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Tema 10 Desarrollo de Negocios Inteligentes
Tema 10 Desarrollo de Negocios Inteligentes
Coupey, cap. 9
Objetivos de Aprendizaje
How does General Mills so accurately predict peoples’ tastes? The answer lies in extensive market research. Throughout its
nearly 150-year history, the company has tracked and analyzed the American palate. Using mall intercepts and phone
surveys, General Mills has gathered insights into the complex love affair between people and their food, and how it’s
packaged. Research results led the company to develop two organic food brands, to revamp Betty Crocker — currently in
her eighth iteration — and to offer a line of Cheerios brand products, among other things.
With the Internet, General Mills is able to collect even more information from its customers. For instance, the company used
the Internet to conduct a taste test for a new Bugles snack flavor. Although the snacks arrived via snail mail, they came with
a Web address and an invitation to sign up to take part in an online survey. The Internet approach worked well. Customers
liked the comfort, convenience, and privacy of completing the survey at home. The company liked the savings in time and
cost; time to field the study was cut from a typical 2-week time frame to mere days, and the cost dropped from $15,000 to
$5,000.1
General Mills has been happy with its foray into online research. So happy, in fact, that it plans to move more and more of
its market research to the Internet. The company had more than 60 percent of its research activity online prior to 2002, and it
continues to seek out new ways to use the Internet to develop consumer insight.
For instance, in 2001, the company pushed its efforts to use the Internet to gain consumer insight by introducing a sample
set of consumers to MyCereal.com. The site measured customers’ individual taste preferences and health characteristics,
thus accumulating a hefty store of descriptive information. Using a person’s data, the site suggested ingredients and
combinations for individual cereals; participants could mix their own cereals, delivered to the door for around $7 a box, plus
shipping. Although the experiment in custom cereals was short-lived, it served the company’s purposes, stimulating interest
and increasing satisfaction with the company’s other cereal brands. In addition, it provided a valuable database of
information about preferred tastes and configurations of ingredients.
General Mills
Es un proceso de 2 etapas:
I. Qué queremos saber: Definir el problema
II. Como podemos aprender: Desarrollar el
plan de investigación, recoger datos,
analizar los datos, extraer conclusions.
Tipos de Fuentes de Datos online
Dos dimensiones:
Quien recolecta los datos (fuente de datos)
Quien proporciona los datos
Fuentes de Internet basado en Clientes