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It's engagement, but is it research?

The research industry is constantly looking to develop more techniques and approaches to try and get closer to the truth and to generate insight. Our argument is that even when we use a great technique the truth that it is trying to communicate can...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2008: Consumer Choice

Author: Alex Johnston

Company: Jigsaw Research

November 20, 2008

Structured sense-making

As providers of 'research' we conduct inquiry into consumer behavior in order to generate new insights. However, raw data are not insights. Observations without context provide very limited utility; defining sexy new trends each year is no basis for...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2008: Consumer Choice

Author: Richard Radka

November 20, 2008

Realism in research

All surveys inherently contain a potentially deadly flaw - the act of completing a survey does not mimic the true consumer decision-making process. The use of 3D animation helps to mitigate this limitation, giving respondents a more realistic...

Catalogue: Congress 2008: Frontiers

Authors: Michael Richarme, John V. Colias

Company: Decision Analyst, Inc.

September 26, 2008

The secrets of neuromarketing

Today's marketing research is often still limited to traditional pen-and-paper methodologies or qualitative techniques that imply the risk of subjectivity and the limitation to a descriptive approach with little explicatory potential. Medical...

Catalogue: Latin America 2008

Authors: Alejandra Ruiz-Contreras, Javier Cervantes, Oscar Prospero-Garcia, Philipp Hillenbrand

May 13, 2008

Veni Vidi Vici

Our paper seeks to demonstrate the effects and effectiveness of a synergistic usage of two powerful yet passive research tools: Ethnography and Neuroscience. This means in practice that as researchers, we are frequently asked to offer methodology and...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2007

Authors: Neil McPhee, Peter Laybourne

Company: Fathom International Ltd

November 12, 2007

Quick and relevant

In the everyday life of a marketing department fast decisions must be made, even if important information is missing. To fill this lack of information it is often useful to accomplish ad-hoc studies. But the structure of market research departments...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2007

Author: Dirk Engel

November 12, 2007

Stop asking questions

The challenge for MR is to deliver the insight needed to make the right management decisions. The basic MR tool is asking questions, analysing the answers through statistics and/or interpretation and deriving meaning from this analysis; however, this...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Dave Snowden, Jochum Stienstra

September 19, 2007

Scalpel or hand grenade?

The market research industry spends a great deal of time and effort to understand how their clients' consumers make decisions what needs their clients' products satisfy, what choices consumers make versus their clients' competitors, how communication...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Subhransu Rout, Sangeeta Gupta

September 19, 2007

Consumer attitudes and behaviours

Humans are a 'neotenous' species, retaining youthful traits well into adulthood. This presentation explores the juvenile elements in adult motivation and behaviour, outlining the implications these have for consumer research and marketing. Consumer...

Catalogue: Consumer Insights 2007

Authors: Julian Kenway, Jonathan Fletcher

Company: Illuminas

May 7, 2007