Resources Library by ANA

The 65+ consumer

On December 8, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. This legislation provided new prescription drug benefits for 36 million Americans aged 65 years and older and 6 million...

Catalogue: Global Healthcare 2008: Consumer Choice

Author: Lance Collie

Company: Procter & Gamble

February 6, 2008

Research World (February 2008)

This month Research World is focusing on talent development, which pleases me enormously as it is a particular hobby horse of mine. Yet, I am also acutely aware that it is one of those subjects to which it is incredibly difficult to do proper...

Catalogue: Research World 2008

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

February 1, 2008

Let the product talk

at LVMH, Product insight has successfully contributed to several types of problematics. two will now being explained: the launch of a new fragrance (Pucci for women) where the brief is to try and understand which juice should be chosen to meet best...

Catalogue: Fragrance 2007

Authors: Evelyne Rédier, Sandrine McClure

Company: Reperes

November 14, 2007

Why do some online communities work

Online research communities have been generating quite a lot of buzz recently. At the American Marketing Association's market research conference in September 2007, this was one of the primary themes, discussed by companies like General Motors who...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2007

Authors: Marco Vriens, Lee Eyre, Jamie Hamilton, Misia Tramp, Lisa Galarneau

Company: Microsoft

November 12, 2007

Serpents with tails in their mouths

Picture the Garden of Eden and the Tree of Knowledge. Around this tree stand so many Eves qualitative researchers who revere, create and deliver knowledge. They look upon the apples that represent knowledge with a hunger to consume and appropriate...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2007

Authors: Anjul Sharma, Gareth Pugh

Company: Ipsos MRBI

November 12, 2007

Doot doot. From BPM to SPM

What do people and bees have in common? From BpM Beats per minute to SpM Signs and Symbols per Minute will show how there has been a significant change in the way people cope with feelings. And through this a fundamental shift in the roles they play...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2007

Authors: Michael Wittenberg, Hans-Bert Matoul

Company: Happy Thinking People

November 12, 2007

Veni Vidi Vici

Our paper seeks to demonstrate the effects and effectiveness of a synergistic usage of two powerful yet passive research tools: Ethnography and Neuroscience. This means in practice that as researchers, we are frequently asked to offer methodology and...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2007

Authors: Neil McPhee, Peter Laybourne

Company: Fathom International Ltd

November 12, 2007

Research World (November 2007)

The demarcation between what is currently regarded as qualitative or quantitative research has been blurring for some time now. So-called ‘non-traditional’ methods of research are on the rise. Two apparently opposing undercurrents dominate...

Catalogue: Research World 2007

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

November 1, 2007

Moving offline to online

The paper outlines how the establishment of a new, online audience appreciation panel for ITV has changed the nature of the research process throughout the organisation.Whilst originally envisaged to be a faster offline panel, the sheer variety of...

Catalogue: Panel Research 2007

Authors: Simon Scholes, Christine Connor

Company: GfK

October 28, 2007