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Organizational problems in implementing information systems

Strategic management deals with the development of the basic ideas of the organization in order to stabilize and extend the contribution-inducement-balance of the interest groups. In this context we are only dealing with consumer benefits and the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Marketing Management Information Systems

Author: Erik Johnsen

June 15, 1977

Management information systems and marketing management information systems

In this paper we deal with the problem of designing a management information system (MIS) and one of its subsystems, a marketing management information system (MMIS). We want to show that a discussion about design principles of a MMIS is not feasible...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Marketing Management Information Systems

Author: A. Bosman

June 15, 1977

The dangerous quest for certainty in market forecasting

This paper shows how a large pharmaceutical firm developed a series of market forecasts in probabilistic terms, explicitly incorporating the principal uncertainties affecting the future sales of new pharmaceutical products. Such probabilistic...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Foresight Or Hindsight?

Authors: Michael M. Menke, Jacques P. Pezier

March 1, 1977

Fiesta

This paper describes a comprehensive, Europe-wide program of marketing research carried out over a period of four years to assist development of an entirely new Ford small car: Fiesta. The research program, which was an integral part of the car's...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Authors: R. P. Smith, C. A. Molloy

September 1, 1976

Relating research techniques to marketing problems

The authors describe the development, over a period of four years, of a research programme for a new container designed to offer an alternative to glass bottles and metal cans for beer and carbonated soft drinks. The new container is the ICI...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Authors: Donald Osborne, A. J. Payne

June 15, 1976

The market research society diploma scheme

The Market Research Society has regarded education as one of its major responsibilities ever since it was founded, and each year a major program of activities is organised which range from basic introductory courses in market research generally...

Catalogue: Workshop 1976: Educating The Effective Marketing Decision Makers

Author: John Davis

June 1, 1976

Managing executive development programs

The objective of this paper is to specify, collect and classify the steps to be followed in designing, implementing and evaluating an Executive Development Program. The authors view the subject from a distinctly pragmatic viewpoint which is based on...

Catalogue: Workshop 1976: Educating The Effective Marketing Decision Makers

Authors: Fred Wechsler, Sergio Barraza Picone

June 1, 1976

Recent experiences in Belgian marketing education

The following papers describe two experiences in the field of marketing education. Both programs were initiated by the Center for Productivity and Research from the University of Ghent. The first paper comments the program in which public officers...

Catalogue: Workshop 1976: Educating The Effective Marketing Decision Makers

Authors: Jacques De Rijcke, R. Duyck

June 1, 1976

Marketing research training in a multinational corporation

The paper starts with a description of the developments leading to an increasing spread of staff functions in the multi- national corporations and hence of marketing research and consultancy services. The Philips training activities in marketing...

Catalogue: Workshop 1976: Educating The Effective Marketing Decision Makers

Author: Peter L. F. de Jong

Company: Philips International

June 1, 1976