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Ipsos Launches Product Intelligence, a new product testing tool
MUMBAI: Combining its expertise in social intelligence with its strong heritage in product testing, Ipsos has launched Product Intelligence – a new state-of-the-art solution that enables marketers to evaluate products faster and more efficiently than traditional product testing, using online user ratings and reviews.
The new Product Intelligence approach gathers consumer feedback on in-market products and uses a product testing lens to analyze the social data. The approach uses leading-edge text analytics, bolstered by human intelligence, to provide in-depth product performance insights based on unfiltered consumer feedback. Notably, marketers learn which product features drive satisfaction and gain an understanding of their product’s strengths and weaknesses, and further uncover how their product performs versus real-world competition.
Innovation & Product Testing, Executive Director, Vidya Sen, Ipsos India is gung-ho about the offering as it fits in well with the clients’ scheme of things, as they are constrained for time and seek a handle on how consumers are engaging with their products and services: “Product Intelligence leverages cutting edge technology to offer timely feedback and cost efficiencies and provides rich consumer-centric data. Enabling clients gain deep insights into how consumers express their opinions about their products in real life and in real-time, helps in securing for clients a significant competitive advantage in developing superior products and finding innovation opportunities.”
Product Intelligence is part of Ipsos’ suite of product and package testing solutions, which includes leading-edge approaches across the product life cycle such as device agnostic surveys, video analytics, online eye-tracking, non-conscious measurement, and virtual reality for testing in realistic environments.
Brands
Skoda VW India names Nitin Selot executive director for finance, IT and legal affairs
Selot to lead finance and IT at six-brand India operation
NEW DELHI: Škoda Auto Volkswagen India Private Limited has appointed Nitin Selot as executive director for finance, IT and legal affairs, effective 19 February 2026, as the carmaker sharpens its focus on India as a core growth market.
Selot will serve as chief financial officer of the Indian arm, overseeing financial steering, governance and technology transformation at a time when the group is reworking internal processes and tightening operational discipline.
The company manages six brands in India: Skoda, Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini and Porsche and operates manufacturing plants in Pune and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
Škoda Auto board member for finance, IT and legal affairs Holger Peters, said Selot’s appointment comes at a pivotal moment, with India now the company’s most important market outside Europe. Strengthening financial controls, improving governance and building long-term resilience are central to the group’s strategy, he added.
Skoda Auto Volkswagen India managing director and CEO Piyush Arora, said the group is entering a new phase driven by productivity gains and a stronger local-for-local approach. Robust financial planning and agile IT systems, he said, will be critical to sustaining momentum.
Selot brings 35 years of leadership experience across industrial, consumer and energy businesses. He has previously held senior roles at JCB India, Compass Group India, Shell and Mars Wrigley.
He holds an ACMA from the Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of India, an MBA in finance from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, and an ACS from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.
