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Improving market researcher's contribution to business decision making

This paper in the form of a ten-step guide is aimed at helping improve the quality of information-based business decision making. The paper encourages information suppliers to think more closely about ways in which they can help their decision making...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Global Healthcare 2001: Changes In Competitive Dynamics

Author: David Smith

Company: DVL Smith Ltd

April 1, 2001

Competitive intelligence on the Net

This paper examines the ways in which firms use the internet and its contents to conduct competitive intelligence. Due to the increased access to competitive data and the elimination of geographic boundaries, the internet raises new concerns about...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Net Effects 2001

Authors: Sylvia Long-Tolbert, Patrick E. Murphy

February 11, 2001

Redefining ethics in market research

This paper describes issues raised in a recent review of the Market Research Society of New Zealand's Code of Practice (based on the ESOMAR Code) with respect to its appropriateness for qualitative research. Qualitative researchers and social...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2000: Redefining Business In Asia Pacific

Author: Ann Holway

November 1, 2000

We have wired the world, but unplugged our brains

This paper looks at the human side of the arrival of new information technology. The authors argue that the market research industry should now explain to the outside world how it is making sense of 21st century marketing information. We believe this...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2000: The Impact Of Networking

Authors: David Smith, Andy Dexter, Jonathan Fletcher

Company: DVL Smith Ltd

September 1, 2000

How are new interactive relationships with customers changing the face of marketing

This paper examines the growing need for electronic data security measures to be put in place in market research organisations. It uses research available in the United Kingdom on private companies and how they handle data security to illustrate that...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2000: The Impact Of Networking

Authors: Rana Tassabehji, Marian Sudbury

September 1, 2000

Conducting marketing and opinion research using the Internet

ESOMAR has issued this Guideline to protect the interests both of Internet respondents and of the users of Internet research findings. Because information technology and the Internet are evolving and changing so rapidly it is not practicable to...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.10: Marketing Research in a .com Environment

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

June 15, 2000

To fuse or not to fuse?

The aim of the paper is to provide guidelines for the non-technical media practitioner. It will argue that while the principles of fusion are sound they do not provide a catchall solution and caution should be exerted in using it as a general media...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol. 7: Better Research For Better Media Decisions

Authors: Richard Dodson, Sheila Byfield

August 1, 1999

Research on the Internet

This chapter reviews the research environment of today and makes recommendations for the majority, in Internet language the ‘newbies'. If you are amongst the 1% of hard core enthusiasts (the digerati), this chapter will not seem very new....

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Authors: Karlan Witt, Ray Poynter

September 1, 1998

Communication of research results

The challenge of results presentation: achieve speed and clarity, without stripping out any important substance from the findings. The answer is conciseness, i.e. being short yet complete. Also important, is modesty, to present the results and the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: Yves Marbeau

September 1, 1998