Best Practices

There's no doubt that quickly and accurately unlocking insights from retailer data can yield enormous benefits for consumer goods firms. Here, the manufacturer of stationary products, lighters and shavers, explains how it had put an enterprise DSR to good use.

CIOs need to change their mindset and start considering the MES as a corporate-wide business application. A new report from IDC Manufacturing Insights analyzes the top global Manufacturing Execution System vendors in order to help you select the right application.

This article analyzes 40 of the largest players in the consumer packaged goods world and how they have been able to build up enough reputation capital to become the world's most reputable industry in 2010.

Consumer products executives have anopportunity to realize competitive advantage through a new set of metrics thatare tailored toward their specific organizational structure, strategy and goals.

Adoption has skyrocketed as social networking now accounts for 11 percent of all time spent online in the United States. But how do businesses capitalize on this trend? New research from CGT and Wipro answers this burning question.

A new independent innovation research center will focus on revolutionizing product design and development for consumers aged 50 and above in Asia.

Daveyoutlines core strategies of companies that innovate successfully and offers hisperspective on balancing innovation with other corporate imperatives.

A novelapproach to market research called Rapid Innovation Sessions (RIS) allowedKimberly-Clark to quickly create, design and evaluate 67 new product ideas overthe course of just three weeks.