PRODUCT MANAGEMENTCredibility
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Does it work as we want to?What doesn’t and why?
Do people use it?Do they like it?
What have we learned?What do we need to improve?
Does it create the value we thought it would?Do all business areas are in line?
MINIMUM VIABLE (PRE)PRODUCT LAUNCH
TECHNOLOGYFEASIBLE
PEOPLEDESIRABLE
BUSINESSVIABLE
THESWEET SPOT
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• Equip your 1st gen with a gateway
• Define what you want to monitor (and why)
• Attach sensors & touchpoints to your product
• Define an interface & monitor the activity
• Define a system to draw conclusions/learn (e.g. algorithms)
• Connect to your system, users, stakeholders
An additional approach to obtain feedback
REMOTE MONITORING
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Google maps: appliance locations
• Monitoring: bottle volume, consumption, temperature, …
INTERFACE EXAMPLE (HARD FEEDBACK)
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Needs
Value
Credibility
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
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SETTING UP A SYSTEM
Front-end systemWeb and mobile conceptualization
Back-end systemComputing
User base Learning core
Project management capabilities
IoT
Reporting
INPUT
INPU
TM
ANAG
EMEN
T
OUTPUT
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THE JIGSAW PUZZLE OF AN ONLINE VALIDATION ECOSYSTEM
Which kind of frameworks do we use to get out of that data real useful information and knowledge ?
Which model suit for which situation ?
Getting into Analytics … Much more than just Programming code.
Back-End Organization & Computation
Front-End Visualization
What kind of questions do we need to ask? How do we ask them?
Which phase are we in and what do we want to know and how is this best used in app format?
Respondent Incentive & InteractionHow to ensure that people are activated to participate?
Making sure that they behave in a way like they would do in a non virtual environment?
Customer PopulationIt’s all about finding the right profiles and getting them on the web.
B2C Profiles piece of cake, B2B is for real chefs?
Specialized Agency (Fieldwork, SchlesingerAssociates) or building your own community ( VPS Community)
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CONCLUSIONAre we ready to all become Product Developers ?
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