Colin Conway

Quick Suite

A set of products that fuel breakthrough innovation for brands by providing holistic consumer views.

Quick Screen image and description
Quick Screen image and description
Quick Screen image and description

The 50,000 foot view
(or 15240 meters)

Core functionality is shared within three interoperable, systemic products distinctive in their respective value propositions. Differentiated by their source points in survey exercises, multiple data sets are captured exclusively for reporting and delivery to clients.

KEY SUCCESSES:
  • Competitive response and agile in-market adjustments
  • Fast development cycles from leveraging previous tactical platform feature
BACKSTORY

Enduring an acquisition, a project I was working on signaled business need for a struggling analog product, atrophied from years of customization that enabled organizational inconsistency. Fast forward two years, the effort blossomed into the first standardized product, Quick Predict. The upfront diligence for streamlined workflows, collaboration and interactive reporting features were later leveraged by platform newcomers Quick Screen and Quick Use, reducing development time for each.

As a concatenation of features mapping to the core compentency of the Nielsen BASES business and a database of over 300,000 tested innovations, Quick Suite empowers clients with in-market data at their fingertips, predictive metrics and actionable recommendations.

Quick Screen

PROJECT RUNDOWN:

Ancillary to Quick Predict, Quick Screen’s lightweight service generates results in as soon as one day. As a value-add, it’s useful for clients with smaller budgets to validate market demand before going deeper into the innovative process.

TAKEAWAYS:
  • Generated ~$20M in revenue; additive to the core competency of the Nielsen BASES businesss
  • Delivers overnight answers to clients
EXCLUSIVE FEATURES

Test up to 40 ideas in an overnight survey and access interactive results as soon as data is ready

Ideas are ranked by consumers in choice-based exercises.

Metrics of ranked ideas give clarity on what to pursue and avoid for innovation.

OUTCOME

As the first pillar of the Quick Suite, Quick Screen has been instrumental in bringing high performing ideas into tested concepts in which many have become successful products in market. In preventive cases, Quick Screen has also saved clients billions of dollars in aggregate from potential market loss on risky innovations.

Quick Predict

PROJECT RUNDOWN:

The first BASES analog to digital overhaul where opportunities to improve and automate process were abundant. As a result, clients can create concepts, test, communicate and measure market potential — all within a smaller time frame. I was responsible for the design of multiple systemic touchpoints throughout the application, from microinteractions to intricate features, and most importantly, the interactive reporting deliverables leveraged by all sibling products.

TAKEAWAYS:
  • First product built on the Studio platform that set the tone for product success
  • Up to 70% reduced project completion time
  • Historical cross-project performance testing for retroactive comparison
  • 40-60% conversion rates from analog solutions per quarter (up to 90%)
  • Generated an excess of $25M in revenue since launch
EXCLUSIVE FEATURES

Insights for convenient and immediate answers.

Line up concepts to compare from previous projects.

Performance & Analysis overview for Top Concepts across all metrics.

Target Groups Analysis: Biggest analytical innovation in 15 years.

Individual Deliverables & Filtering for granular analysis.

Access to multiple samples and segment groups of consumers.

OUTCOME

Quick Predict was the first product launched on the Studio platform which ushered a major organizational shift to digital products and increased profit. It has also been pivotal in laying a foundation for following products, Quick Screen, Quick Use, and many more in progress. As it continues to improve the business’ bottom line, more features and deliverables are added as methodologies evolve.

Quick Use

PROJECT RUNDOWN:

Built upon its predecessor on the Studio platform, Quick Use is a standalone product used as an extension to Quick Predict that provides additional diagnostics from two distinctive fieldings for pre-use and trial-use data sets. Participants in the survey process are first asked about sentiments on potential products (pre-use) and later asked to evaluate them after manufacturing (trial-use) which is compared to quantify perceptions, potency, and market opportunity.

TAKEAWAYS:
  • The launch of Quick Use has greatly increased adoption of the entire Quick Suite by more than tripling YoY.
  • Increased bookings has been catalytic in turning the BASES business around into profitability.
EXCLUSIVE FEATURES

Data layering

Correlative Data

Dynamic analysis

OUTCOME

Quick Use has helped transform many successful ideas and concepts previously tested in Quick Screen and Quick Predict to market as tangible and useful products. As such, it has become BASES’ flagship product on the entire Studio platform that aligns in-market volumetric forecasting for products to their pre-market successes within the original ideation process.