Links to training & resources to inform your innovation, optimise your product development & evolve your portfolio. Learn how to take your ideas to a commercial reality.
Innovation
- Diploma in Innovation Management for Food & Beverage Manufacturing (Training Course)
- Open Innovation (Training Course)
- Innovation: The Food Industry (Training Course)
- Innovation: From Plan to Product (Training Course)
- Innovation Training Series (Training Videos)
- Idea Development: Create & Implement Innovative Ideas (Training Course)
- Introduction to Design Thinking & People Centred Design (Training Course)
- The secret Power of Brands (Training Course)
- Consumer Perception, Emotion & Cognition (Training Course)
- Diploma in Consumer Psychology (Training Course)
- Intellectual Property Management in the Food Sector (Training Course)
- Retail Fundamentals (Training Course)
- The art of innovation (Training Video)
- 10 Templates for your Innovation Process
- Journal of Innovation Management
- Journal of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Marketing
- Introduction to Marketing (Training Course)
- Diploma in Marketing Management (Training Course)
- Understanding Your Audience: Market Segmentation (Training Course)
- E-Commerce – Introduction to Internet Marketing Strategies for Businesses (Training Course)
- Create a Social Media Marketing Campaign (Training Course)
- Retail Management – Merchandising, Distribution & Marketing (Training Course)
- Marketing Analytics: Competitive Analysis & Market Segmentation (Training Course)
- Diploma in Social Media Strategy (Training Course)
Innovation Toolkits
- Food Values Questionnaire
- Assessing New Markets Questionnaire
- Product Opportunities Questionnaire
- New Product Design Brief Template
- Brand Agency Brief for Labels & Artwork (Template)
- Package Opportunities Questionnaire
- Package Design Checklist
- Package Interaction Guidelines
- Innovation Process Infographic
- Consumer Sensory Infographic
Food Trends
- Top 10 Global Food Trends 2020
- 2019 Food Trends
- Consumer Lifestyle Trends
- The New Face of Private Label: Global Market Trends to 2018
Product Development
- New Product Development (Training Course)
- Product Management Fundamentals (Training Course)
- Portfolio Analysis in a Food Business (Training Video)
- Entering a New Market Tutorial (Training Video)
- What does your company stand for? (Training Video)
- Explore Product Opportunities (Training Video)
- Product Opportunities Questionnaire
- Creating New Foods: The Product Developers Guide
- Selecting & Managing New Product Ideas
- NPD Strategy & Planning
- New Product Design Brief Explained
- Establishing Effective Metrics for NPD Success
- Product Testing in PD
- How to Create a Product Concept Test
Package & Label Development Resources
- Package Development Process
- Package Design
- Explore Package Opportunities (Training Video)
- Package Opportunities Questionnaire
- Package Design Checklist
- Package Interaction Guidelines
- American Package Museum
- Guide to Best Practices for Print
- The New Face of Private Label: Global Market Trends to 2018
- Clean Label Conferences Library
Our Manufacturing & Supply Chain page has additional information on Packaging
Useful Websites
- How to Implement Open Innovation: Lessons from MNC’s
- Good Practice Case Studies for Innovation
- Managing the Innovation Process (White Paper)
- Why Consumer Analytics Matter for Business Strategy
- Market Research for Market Readiness
- Basics of Sensory Evaluation, Tools, Techniques, Methods & Interpretation
- Food Analysis Using Artificial Senses
- Society of Sensory Professionals
- Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium
- Research Foreign Markets
- Retailing in the 21st Century
- The Food Bibliography (Food History)
- World Food Innovations
