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Accountability for actioning results

The author’s main proposition is that market research is of limited value unless steps are taken to develop the market research remit, client side. This should embrace joint accountability for post survey analysis work in addition to primary...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1994: Success Through Adaptation

Author: Mark D. Bullard

September 1, 1994

Customer satisfaction application in the information technology sector

If we had to sum up this telephone survey in three words, they would be: simplicity, speed and performance. The research has been carried out on a continuous basis in year-long waves. It relies heavily on PCs: not only for the actual interviews, but...

Catalogue: B2B Marketing Seminar 1994: Reengineering Of Traditional Market Research

Author: Luciana Traversari

Company: DOXA

June 15, 1994

Listen, learn and lead

The primary purpose of a Market-Based Decision Network is to provide information and process tools to enterprise and operating management. It is a team of experienced people positioned to assist all levels of management by creating a set of processes...

Catalogue: International Automotive Marketing Conference 1994

Author: Vincent P. Barabba

June 15, 1994

Using research to help keep good customers

This paper describes how Lloyds Bank tackled the issue of customer retention. The Bank used research to investigate the extent of defection due to dissatisfaction with the Bank and to explore the process leading from satisfaction to account closure....

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: Banking And Insurance- From Recession To Recovery

Authors: Kate Waterhouse, Ann Morgan

June 15, 1994

Insurance brokers and their clients

NVA is a Dutch association of qualified insurance brokers. The common characteristic of the 950 members is that they are independent; not tied up to one insurance-company. It is important, with regard to the competition of direct writers and banks,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: Banking And Insurance- From Recession To Recovery

Author: Peter Lagendijk

June 15, 1994

The mismeasure of satisfaction

Four areas of research pertinent to the measurement of Customer Satisfaction are examined. The four areas and the key findings from each are summarized below. 1. Theoretical Views Regarding Customer Satisfaction Satisfaction results from the...

Catalogue: International Automotive Marketing Conference 1994

Author: Murlidhar Rao

June 15, 1994

Is customer satisfaction really reflected in traditional customer satisfaction measures?

This paper questions some of the conventional approaches and ways that many manufacturers look at and use customer service research, in particular, Customer Service Monitors: The use of vague 'scales' to measure performance. The way the...

Catalogue: International Automotive Marketing Conference 1994

Authors: Ruth McNeil, Mark Carpenter

June 15, 1994

Measuring up to your own standards

BMW (GB) Limited has been conducting Customer Satisfaction studies among new car buyers in Great Britain for about eight years. The prime objective of these studies has been to assess the strengths and weaknesses of both the product and the service...

Catalogue: International Automotive Marketing Conference 1994

Author: Nigel Topping

Companies: BMW Group, KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1994

Customer satisfaction: Its relationship with the Japanese way of total quality control

One of the elements in Japan's economic success following World War II was the introduction and development of Quality Control. The Japanese way of dealing with QC activities is unique in that it involves participation of all members of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Author: Kazuo Kobayashi

September 1, 1993