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Product Redesign and Innovation Based on Online Reviews: A Multistage Combined Search Method

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  • Jindong Qin

    (School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China; Research Center for Data Science and Intelligent Decision Making, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China)

  • Pan Zheng

    (School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China)

  • Xiaojun Wang

    (Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom)

Abstract

Online reviews published on the e-commerce platform provide a new source of information for designers to develop new products. Past research on new product development (NPD) using user-generated textual data commonly focused solely on extracting and identifying product features to be improved. However, the competitive analysis of product features and more specific improvement strategies have not been explored deeply. This study fully uses the rich semantic attributes of online review texts and proposes a novel online review–driven modeling framework. This new approach can extract fine-grained product features; calculate their importance, performance, and competitiveness; and build a competitiveness network for each feature. As a result, decision making is assisted, and specific product improvement strategies are developed for NPD beyond existing modeling approaches in this domain. Specifically, online reviews are first classified into redesign- and innovation-related themes using a multiple embedding model, and the redesign and innovation product features can be extracted accordingly using a mutual information multilevel feature extraction method. Moreover, the importance and performance of features are calculated, and the competitiveness and competitiveness network of features are obtained through a personalized unidirectional bipartite graph algorithm. Finally, the importance performance competitiveness analysis plot is constructed, and the product improvement strategy is developed via a multistage combined search algorithm. Case studies and comparative experiments show the effectiveness of the proposed method and provide novel business insights for stakeholders, such as product providers, managers, and designers.

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  • Jindong Qin & Pan Zheng & Xiaojun Wang, 2024. "Product Redesign and Innovation Based on Online Reviews: A Multistage Combined Search Method," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 36(3), pages 742-765, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orijoc:v:36:y:2024:i:3:p:742-765
    DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.2022.0333
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