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Ipsos launches InnoExplorer
Mumbai: Ipsos, one of the world’s leading market research companies, powers its suite of innovation solutions with generative AI, enhancing the speed and success rate of innovations.
As part of Ipsos’ journey to augment every stage of the product lifecycle with artificial intelligence, Ipsos is pleased to launch InnoExplorer, a game-changing capability, which has been proven to accelerate innovation cycles from months to days and improve success rates with plus nine per cent higher trial potential for new concepts and plus ten per cent overall liking for new products.
With the power of generative and analytical AI, InnoExplorer enables business leaders, marketers, and research professionals to quickly generate new ideas, concepts, products, and packages, directly from consumers’ unmet needs and accurately predict their potential.
Ipsos’ global service line leader for innovation & product development Virginia Weil has stated: “Grounded in Ipsos’ high-quality data sets, prompt engineering and data science, InnoExplorer represents a new frontier in innovation development – where clients can bring more curiosity, creativity and rigor into their innovation process with the confidence to go further.”
Given the critical role that data plays in training AI models, InnoExplorer is built on unique generative and analytical AI models designed to continuously reflect consumers’ evolving expectations, with:
. High-quality data sets from Ipsos’ vast consumer databases of 150,000 plus concepts and six plus million verbatims.
. Authentic consumer data that is relevant to the product category, representative of the target audience and traceable to avoid hallucinations.
. Tailored prompts, engineered with over 40 years of innovation know-how at every stage of product development.
The solution is readily available in over 90 markets worldwide, with plans for further product enhancements through an agile platform.
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IndiGo names William Walsh CEO
Former IATA chief to take charge in August after Elbers exit, Bhatia steers interim
India’s biggest airline has moved fast and gone global. InterGlobe Aviation, which operates IndiGo, has tapped aviation heavyweight William Walsh as chief executive officer, subject to regulatory approvals, marking a sharp pivot as the carrier eyes its next burst of expansion.
Walsh, currently director general at the International Air Transport Association, will step down on July 31, 2026, and is expected to take charge by August 3. The appointment comes barely three weeks after Pieter Elbers exited the corner office, with Rahul Bhatia holding the fort in the interim.
The choice signals intent. Walsh brings decades of cockpit-to-boardroom experience, having led British Airways and later International Airlines Group, the parent of Aer Lingus, Iberia and Vueling. His tenure across carriers has been defined by hard resets, restructurings and cross-border consolidation—skills IndiGo may need as competition intensifies and scale becomes decisive.
Vikram Singh Mehta, chairman and non-executive independent director of IndiGo, said Walsh’s experience in managing large-scale airline operations and navigating complex market dynamics makes him well-suited to lead IndiGo in an increasingly competitive global aviation environment, adding that the appointment marks a new chapter as the airline scales in one of the world’s fastest-growing markets.
Rahul Bhatia said Walsh’s global perspective, operational expertise and customer-focused approach would be critical as IndiGo enters its next phase of expansion.
Walsh, widely regarded as one of the industry’s most influential figures, will oversee overall management and strategic direction, with a mandate spanning operational performance, network expansion, commercial strategy and customer experience. He is expected to work closely with the board and leadership team to sharpen IndiGo’s growth trajectory.
Walsh said IndiGo has a strong foundation and is well-positioned to capitalise on the evolving aviation landscape, adding that he looks forward to fostering a culture of excellence, innovation and sustainable value creation across the organisation.
A new captain, a bigger runway—and a market that rewards scale. IndiGo is lining up for its next take-off.
