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How design thinking allows market research to take the lead and become an innovation powerhouse

The R&D sector is worth $1.7tn. Insight should be central to this. But currently, it's not. At best, we're a small component in the larger innovation machine. And often, we're completely ignored. This shouldn't be the case.Learn how combining...

Catalogue: Insights Festival 2020

Authors: Nicholas JianHao Lee, Alex Wilman

Companies: Northstar Research, FigureFigure Studios

September 15, 2020

The art and science of innovation

This presentation approaches innovation as being the successful conversation between two worlds: The science and precision of the R&D world meeting the art and pragmatic world of market research in order to create the maximum marketing impact in...

Catalogue: Sensory Forum 2015: Marketing Meets Science

Authors: Sjoerd Koornstra, Codruta Berbecaru

June 15, 2015

Innovation detonation @ Deutsche Telekom

The work of the Creation Center, a small, creative, international and interdisciplinary unit that applies 'innovathinking' consistently in the R&D process of Deutsche Telekom, is introduced in this presentation. As in other competitive markets, a...

Catalogue: Innovate 2010: Innovation Detonation

Authors: Raimund Schmolze, Annette Boehmer

Company: Deutsche Telekom

November 16, 2010

Building innovation

It may come as no surprise that research is seldom praised for its ability to nurture innovative ideas. We've interviewed some international and UK-based clients and creative agencies about their experiences of research in idea development, and...

Catalogue: Innovate 2008

Author: Lucy Blakemore

Company: Gravity Planning & Research Ltd

June 16, 2008

Developing an optimal product line using consumer preferences and cost data

Much of the activity of market researchers focuses on understanding the effect of new products on the firm. By researching product acceptance before introduction, manufacturers recognize that careful attention to consumer wants and needs will...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2003: Management, Accountability and Research

Authors: Susan Stoev, Steve Cohen

September 14, 2003

Analytics count

Companies today are acutely aware of the tremendous benefits associated with understanding customers. Many have embraced customer relationship management (CRM) to achieve this understanding. Thus, companies have invested in customer-facing software...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Customer Relationship Management Conference 2002

Authors: Arthur O'Connor, Annie Pettit

March 17, 2002

Brand stretching

The subject of brand extensions is looked at and, in particular, the idea of 'brand stretching', in order to answer the question, "How far can a mother brand stretch, by extending itself within and across brand categories and sub-categories?" The...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1996: Changing Business Dynamics

Authors: Yaman Akalin, Peter Sampson

Company: Burke, Inc.

September 1, 1996

Company market research departments

At this time of recession, it is more common to hear of reductions than of expansion in company research departments. It seemed an appropriate time to conduct a quantitative study among major European companies to discover whether this is a general...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1994: Success Through Adaptation

Author: Margaret Holmes

September 1, 1994

Stealing brand equity' measuring perceptual confusion between national brands and copycat own-label products

In all countries, distributors' brands have been facing the same problem : how to change consumers' perceptions, without advertising, from inferior imitations of national brands to quality alternatives. To do so the packaging is the main media : one...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: Building Successful Brands

Author: Jean-Nöel Kapferer

June 15, 1994