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Launching innovations during economic slowdown

As innovation is the engine of growth, it is important to continuously invest. But during challenging economic times, we face difficult decisions as manufacturers: Should we continue to invest in innovation or save money? Should we cut production...

Catalogue: Congress 2009: Leading The Way

Authors: Marcin Penconek, Mark Gillespie

Company: Nielsen

September 21, 2009

Single source multimedia audience measurement

The Cross Media revolutionary Eurisko Media Monitor survey starts its third edition with further innovative solutions. This release also adopts the Dialogatore: a brand new device that GfK Eurisko has recently introduced in the Italian market. It...

Catalogue: WM3 2009: Change Is In The Air...

Author: Giorgio Licastro

Company: GfK

May 7, 2009

From bricolage to pho

We must continue to adapt new models as market research plays a greater role across the production and marketing chain from innovation and new product development to packaging and point of sale. Like a great chef drawing on theory, practice,...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2009: Competing On A World Stage

Authors: Alison Dexter, Bach Ngoc Hieu An

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

April 7, 2009

Acting global and thinking local

The management principle `think global, act local' is a valuable guideline to be implemented in international research projects. To transform it into action, the balancing act between global and local needs has to be challenged. This is the art and...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2009: Competing On A World Stage

Authors: Pei Jiu, Frank Landeck

Companies: GfK, CMI

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

Painting simplicity

Almost nobody doubts of the importance of innovation for retail success. it is also evident that the shopping experience plays a key role in stimulating customers not only to purchase once, but also to return. The challenge is to decide which road is...

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

Authors: Paulina Salazar, Lluis Martinez-Ribes

March 4, 2009

Do we need pragmatic polymaths to boost the qualitative research industry?

The qualitative research environment is rapidly changing. With a focus on foresight and innovation, marketers are realizing the importance of qualitative research and demanding more creative and actionable insights. Further, a wider range of...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2008: Consumer Choice

Author: Vivek Banerji

Company: McKinsey & Company

November 20, 2008

Fuelling Philips' innovation engine

Philips has a long-established history of introducing innovative products in the consumer electronics space: from the cassette tape to the compact disc, which it co-introduced with Sony. Sustaining innovation on this scale is challenging, and...

Catalogue: Congress 2008: Frontiers

Authors: Andrew Lynch, Ria Dierikx

Companies: Philips International, Communispace Corporation

September 26, 2008

Learning to win

Once again, we argue that the failures [of innovation] are really not random at all: They are predictable and avoidable: if managers get the categorization stage of theory right. Of the many dimensions of business building, the challenge of creating...

Catalogue: Congress 2008: Frontiers

Authors: Howard R. Moskowitz, Johannes Hartmann

Companies: Unilever, Moskowitz Jacobs Inc.

September 26, 2008