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Ergonomics is the study of the relationship between man and the machines or tools he uses. The ergonomics of market research tools and their users has been a neglected subject, however. Operational researchers, it is true, have occasionally joined...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Michael Bird

June 15, 1974

Image research and the retailer

There is a tendency among market-researchers and market-research agencies, to standardise and to keep to current methods and techniques which have been found suitable in practice, with the result that a full adaptation to the problems posed does not...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: N. G. H. Krans, C. Goud

September 1, 1974

Organising market data for decision making through the development of mathematical marketing models

In this paper we concentrate on the explicit relation between models and market data. In order to formulate the subset of data to be stored in the date, bank three rather simple mathematical models are developed, namely: 1. A response model to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Marketing Management Information Systems

Author: Peter S.H. Leeflang

June 15, 1977

SIMALTO

The paper discusses a new market research data collection technique designed to become part of a combined product/market forecasting system. The market research described is particularly applicable to product planning in mature markets where repeat...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: J. L. Green

June 15, 1977

The concept of prescriber scaling of intrinsic drug factors

Intrinsic drug factors consist of all the properties of drugs that determine its clinical profile. There is usually a large amount of clinical data available at the moment of market introduction of a new drug. From these data a clinical profile can...

Catalogue: EphMRA/ESOMAR Conference 1995: Pharmaceutical Marketing Research- The Challenge For Growth

Authors: Erwin A. Douwes, Petra Draaijer

June 1, 1995

Profitability and the comprehensive view (French)

I shall not attempt to forecast the future of market research in the seventies, but I just want to bring up two particularly important aspects that both theoretical and practical research ought to tackle and get into perspective, if not solve...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1968

Author: Jean-Pierre Therme

June 15, 1968

Faster and more effective decision-making through web-based reporting

This paper provides an overview of web-based reporting across a number of dimensions, including why the web should be considered for data reporting; which research applications are most suitable for the web; and what considerations are important when...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Net Effects 2001

Author: Wally Balden

Company: Maritz Research

February 11, 2001

Hunting B2B technology innovations

Developing innovative applications for existing data sources and techniques is the hallmark of good research organizations. Researchers and strategists optimize their investment in data and methodological expertise when they effectively repurpose...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2004: Integrating Marketing Research in Business

Authors: R. Scott Evans, Anne P. Bartlett

September 19, 2004

Budget determination and the problem of long term effects

In Europe every year thousands of millions of pounds are spent on media advertising, and it is to be presumed that on balance it brings commercial advantage to the companies concerned. Consequently, the decision-making processes that lie behind that...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: The Business Of Advertising

Author: Derek Bloom

June 1, 1978