Resources Library by ANA

East meets West

Westerners often wonder: what is typically Asian? With a multitude of business and cultural experiences to be made in Asia, it is hard to get an overview of aspects that 'typically' influence market research. With their paper Patricia Blau and...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2009: Competing On A World Stage

Authors: Susanne Wieners-Schlupkothen, Patricia Blau

April 7, 2009

Purchase behaviour for new product evaluations

This study will clarify consumer segmentation in speed of acceptance of new products and the possibilities for defining early adopters within FMCG category purchasers, based on actual sales data. The consumer segmentation could be a new product...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2009: Competing On A World Stage

Author: Maiko Kawaguchi

Company: INTAGE HOLDINGS Inc.

April 7, 2009

Excitement drives successful innovation in Asian markets!

The road to innovation is littered with failures. In reality, picking obvious winners isn't hard. Unfortunately, throwing away more genuinely innovative ideas is easy too! Research, in its drive to minimise risk, often fails to spot ideas which could...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2009: Competing On A World Stage

Authors: Luc Rens, Gilbert K.W. Lee, Jeremy Lau, Rosalynn Tang

April 7, 2009

Lipstick on a pig

This paper will argue that Qualitative research and Japan don't mix. That what goes by the name of qualitative research in Japan is, in many cases, something very different; a beast that has - in evolving to fit Japanese cultural assumptions,...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2009: Competing On A World Stage

Author: James Parsons

Company: Flamingo

April 7, 2009

The evolving role of in-house market research professionals

This paper intends to examine the role of today's in-house market research professionals within business organizations. Specifically, it will focus on:-how the in-house researchers' role have evolved in the past decade, -what are their...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2009: Competing On A World Stage

Authors: Andy Kung, Grace Tse

April 7, 2009

The global consumers' view on corporate responsibility

Globally, Corporate Responsibility is an area of growing importance: socially, economically and politically. Yet consumers are ill-informed about the activities of companies they purchase from every day. In an effort to understand how mainstream...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2009: Competing On A World Stage

Authors: Lutfee Huang, Nicola Lindsey

Company: WisdomAsia Marketing and Research Consulting

April 7, 2009

Building youth brands in a youthful country

India today is a youthful country and all brands are trying to be young. In a context where 24 -45 years old are being targeted as youth, building brands for the real youth (15-24 years) needs a new framework. It needs research that can experience...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2009: Competing On A World Stage

Author: Dheeraj Sinha

Company: Bates CHI & Partners

April 7, 2009

From dream to purchase

The advancement of the digital experience has opened up new and exciting worlds for consumers in ways that were only imagined ten years ago.The adoption curve of consumers of new digital products is accelerating, resulting in a changed shopping...

Catalogue: Retail and Shopper 2009: The Voice Of The Shopper

Author: Yvonne van Veen

Company: Philips International

March 4, 2009

If the consumer is not a moron, could the shopper be?

This paper showcases a research framework that integrates insights on shopper observation, shopping environment, retailer servicing issues with shopper interviews to create a powerful tool that can help us understand the shopper better. The...

Catalogue: Retail and Shopper 2009: The Voice Of The Shopper

Authors: Sum Yim Ling, Anand Singh, Pavi Gupta

Companies: Nielsen, The Coca-Cola Company

March 4, 2009