113 Industries - CRM

113 Industries - CRM

Consumer conversations hold valuable insights into the real-world experiences with Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) devices. This project leverages NLP and sentiment analysis to transform unstructured online feedback into actionable insights for product and strategy teams.


Client

113 Industries

Year

2024

Category

Healthcare + ML + Analytics

ProjecT Link

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VIsion & Problem Statement

VIsion & Problem Statement

Vision:
To empower 113 Industries with a structured analytics framework that surfaces meaningful consumer insights from online conversations, supporting data-driven client recommendations in healthcare and medical devices.

Problem Statement:
113 Industries aims to provide CGM manufacturers with deep, non-obvious consumer insights beyond traditional surveys. However, raw consumer conversations across social media and forums are noisy, fragmented, and unstructured.

Vision:
To empower 113 Industries with a structured analytics framework that surfaces meaningful consumer insights from online conversations, supporting data-driven client recommendations in healthcare and medical devices.

Problem Statement:
113 Industries aims to provide CGM manufacturers with deep, non-obvious consumer insights beyond traditional surveys. However, raw consumer conversations across social media and forums are noisy, fragmented, and unstructured.

VIsion & Problem Statement

Vision:
To empower 113 Industries with a structured analytics framework that surfaces meaningful consumer insights from online conversations, supporting data-driven client recommendations in healthcare and medical devices.

Problem Statement:
113 Industries aims to provide CGM manufacturers with deep, non-obvious consumer insights beyond traditional surveys. However, raw consumer conversations across social media and forums are noisy, fragmented, and unstructured.

Product Goal

Product Goal

Develop a scalable consumer analytics solution to enable 113 Industries to efficiently identify key consumer sentiments, pain points, and competitive differentiators across major CGM brands by extracting structured sentiment, topic themes, and competitive benchmarks to inform client product innovation and positioning strategies.

Develop a scalable consumer analytics solution to enable 113 Industries to efficiently identify key consumer sentiments, pain points, and competitive differentiators across major CGM brands by extracting structured sentiment, topic themes, and competitive benchmarks to inform client product innovation and positioning strategies.

Product Goal

Develop a scalable consumer analytics solution to enable 113 Industries to efficiently identify key consumer sentiments, pain points, and competitive differentiators across major CGM brands by extracting structured sentiment, topic themes, and competitive benchmarks to inform client product innovation and positioning strategies.

User Stories

User Stories

Title

As a/an

I want to

So that

Extract Consumer Sentiment

113 Industries Research Analyst

Analyze consumer perceptions towards CGM brands

Deliver data-backed strategic recommendations to clients

Benchmark Brand Performance

113 Industries Strategy Lead

Compare consumer sentiment across major CGM competitors

Identify brand-specific strengths and opportunities

Identify Emerging Topics

Innovation Consultant

Discover new trends and concerns in consumer conversations

Advise clients on innovation and R&D prioritization

Attribute-Based Analysis

Insights Analyst

Track sentiment across quality, cost, and ease of use attributes

Provide targeted improvement areas for client products

Visualize Strategic Insights

Client Delivery Manager

Present insights via clean, executive-ready dashboards

Help clients make faster, more confident decisions

Title

As a/an

I want to

So that

Extract Consumer Sentiment

113 Industries Research Analyst

Analyze consumer perceptions towards CGM brands

Deliver data-backed strategic recommendations to clients

Benchmark Brand Performance

113 Industries Strategy Lead

Compare consumer sentiment across major CGM competitors

Identify brand-specific strengths and opportunities

Identify Emerging Topics

Innovation Consultant

Discover new trends and concerns in consumer conversations

Advise clients on innovation and R&D prioritization

Attribute-Based Analysis

Insights Analyst

Track sentiment across quality, cost, and ease of use attributes

Provide targeted improvement areas for client products

Visualize Strategic Insights

Client Delivery Manager

Present insights via clean, executive-ready dashboards

Help clients make faster, more confident decisions

User Stories

Title

As a/an

I want to

So that

Extract Consumer Sentiment

113 Industries Research Analyst

Analyze consumer perceptions towards CGM brands

Deliver data-backed strategic recommendations to clients

Benchmark Brand Performance

113 Industries Strategy Lead

Compare consumer sentiment across major CGM competitors

Identify brand-specific strengths and opportunities

Identify Emerging Topics

Innovation Consultant

Discover new trends and concerns in consumer conversations

Advise clients on innovation and R&D prioritization

Attribute-Based Analysis

Insights Analyst

Track sentiment across quality, cost, and ease of use attributes

Provide targeted improvement areas for client products

Visualize Strategic Insights

Client Delivery Manager

Present insights via clean, executive-ready dashboards

Help clients make faster, more confident decisions

Core Features

Core Features

Feature

Description

Priority

Sentiment Analysis Dashboard

Visualizes consumer sentiment across CGM brands and product attributes

P1

Topic Modeling (LDA)

Identifies key discussion topics and emerging consumer concerns

P1

Attribute-Based Sentiment Scoring

Maps sentiment to attributes like price, usability, quality, and support

P1

Competitive Benchmarking

Benchmark sentiment scores and engagement across Dexcom, Libre, Medtronic, Sand enseonics

P1

Word Cloud Generation

Highlights common terms and trends discussed by consumers

P2

Data Cleaning & Preprocessing

Structuring noisy, unstructured text data for analysis

P2

Consumer Demographic Analysis

Segment findings by user traits where available (gender, location)

P2

Feature

Description

Priority

Sentiment Analysis Dashboard

Visualizes consumer sentiment across CGM brands and product attributes

P1

Topic Modeling (LDA)

Identifies key discussion topics and emerging consumer concerns

P1

Attribute-Based Sentiment Scoring

Maps sentiment to attributes like price, usability, quality, and support

P1

Competitive Benchmarking

Benchmark sentiment scores and engagement across Dexcom, Libre, Medtronic, Sand enseonics

P1

Word Cloud Generation

Highlights common terms and trends discussed by consumers

P2

Data Cleaning & Preprocessing

Structuring noisy, unstructured text data for analysis

P2

Consumer Demographic Analysis

Segment findings by user traits where available (gender, location)

P2

Core Features

Feature

Description

Priority

Sentiment Analysis Dashboard

Visualizes consumer sentiment across CGM brands and product attributes

P1

Topic Modeling (LDA)

Identifies key discussion topics and emerging consumer concerns

P1

Attribute-Based Sentiment Scoring

Maps sentiment to attributes like price, usability, quality, and support

P1

Competitive Benchmarking

Benchmark sentiment scores and engagement across Dexcom, Libre, Medtronic, Sand enseonics

P1

Word Cloud Generation

Highlights common terms and trends discussed by consumers

P2

Data Cleaning & Preprocessing

Structuring noisy, unstructured text data for analysis

P2

Consumer Demographic Analysis

Segment findings by user traits where available (gender, location)

P2

Success Metrics

Success Metrics

Metric

Description

Attribute Sentiment Scores

Sentiment strength and polarity are linked to product attributes

Topic Coherence Score

Coherence of automatically generated discussion topics

Brand-Specific Engagement Volume

Number of mentions/posts per brand

Sentiment Polarity Distribution

Percentage breakdown of positive, neutral, and negative mentions

Unique Product Pain Points Identified

The number of strategic issues surfaced for innovation input

Metric

Description

Attribute Sentiment Scores

Sentiment strength and polarity are linked to product attributes

Topic Coherence Score

Coherence of automatically generated discussion topics

Brand-Specific Engagement Volume

Number of mentions/posts per brand

Sentiment Polarity Distribution

Percentage breakdown of positive, neutral, and negative mentions

Unique Product Pain Points Identified

The number of strategic issues surfaced for innovation input

Success Metrics

Metric

Description

Attribute Sentiment Scores

Sentiment strength and polarity are linked to product attributes

Topic Coherence Score

Coherence of automatically generated discussion topics

Brand-Specific Engagement Volume

Number of mentions/posts per brand

Sentiment Polarity Distribution

Percentage breakdown of positive, neutral, and negative mentions

Unique Product Pain Points Identified

The number of strategic issues surfaced for innovation input

Technical Stack

Technical Stack

Models: VADER Sentiment Analysis, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for Topic Modeling

Frameworks: Python (NLTK, pandas, scikit-learn, gensim), Tableau, Seaborn, Matplotlib

Data Sources: Public social media platforms, online forums, blogs

Outputs: Attribute-based sentiment scores, topic models, brand benchmarking dashboards, executive insight reports

Models: VADER Sentiment Analysis, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for Topic Modeling

Frameworks: Python (NLTK, pandas, scikit-learn, gensim), Tableau, Seaborn, Matplotlib

Data Sources: Public social media platforms, online forums, blogs

Outputs: Attribute-based sentiment scores, topic models, brand benchmarking dashboards, executive insight reports

Technical Stack

Models: VADER Sentiment Analysis, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for Topic Modeling

Frameworks: Python (NLTK, pandas, scikit-learn, gensim), Tableau, Seaborn, Matplotlib

Data Sources: Public social media platforms, online forums, blogs

Outputs: Attribute-based sentiment scores, topic models, brand benchmarking dashboards, executive insight reports

Key Results

  • Processed over 37,000 consumer-generated posts across CGM products

  • Identified major pain points and brand differentiators by attribute and sentiment

  • Delivered brand-specific consumer insights to support 113 Industries' client advisory projects

  • Validated the feasibility of automating consumer insight generation for healthcare product categories

Constraints, Risks, and Mitigations

Constraint / Risk

Impact

Mitigation Strategy

Small volume for emerging brands

Less robust insights for smaller competitors

Adjust analytical weighting and provide context

Data Noise and Irrelevant Mentions

Reduces the precision of sentiment analysis

Advanced preprocessing and validation sampling

Sarcasm Detection in Sentiment Models

Potential misinterpretation of polarity

Future model refinement (ensemble or custom lexicons)

API/Platform Data Limitations

Restricted access to new consumer data

Expand to multi-platform data sources when feasible

Business Impact

  • Strengthens 113 Industries’ ability to provide deep, non-obvious consumer insights to healthcare clients

  • Enables faster turnaround on strategic innovation briefs and competitive analyses

  • Reduces manual research costs by automating large-scale consumer conversation analysis

  • Enhances client perception of 113 Industries as a data-driven, innovation-first consulting partner

  • Provides a scalable framework for expanding similar projects across adjacent healthcare markets

Future Roadmap

Short-Term

  • Expand to include multi-language consumer feedback (Spanish, French)

  • Increase the granularity of attribute-based sentiment scoring

Mid-Term

  • Predict consumer sentiment trends to anticipate product reputation risks

  • Integrate additional social platforms for richer consumer insights

Long-Term

  • Build proprietary consumer sentiment libraries by device category

  • Offer continuous monitoring dashboards to clients as a subscription service

Key Results

  • Processed over 37,000 consumer-generated posts across CGM products

  • Identified major pain points and brand differentiators by attribute and sentiment

  • Delivered brand-specific consumer insights to support 113 Industries' client advisory projects

  • Validated the feasibility of automating consumer insight generation for healthcare product categories

Constraints, Risks, and Mitigations

Constraint / Risk

Impact

Mitigation Strategy

Small volume for emerging brands

Less robust insights for smaller competitors

Adjust analytical weighting and provide context

Data Noise and Irrelevant Mentions

Reduces the precision of sentiment analysis

Advanced preprocessing and validation sampling

Sarcasm Detection in Sentiment Models

Potential misinterpretation of polarity

Future model refinement (ensemble or custom lexicons)

API/Platform Data Limitations

Restricted access to new consumer data

Expand to multi-platform data sources when feasible

Business Impact

  • Strengthens 113 Industries’ ability to provide deep, non-obvious consumer insights to healthcare clients

  • Enables faster turnaround on strategic innovation briefs and competitive analyses

  • Reduces manual research costs by automating large-scale consumer conversation analysis

  • Enhances client perception of 113 Industries as a data-driven, innovation-first consulting partner

  • Provides a scalable framework for expanding similar projects across adjacent healthcare markets

Future Roadmap

Short-Term

  • Expand to include multi-language consumer feedback (Spanish, French)

  • Increase the granularity of attribute-based sentiment scoring

Mid-Term

  • Predict consumer sentiment trends to anticipate product reputation risks

  • Integrate additional social platforms for richer consumer insights

Long-Term

  • Build proprietary consumer sentiment libraries by device category

  • Offer continuous monitoring dashboards to clients as a subscription service

Key Results

  • Processed over 37,000 consumer-generated posts across CGM products

  • Identified major pain points and brand differentiators by attribute and sentiment

  • Delivered brand-specific consumer insights to support 113 Industries' client advisory projects

  • Validated the feasibility of automating consumer insight generation for healthcare product categories

Constraints, Risks, and Mitigations

Constraint / Risk

Impact

Mitigation Strategy

Small volume for emerging brands

Less robust insights for smaller competitors

Adjust analytical weighting and provide context

Data Noise and Irrelevant Mentions

Reduces the precision of sentiment analysis

Advanced preprocessing and validation sampling

Sarcasm Detection in Sentiment Models

Potential misinterpretation of polarity

Future model refinement (ensemble or custom lexicons)

API/Platform Data Limitations

Restricted access to new consumer data

Expand to multi-platform data sources when feasible

Business Impact

  • Strengthens 113 Industries’ ability to provide deep, non-obvious consumer insights to healthcare clients

  • Enables faster turnaround on strategic innovation briefs and competitive analyses

  • Reduces manual research costs by automating large-scale consumer conversation analysis

  • Enhances client perception of 113 Industries as a data-driven, innovation-first consulting partner

  • Provides a scalable framework for expanding similar projects across adjacent healthcare markets

Future Roadmap

Short-Term

  • Expand to include multi-language consumer feedback (Spanish, French)

  • Increase the granularity of attribute-based sentiment scoring

Mid-Term

  • Predict consumer sentiment trends to anticipate product reputation risks

  • Integrate additional social platforms for richer consumer insights

Long-Term

  • Build proprietary consumer sentiment libraries by device category

  • Offer continuous monitoring dashboards to clients as a subscription service