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From Big Data to big decisions

In a world of Big Data and an ever-widening variety of data types, technological tools and infrastructure, while not glamorous, are mission-critical to insights creation and building a data-driven business culture. Microsoft's Market Research team...

Catalogue: Big Data World 2016: Understanding People Through Smart Data

Authors: Reed Cundiff, Ilana Saarikko

Company: Microsoft

November 18, 2016

Sound research

"How can we increase brand consideration and purchase intention." This is a fundamental question that any consumer brand faces. This is exactly what SONOS, the pioneer of the wireless home audio market, wanted to explore further. The first step was...

Catalogue: Congress 2016: #WOW

Authors: David Feick, Frank Buckler

September 22, 2016

Stay AGILE or?

Agile methodology is based on iterative and incremental development. The requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between teams that are self-organising and cross-functional, involving all stakeholders. The agile market research...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2016: Get Connected!

Author: Pravin Shekar

May 19, 2016

A blueprint for helping customer insight professionals drive business growth

This presentation provides a blueprint for the mindset needed by customer insight professionals faced with the challenge of understanding how global influences and local needs combine to shape customer preferences that will drive business growth....

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2012: Asia Kaleidoscope

Authors: Maryan Broadbent, Adam Riley

Company: DVL Smith Ltd

April 17, 2012

'Don't play with food!'

Research is often described as the enemy of innovation. In fact, we ask a lot of participants when requesting they predict future consumption patterns in a focus group. Innovation is about breaking away from patterns. Lateral thinking and stepping...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2011: Embrace, Inspire And Celebrate!

Authors: Doerte Toellner, Helen King

Companies: Point-Blank International GmbH, Bord Bia- Irish Food Board

November 13, 2011

Re-defining marketing measurement

The paper describes how superior modelling processes have developed in order to keep pace with, understand and measure the plethora of consumer touchpoints now used by marketers both online and offline. Further, it looks at the entire customer...

Catalogue: Congress 2011: Impact

Author: Hilary Perkins

September 18, 2011

From brilliant to actionable

This paper will describe the collaboration between Hershey's and In4mation Insights to revolutionize how marketing ROI is modeled and how its results are spread throughout an organization. The development of new-to-the-world Bayesian statistical...

Catalogue: Congress 2011: Impact

Authors: Mark Garratt, Rafael Alcaraz, Steve Cohen

Company: In4mation insights

September 18, 2011

The vitality of qualitative research in the era of blogs and tweeting

The research landscape has never been richer in techniques and technology, nor has there been such a bewildering choice of methods in the history of Consumer Research. For most of the past 50 years or so, the debate about alternative methods has...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2010: Foresight on Moods and Thoughts

Authors: Alan Branthwaite, Simon Patterson

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

November 18, 2010

Horses for courses - RPD or PeopleMeter?

This paper revisits predictions made in one of the very first papers about Return Path Data delivered in 2005 at WAM . Incorporating findings from a qualitative survey of clients conducted exclusively for this paper, the presenters examine how the...

Catalogue: WM3 2010: Your Audience = Media Consumer + Generator

Authors: George Shababb, Richard Marks

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

October 21, 2010