MICA launches Marketing Intelligence product MIMI

It helps assist businesses in making strategic marketing and business decisions in India's complex socio-cultural, political and demographical mix

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | March 8, 2013

Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) has launched a unique market intelligence product called MICA Indian Marketing Intelligence (MIMI) that assists businesses in making sound and strategic marketing and business decisions in India. India's complex socio-cultural, political and demographical mix can present challenges in terms of developing new products, identifying market segments, designing market-entry strategy and effectively launching products into different regional markets with greater variation.

Built around a unique data-fusion algorithm developed by the professors and researchers of MICA, MIMI fuses the variety of structured information, compiled from authentic sources, to provide a composite, granular market-view. It also provides Market Potential Index (MPI) and other data separately for rural, urban and total Indian market for more than 630 districts, hitherto not provided by any other similar product.

The main highlights of MIMI are:

Provides Market Potential Index: As one of the most acute needs of the marketer is to arrive at a district prioritization for purposes ranging from market entry to product/Service launch, MIMI provides Market Potential Index (MPI) for 630 districts for rural, urban and total market. The higher the MPI, the higher is the market prioritisation.

Provides a Wide array of Information and applicability: With 143 variables across rural and urban market, MIMI provides data related to Demographics, Agricultural, Financial Services, Media Ownership, Vehicle Ownership, House Hold (HH) Size and Usage, HH Basic Amenities, HH Light and Fuel, etc. to be applied across sectors ranging from Construction and FMCG to Telecom.

Simplifies decision making: To interpret the data quickly and effectively, MIMI provides a host of features like Graphs, GIS maps, Quartile and Potentiometer in downloadable format. These features are helpful for better presentation of the data and clarity of analysis. For example, if a marketer would like to target a specific region, the Quartile-based model helps him to compare various districts on selected variables, simultaneously, to arrive at a comparative picture.

User Friendly interface: With a highly interactive website and user friendly interface ,you can perform a large number of functions like execute simple arithmetic functions, customize variables, save work-space, compare districts across the states, besides others, with the help of MIMI's superlative filtered features. .

Comes with Zero IT cost: MIMI is based on a powerful cloud platform. While the industries across all the verticals have understood and appreciated the importance of Cloud Computing. MIMI ensures you get a robust and high performance platform without having to worry about software upgrades and hardware maintenance.

Composite score for selected categories of variables: To better understand the prosperity of a district and penetration of assets, composite score for selected categories of variables like agriculture, financial services, media ownership, and vehicle ownership are provided.

Santosh Desai, MD & CEO, Future Brands, said, “MIMI fills a crucial gap by putting together a comprehensive database that will provide immense value to business and research alike.”

R Narasimhan, former President  of ORG / Blackstone Market Facts and who has been associated with AC Nielsen ORG - MARG as an advisor for over 10 years, commented, “MIMI is a tool developed after extensive research and built on a host of secondary data, using advanced statistical techniques.”

MIMI can also be used by researchers, consultants, entrepreneurs, academicians and students to get a better understanding of markets and their potential across India.

Dr Vina Vani, Dr Shailesh Yagnik and Dr Rohit Trivedi are the thought leaders behind MIMI.

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