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For example, he said, Royco, a Knorr brand in Indonesia, was reformulated to be more nutritious and taste better, which moved the brand “from parity to decisively winning in product testing” so that ...

Product design is in a moment of profound change and redefinition as technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and spatial computing dramatically affect computing experiences. AI, especially, may ...

Smithfield offers strong value as a transformed, higher-margin packaged meats leader trading at a discount to Tyson and ...

We are all in the business of solving problems — big and small, everyday and unexpected. Whether you work in customer service, sales, supply chain, marketing, product, finance, or the c-suite, your ...

Innovation has always been important in tech, but with the focus on profitability and measured growth, product innovation must be executed in a way that yields the highest ROI possible. With the fear ...

For decades, chocolate dominated the confectionery category. But over the past 20 years a quiet shift has been underway: ...

In the age of "data is the new oil," product teams are increasingly leveraging vast amounts of data to fuel innovation. However, many product initiatives, irrespective of having enough data, fail. The ...

One of the first events at the American Cleaning Institute’s weeklong annual conference is a ceremony at which the consumer-product maker Henkel hands out awards to its raw material suppliers for ...

The combination of cloud-based software with data and artificial intelligence has transformed product development. Across industries, new offerings are being released with greater speed and innovation ...

Sustainability might not be the first thing you think of when you crack open a can of cold soda, but Athina Kanioura, chief strategy and transformation officer at PepsiCo, says a desire to create a ...

In this paper we analyze the joint implications of two effects: (a) inserting independent profit-maximizing retailers into the channel system provides "buffering" to the manufacturers from price ...