We want to quantify and categorize people, we try to create algorithms to predict unpredictable human lives and shove people into focus groups with two way mirrors, feed them crap snacks and hope to understand how they live their lives and how our brands can play a meaningful role in their lives. The root of evil comes from innovating against the business goal to fill business budget gaps versus innovating against human desire and needs.I will share concrete examples of how Bacardi has "saved humans" from the Consumer Matrix through brave and human-centric research approaches.
We want to quantify and categorize people, we try to create algorithms to predict unpredictable human lives and shove people into focus groups with two way mirrors, feed them crap snacks and hope to understand how they live their lives and how our brands can play a meaningful role in their lives. The root of evil comes from innovating against the business goal to fill business budget gaps versus innovating against human desire and needs.
Q&A Session, Forget me not - Traditional & new methods to answer modern questions.
F*ck Focus Groups: The case for human first fearless research.3 takeaways:- It's easy to default and focus on what matters to the business. It's braver - and smarter - to put humans at the heart of everything we do. Let's begin with our humans and their story - and why we must start with our humans.- Our connection with humanity is broken. We want to quantify and categorise people, we try to create algorithms to predict unpredictable human lives which are cozier, messier, real and quite imperfect. Do traditional qualitative methods work in helping us understand people or should we evolve?- It's scary but brave and maybe even a little provocative and uncomfortable, but are there new ways to reconnect with humanity through fearless human-centric research?