Management Practice Insights
DOI: 10.59571/mpi.v1i1.1
Year: 2023, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 4-7
Original Article
Janakiraman Moorthy 1,*
1 Professor in the Department of Marketing, SPJIMR, India
*Correspondance: [email protected]
Received Date:21 November 2022, Accepted Date:14 March 2023, Published Date:09 May 2023
Problem of Practice: The future of a company rides on the success of new products. Not only are sales and marketing teams on the hook for topline numbers, but production capacity, supply chain and working capital requirements also need to line up. However, every major new product launch faces uncertainty, as it is hard to accurately forecast customer adoption by using traditional marketing research. But now research by Harz and team recommends a novel solution: having potential customers interact with the planned product using virtual reality (VR). Combined with the right statistical models, VR-based interactions yield more reliable data for product analytics and improvement than traditional methods
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