Resources Library by ANA

How to be a future shock absorber

This paper highlights the way a more strategic approach to marketing intelligence can dramatically improve ability to predict the future. The professional marketing intelligence team (both the client and agency side) need to apply critical market and...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: John Marinopoulos, David Smith

September 17, 2006

Renewing the original bonds

Market research has its roots in psychological theory and method, but there is a growing gap between psychological understanding and market research practice.Marketers today often rely on implicit or naïve explanations rather than formal theories...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Author: David G. Bakken

September 17, 2006

Right here... right now...

This paper describes a framework for the use of mobile research, supported by case studies conducted in Japan for a global manufacturer of sporting goods. The approach illustrates how mobile phones provide marketers not only with a powerful survey...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Andrew Till, Steve Mele, Flavio Souza

September 17, 2006

Stock market activity

This paper shows how methods traditionally used by market researchers have potential application to understand and predict stated future shareholder behavior in the stock market. The market researcher makes two distinct contributions to this new...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Howard R. Moskowitz, Alex Gofman, Samuel Rabino, Don Lowry

Company: Moskowitz Jacobs Inc.

September 17, 2006

Electronic word-of-mouth

The Internet enables customers to obtain electronic Word-of-Mouth from other customers.This paper illustrates a qualitative research project to identify customer motives for reading other customers' online articulations from online consumer opinion...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Jamie Burton, Marwan Khammash, Katherine Allan

September 17, 2006

Patent watching

This paper proposes the Systematic Innovation Methodology as an option to conventional consumer research and understanding methods.Not only does this methodology help translate insights into successful prototypes, but it is also a self-standing...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Author: Alexei Bogdanov

September 17, 2006

Breaking down barriers

The research industry is still wedded to the old paradigms of research. These evolved to meet the needs of different business functions and reflect the business thinking that was dominant at the times they emerged. Business thinking has moved on but...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Author: Peter Hutton

September 17, 2006

Brand engagement

This paper shows how research techniques were applied in an online environment to elicit deeper learning about brand and media engagement among teenagers. The paper focuses specifically on teens in China, Brazil, Mexico, and Russia and demonstrates...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Author: Leyla Namiranian

Company: Decision Analyst, Inc.

September 17, 2006

Deep-dive research

The paper highlights the original methods of Deep Dive Research developed by BISAM (Center of sociological and marketing research) for the Coca-Cola Company in Kazakhstan. The research - based on a complex implementation of qualitative methods as...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Karlygash Rakhimova, Leonid Gurevich

Companies: BISAM Central Asia, The Coca-Cola Company

September 17, 2006