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Forecasting the sales impact of new product improvement

This paper summaries the authors' experience in estimating the sales impact of product quality improvements, made to new products. The paper describes the manner in which a particular forecasting technique takes account of product evaluation in its...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Micro And Macro Market Modelling

Authors: Lynn Y.S. Lin, Stephen Factor

Company: Burke, Inc.

October 26, 1987

The public as a prophet findings from continuous survey research and their importance for early diagnosis of economic growth

Ever longer time-series trends in survey research are increasingly opening up opportunities to determine covariance and formulate hypotheses about causality through analysis of the connections with other data from company statistics, from media...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1987

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

September 1, 1987

The public as a prophet findings from continuous survey research and their importance for early diagnosis of economic growth (German)

Ever longer time-series trends in survey research are increasingly opening up opportunities to determine covariance and formulate hypo- theses about causality through analysis of the connections with other data from company statistics, from media...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1987

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

September 1, 1987

New tunes from an old bottle

This paper concentrates on AGB's services to the Food and Grocery industries, where there are two main panels - the Television Consumer Audit (TCA) for packaged groceries and the Attwood Household Panel for fresh produce. In particular it focuses on...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Improving The Use Of Consumer Panels For Marketing Decisions

Authors: John N. H. Whitaker, Bill Blyth

June 15, 1987

What you say is what you show, and what you show is what you say

This is ASI's 20th year of testing commercials in Japan and the first part of this paper is concerned with briefly reviewing the early findings of inter-cultural comparisons of advertising research data. In data discrimination or sensitivity, there...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR/JMA Seminar 1986: Marketing, Advertising And Research

Authors: George Fields, Lorenz C. Andersen

June 15, 1986

The use of transactional analysis in the development of a new brand's personality

We have attempted to address in an approach to measurement we have called 'Brand Diagnosis'. Our objectives in doing so were to combine the 'divergence' of a qualitative research methodology with a method of analysis which would simulate the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Authors: Max Blackston, Margaret Holmes

Company: Marplan Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

November 2, 1983

Qualitative elements in computer-based quantitative conjunctural construction prognoses

All over the world is different from other industrial sectors; there are incomparably more difficulties to surpass: production takes place (in most cases) in the open air. Unexpected factors like weather and soil conditions have an enormous...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Author: Hermann Lebeda

June 15, 1982

The utilization of social policy research

Existing doubts about the viability of applied social science notwithstanding, systematic, empirical analyses of the utilization of social research are virtually absent. Based upon data from interviews with social researchers and policymakers about...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1979: It Won't Work Here

Authors: Mark van de Vall, Cheryl Bolas

March 1, 1979

The mass media and social change

Since 1972, the Center of Advanced Communications of Havas Conseil France has been leading theoretical and experimental researches on life style factors whose influence can be noticed on the evolution of our society, our motivations and our...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Authors: Bernard Cathelat, Mike Burke

June 15, 1974