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Transforming leisure with ethnography

To offer satisfying experiences, the leisure industry must understand how consumers have adopted a complex, multifaceted and integrated approach to leisure. Profound cultural and values shifts have lead consumers to build uplifting and transformative...

Catalogue: Leisure 2006

Authors: Caroline Gibbons-Barry, Karen Hofman, Scott Moshier

October 8, 2006

Ethnographic research and great storytelling

Due to the concentration process and increasing competition in saturated markets, automotive manufacturers are faced with the continuous challenge of developing innovative, consumer-compatible products. To better anticipate different consumer needs...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2006

Authors: Bettina Staudenmaier, Ulrich van Hormann, Laurent Favard

Company: GfK

October 8, 2006

Pop art project

Several market research studies concluded that in Latin America, design/form represents a strong competitive differential in the cell phone market. In Latin America, design works as a strong compelling element to cell phone consumers.However, the...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2006

Authors: Andréa Lima, Paula Luz, Richard Nelson

October 8, 2006

Truly, madly, deeply

This paper examines how an ethnography study in two countries (USA and UK) helped a top 10 global pharmaceutical company radically revise how it thought about a medical condition and how clinical trials could be conducted differently by better...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Neil McPhee, Graeme Chrystal

Company: Zaicom Research Plus Limited

September 17, 2006

The dig

It is archaeology's use of stuff in studying, understanding and building pictures of cultures that first attracted us. Archaeology provides a practical approach to 're-instating the missing masses' (Latour 1992) in market research.How market research...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Simon Blyth, Simon Roberts

Company: Unilever

September 17, 2006

An ethnographic approach to consumer receptivity

This paper is based upon the findings of a qualitative research inquiring into processes of media receptivity in the face of consumers' increasingly unpredictable media usage patterns.A decisive aspect of this problem is the question of receptivity....

Catalogue: Worldwide Multi Media Measurement 2006

Authors: Sigrid Schmid, René Kaufmann

June 4, 2006

How ethnic media is researched in the UK

UK media and marketers have been slow to react the growing ethnic population in the UK. No representative measurement exists on any media currency and few advertisers address this audience and ethnic media exclusively.Whilst large scale qualitative...

Catalogue: Global Diversity 2006

Author: Denh Dip

May 8, 2006

Unravelling the diversity of the Indian market

India is, unequivocally, a diverse country. This paper takes a geographic zonal approach to unravel India's diversity because it serves as the most actionable way of studying the market, since most marketing action (i.e. media or distribution) can be...

Catalogue: Global Diversity 2006

Author: Sangeeta Gupta

Company: Nielsen

May 8, 2006

Building an Islamic brand

This paper explores the creation of a brand for Muslim audiences in the United Kingdom and globally. It illustrates some of the unique and unusual challenges that this task creates by using two case studies: Islamic Bank of Britain and Mecca Cola.The...

Catalogue: Global Diversity 2006

Authors: Alun Williams, Anjul Sharma

Company: Ipsos MRBI

May 8, 2006