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How We Do It

 
Utilizing our unique insight tactics in concert with our Trend-centric Human Behavior Model, we develop products and brands that are synchronized with the ‘real’ world. This is accomplished by continuously interfacing with experts and consumers in a micro and macro way throughout the process. Below are brief overviews of tactics that are deployed throughout the process or at times in an ad-hoc manner to augment on-going initiatives.

IDEATION SUMMITS – REACTOR!

  • 1 – 2 Day Sequestered Participation
  • Agency, Client and External Experts
  • Custom Intuitive Response Exercises
  • Relevant Venue and Stimulus
  • Pre-summit Insight Analysis/Dissemination

WORKSHOP FACILITATION

  • Brand, Product or Consumer Centric
  • Moderator led
  • Selection of purpose built exercises
  • Usually held on-campus

ETHNOGRAPHY

  • Pre-work: journals, collages, photos, etc.
  • Lifestyle Observation/Discussion led by academically certified and field trained Consumer Anthropologists
  • Conducted unobtrusively in Natural Habitat
  • Video Captured for Future Analysis

SEMIOTICS

Understanding culture through the analysis and decoding of the values and equities of signs and symbolism. Perception is reality and visual, olfactory, tactile and other touch-points are critical in understanding the best way for consumers to interact with: Brands, Products, Design, Communications, etc.

QUALITATIVE / QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

  • Focus Groups
  • Product Testing
  • Surveys
  • Segmentation Studies
  • Conjoint Analysis

VOICE OF CUSTOMER, COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION & RESEARCH COMMUNITIES 

  • Custom Recruited Panels
  • Custom Built Online Portal
  • Qualitative and Quantitative Capability
  • Ongoing Immediate Bellwether Resource
  • Cost effective

MARKET & TARGET IMMERSION

  • Individual or Team Excursions
  • Led by Experience Experts
  • Immersion Recording and Capture Directives for all participants
  • Post – Excursion Download Workshop

CUSTOM RECRUITING

  • Better Participants = Better Results
  • Eliminates “Professional Respondents”
  • Lifestyle and Passion Verticals
  • Friendship Pairs
  • Screened for Locution/Articulation
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