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Communication index

The presentation describes the creative approach of the newly developed Communication Index (CI), which compares the diverse communication patterns of China and India and potential marketing applications.The index measures the abilities of Chinese...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Jun Zhang, Wei-Cheng Chen, Ying Qin, Min Shen

Company: InterMedia Survey Institute

September 19, 2007

Europe's last dictatorship

As a media source striving to provide independent information to Belarusians, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) sought to understand the way young activists in this authoritarian country gather information so as to better target them.The...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Paul Tibbitts, Sarah Glacel

Company: InterMedia Survey Institute

September 19, 2007

Insight into action

This presentation explores a major issue facing many brands and organisations; the need to innovate in order to renew relevance for the target audience.There is a need for brands to constantly innovate to keep in step with cultural change and the...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Karen Paterson, Catriona Ferris, Lyn McGregor

Companies: Unilever, KANTAR TNS Malaysia, Flamingo

September 19, 2007

If 'We' not 'I'...Then what?

Excellence in any discipline must sometimes mean moving on from accepted practice and principles rather than doing the same thing again and again (albeit to increasingly high standards). This presentation describes the practical and theoretical...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Author: Mark Earls

September 19, 2007

Beyond neuroscience

In the traditional model of brand communication, the consumer's mind is a blank page on which marketers can write whatever script they want. But communication is not a one-way process: new information conflates with existing emotions and metaphors to...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Author: David Penn

Company: Conquest

September 19, 2007

Maximizing respondent engagement

This presentation outlines the results of a quantitative study using a split sample design to demonstrate increased respondent engagement and better data quality from Fusion surveys (online surveys incorporating rich media techniques) versus Flat...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Monique Morden, Jennifer Reid, Angus Reid

Company: Vision Critical

September 19, 2007

Research alchemy

This presentation examines the challenges involved in making excessive amounts of often disparate information relevant and practical to senior management.It illustrates a process for bringing together the worlds of qualitative, quantitative and...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Carl Nagle, Helen Williams, Kristin Hickey

Company: The Leading Edge

September 19, 2007

Scalpel or hand grenade?

The market research industry spends a great deal of time and effort to understand how their clients' consumers make decisions what needs their clients' products satisfy, what choices consumers make versus their clients' competitors, how communication...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Subhransu Rout, Sangeeta Gupta

September 19, 2007

Truth in measurement

This presentation reviews a number of studies that have examined visual, interactive tasks in online surveys in comparison to other verbal, and less interactive, alternatives. In many cases, while the respondents enjoyed doing these tasks, they took...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: John Bremer, Randall K. Thomas, George Terhanian, Mick P. Couper

Company: Harris Interactive (Europe)

September 19, 2007