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Million-dollar snackables

When you're lacking decades of experience, can you still influence the highest levels of decision making in a huge global corporation? Of course, if you speak the right language. This inspirational tale of two young researchers, understanding that...

Catalogue: Congress 2016: #WOW

Authors: Catherine Rickwood, Caroline Smiley

Company: MESH Experience

September 22, 2016

The truth is out there

In recent years thinking from social psychology and behavioural economics has permeated market research. They have laid down a challenge to research by emphasising the importance of understanding how non-conscious response drives consumer decision...

Catalogue: Congress 2016: #WOW

Authors: Julie Knox, Andy Lack, Tom Vannozzi, Luke Mantell

Company: Jigsaw Research

September 22, 2016

Retail's next top model

Marketers have always asked researchers for a model that represents consumer decision-making in an easy-to-work-with format. Naturally, researchers have tried to simplify the real life context to an often-linear step-by-step process, from need via...

Catalogue: Global Qualitative 2015: Creative! Collaborative! Cool!

Authors: Lilli Mix, Janine Katzberg

Company: Happy Thinking People

November 18, 2015

Leading leaders: The often forgotten power of qualitative research

Business management, strategy development and corporate leadership are rational decisions or behaviors. They aim at maximizing companies' revenues and profits and are based on numbers and quantified analyses. But are they really? Can they and should...

Catalogue: Global Qualitative 2015: Creative! Collaborative! Cool!

Author: Emmanuel Huet

November 18, 2015

Path to purchase

Our industry commonly accepts as a given that shoppers take a journey as they come to make a purchase decision. This paper will contradict that belief, suggesting that while a path to purchase may be useful from a marketing research perspective, its...

Catalogue: Congress 2015: Revelations

Author: Stephen P. Needel

October 1, 2015

Globally irrational, locally rational?

Behavioral economics(BE) has been a big trend in market research and as it spreads across the globe, we need to consider whether we're as irrational as we seem to be. Insights from BE are often portrayed as universal human tendencies despite the fact...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2015: Asia Means Business

Author: Elina Halonen

June 15, 2015

Treasure hunt

Games are not only easy and quick but are also highly involving for respondents, researchers and clients alike. Games are also an excellent tool to project people's minds into real life situations and to simulate complex decision-making processes....

Catalogue: Global Qualitative 2014: Research Renaissance

Authors: Sebastian Prassek, Nina Keller

Company: Happy Thinking People

November 18, 2014

Research incorporated

We keep hearing that research needs to be sexier. Well it's time to make that happen! Across industries and clients, time and again, the full power of great research remains unlocked and unused. Yet, research has a story to tell and in this...

Catalogue: Latin America 2014: Accelerating Growth

Authors: Carola Verschoor, Kees Elands

April 4, 2014

Organizational research reinvigoration

As a top five Internet company, AOL has historically struggled with the role of research, analytics and insights. In the past two years, however, the company re- oriented itself around the voice of the consumer. In doing so, research became a...

Catalogue: Congress 2013: Think Big

Authors: Cortney Henseler, Christian Kugel

September 26, 2013