Resources Library by ANA

Exploring markets with agent-based computer simulations

Do we always need to interview human beings in the flesh or can we get reliable information by observing thousands of I-individuals who are pre-programmed to follow the same utility function as their human counterparts? Where is the frontier? ...

Catalogue: Congress 2008: Frontiers

Authors: David Perroud, Roger A. Parker

September 26, 2008

Digital divorce or digital love affair

The use of Information and Communication Technology (henceforth ICT) products and services varies to a considerable degree. There are users who devour any innovation and would prefer beta versions to challenge both themselves and technology. Other...

Catalogue: Congress 2008: Frontiers

Authors: Oliver Tabino, Stefanie Gutknecht, Tim Dörflinger, Kerstin Klar

Company: Deutsche Telekom

September 26, 2008

Fuelling Philips' innovation engine

Philips has a long-established history of introducing innovative products in the consumer electronics space: from the cassette tape to the compact disc, which it co-introduced with Sony. Sustaining innovation on this scale is challenging, and...

Catalogue: Congress 2008: Frontiers

Authors: Andrew Lynch, Ria Dierikx

Companies: Philips International, Communispace Corporation

September 26, 2008

Social graph theories

Has the monopoly of traditional population segmentation criteria and sampling methods come to an end? Can demographics (employment, age, sex, ethnicity, etc) or behavioural (consumption and cultural habits) criteria be replaced by new "community...

Catalogue: Congress 2008: Frontiers

Authors: Anthony Hamelle, Guilhem Fouetillou

Company: Linkfluence

September 26, 2008

Storytelling with international millionaires

This paper is the story of how UBS, their global advertising agency Publicis and Spring looked at the rarefied world of High Net Worth Individuals, using innovative storytelling research to understand the key relationship dynamics that drove them....

Catalogue: Congress 2008: Frontiers

Authors: Sarah Hamburger, Patricia Lawry

September 26, 2008

Loser, hero or human being

A research without questions asked? The consumer in lead of moderation and analysis? Results in the form of consumer generated cartoons of archetypes and 200 consumer generated stories? Our presentation is exactly about this: a narrative project that...

Catalogue: Congress 2008: Frontiers

Authors: Wim van der Noort, Jochum Stienstra

Company: Ferro Explore!

September 26, 2008

Anticipating tomorrow's societal change today

We realize that after years of benefiting from emerging markets and cheap products through cheap foreign labor, most Western countries such as Germany, France, the United States and Great Britain are now facing the negative effects of globalization:...

Catalogue: Congress 2008: Frontiers

Authors: Christian Wenger, Kerstin Ullrich

September 26, 2008

Is the world really flat?

This paper looks at the general status and role of women in the society in countries that are culturally very different from each other and then examines the notions of love and romance among them. It explores in details to see if the forces of...

Catalogue: Congress 2008: Frontiers

Authors: Manish Makhijani, Sakkina Pittalwala

Companies: Flamingo, Unilever

September 26, 2008

Reaching through the crystal ball

What will society look like in 2015 and what can a product and service provider do now to prepare for such an unknown place?  These are the twin challenges that this paper seeks to address. Developing scenarios and futures processes (looking...

Catalogue: Congress 2008: Frontiers

Authors: David Palmer, Paul Stamper

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 26, 2008