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<title>The Hormonal Fingerprint: A New Approach to Product Development</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:19:00 +0100</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;We just established that our perception of taste, and also of colors and shapes is directly linked to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hormonal-fingerprint.com&quot;&gt;Hormonal Fingerprint&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This fascinating breakthrough - confirmed by scientific measurements performed on 500 people from over 25 countries - offers endless opportunities in the field of new product development and commercialization.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Our client&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;nfakPe&quot;&gt;Vidya&lt;/span&gt; Sagar Gannamani, Category Leader, Beverage Appliances at Philips, shares:&amp;nbsp;&quot;&lt;i&gt;We discovered and experienced with Prof. Diana Derval the Hormonal Fingerprint. This remarkable biological fact explains why our perception of taste is at the same time unique and predictable&lt;/i&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Learn more about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hormonal-fingerprint.com&quot;&gt;Hormonal Fingerprint&lt;/a&gt; in this 6mn video clip, produced in partnership with COPUS 2009 Year of Science and NEMO Science Center.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;295&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; data=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/gA1g8kumo38&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot; /&gt; &lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot; /&gt; &lt;param name=&quot;src&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/gA1g8kumo38&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&quot; /&gt; &lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot; /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;You can read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://derval.blogspirit.com/archive/2009/02/17/dervalresearch-discovers-a-link-between-the-perception-of-ta.html#more&quot;&gt;Press Release here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
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<title>Do You Know Your Target Customers?</title>
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<author>noreply@blogspirit.com (Diana Derval)</author>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Quick-Wins for your Company</title>
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<author>noreply@blogspirit.com (Diana Derval)</author>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;I cannot afford to waste my time making money&lt;/em&gt;.&quot; Louis Agassiz&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;media-41422&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin: 0.2em 1.4em 0.7em 0px; border-width: 0px&quot; alt=&quot;8826d6ca1639b32e7025a321118c64de.jpg&quot; src=&quot;http://derval.blogspirit.com/media/02/02/5e83ffa86bdb9219ebcdb7e6faeccb9a.jpg&quot; name=&quot;media-41422&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Firms lose 15 to 20 percent of their turnover because their product doesn't suit their customers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Here are some &lt;span style=&quot;color: #800080;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quick-Wins&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for your company:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Conduct an &lt;strong&gt;opportunity&lt;/strong&gt; and a &lt;strong&gt;feasibility study&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;color: #800080;&quot;&gt;before&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;color: #800080;&quot;&gt;deciding&lt;/span&gt; to launch a new product&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Get consumers &lt;strong&gt;interviews&lt;/strong&gt; and input &lt;span style=&quot;color: #800080;&quot;&gt;before designing&lt;/span&gt; your product&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Do &lt;strong&gt;beta-testing&lt;/strong&gt; with representative users &lt;span style=&quot;color: #800080;&quot;&gt;before freezing&lt;/span&gt; your commercialization strategy&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Our Research team will help you avoid costly errors with your customers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
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