Resources Library by ANA

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

Once gotten, not forgotten

Lidia Oie, responsible for the Qualitative Studies Area at one of the biggest marketing research enterprises in Latin America, will describe the uses and achievements of deprivation studies. This technique allows to identify the value that a product...

Catalogue: Latin America 2008

Author: Lidia Oie Jiques

Company: Ipsos MRBI

May 13, 2008

Evolution of beauty: Dove case study

In traditional campaign post-testings only the impact of direct exposure (people actually having seen the creative) is measured. By doing so, all dynamics behind the buzz in terms of word-of-mouth and word of mouse and how this influences consumer...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Niels Schillewaert, Steven van Belleghem, Severine Distave, Tom De Ruyck

Companies: InSites Consulting, Unilever

September 19, 2007

Racing past the barriers

With the help of path breaking innovative research, TVS, a leading two-wheeler company in India, moved beyond the conventional path of functional, technical and design superiority to build a deeper connection with the consumer through the brand. Set...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Poonam V. Kumar, Prasad Narsimhan

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 19, 2007

Nokia colors

This paper analyzes the main results of the online Product-Test eCMetrics carried out during the first quarter of 2006 to define the colors of Nokia's mobile line. The quantitative research study was performed in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,...

Catalogue: Latin America 2006

Authors: Ivan Casas, Gonzalo Peña, Jose Sosa

October 8, 2006

A fresh approach to concept testing

With large companies committed to organic growth, innovation is once again central to their mission and the need for concept screening and testing greater than ever.These companies face huge budget pressures while maintaining the 'consumer's voice'...

Catalogue: Congress 2005: Making A Difference

Author: John Kearon

Company: BrainJuicer

September 21, 2005

Transforming American Express

This presentation examines the role of qualitative research in the transformation of American Express' US Small Business Services division, an issuer of credit cards, into OPEN: The Small Business Network from American Express, a network of financial...

Catalogue: Congress 2005: Making A Difference

Authors: Jeremy Diamond, Amy Markus

Company: American Express Company

September 21, 2005

A theoretical and empirical study of product placement quality

Based on expert, domain knowledge and experience, academic advice and guidance, as well as an extensive meta-analysis of existing advertising, awareness, involvement, and perception studies, iTVX, in collaboration with OTX Research of California...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2005: Radio

Authors: Raymond C. Petit, Frank Zazza

June 21, 2005

Direct olfactometry and gas ography as a tool for the dynamic semantic characterisation of fragrances?

This paper presents a new method for fragrance evaluation: Direct Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry.All tests were performed with a set of six fragrances representing the sweet and 'gourmand' trend emerging during the 1990s. A preliminary study...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Fragrance Research Conference 2005

Authors: Barbara Rega, Jean-Marc Sieffermann, Julien Delarue, Pierre Giampaoli

May 15, 2005