Spice - Online Panel System to Create Product Ideas and Develop Concepts

Smis Product Idea Creation SMIS is New product development / Improvement Collect ideas Help create new concepts and valuesSpice collects consumer-oriented and creative opinions directly and quickly from well-trained, highly sensitive online panelists. These data will be used for extracting new product ideas and for concept development and improvements.

Spice Screening and Training of Panelists

sMoni General Consumer Panel (250,000 people)Screening of highly-sensitive panelistsSpice panelists (500 people) Among sMoni panelists, select highly-sensitive, active panelists with an active life style. Institute regular training to improve their creativity and flexible mind-set.

Fieldwork (extracting ideas)

Subject / Posing questionResponse from Spice PanelistsFiltering of ideas, feedback to Spice panelistsEvaluation and feedback process is repeated.Evaluation among Spice panelistsSelecting highly receptive ideas

Features of Spice panelists

Highly Sensitive Panelists

After a sensitive index screening, 500 appropriate panelists are selected from SMIS' own online panel, sMoni.

Proprietary Online Panel by SMIS

High Quality as a Result of Training

Ideas are polished and enhanced by regularly checking panelists' attributes and life-style sensitivity through thought provoking questions, and by sending feedback to facilitate collaborative evaluation and idea exchange.

Creative and Original Responses

Through examining panelists' awareness and actual lifestyle conditions, we are able to gather creative and original ideas and opinions, which may have been overlooked by product developers.

Application examples

Spice can be used at different stages for new product development / product improvement.

  • Product Idea Extract
    • Extract product ideas from the beginning
    • Discover target segments and usage options of high potential
    • Search for product ideas and differentiating elements from similar product categories
  • Concept Development Screening
    • Interest in product benefits / verification of appeal
    • Search for higher acceptability (i.e., how can we improve?)
    • Narrow down concepts
  • Product Development Improvement
    • Search for usage ideas for the actual product (after a trial use)
    • Extract ideas for product attributes (function, design, package, palatability, name, etc.)
    • Usage and application / images and scenes of product use

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Proprietary Online Panel by SMIS

  • Domestic Online Panel sMoni
  • Overseas online panels COMCOM STATION
  • NTT DATA SMIS
  • Our Service
  • Corporate
  • System Development

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