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Qualitative modelling

In the rush to implement cost-cutting procedures and deploy the latest management theory panaceas, management have neglected the need for motivated and loyal employees. This project represents the beginning of one organization's attempt to redress...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/EFMA Seminar 1996: Consumer Trends In Banking And Insurance

Author: James P. King

May 1, 1996

A new approach to segmenting markets using rank-ordered preferences

In this paper we present a new heuristic that can be used to cluster ordinal data and highlight application potentials in the area of market segmentation. We prove the metric properties of the proposed heuristic which facilitates its usage as a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/EMAC/AFM Symposium 1993: Information Based Decision Making In Marketing

Authors: B. Shekar, M. J. Xavier

June 15, 1993

Market research for mergers and acquisitions

The number of M&A transactions involving German firms has risen sharply since the mid-1980s. An important influencing factor was the development of the internal market of the European Community. The demand for professional services in the area of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: Banking And Insurance- Pressure On Profits, Pressure On Research

Author: Hans-Jürgen Kräh

June 15, 1992

Solving the problem of data complexity and information overload

After nearly a twenty-year experience of collecting and analyzing marketing data, designing and implementing management support systems, Research International and Studio della Grisa committed themselves to create a new, powerful, easy-to-use,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: How To Cope With Data Overload

Author: Andrea Traverso

June 15, 1990

A decision support system for marketing strategies based on survey data

This paper covers the problem of: envisaged changes to the current market situation. The analytical method used to establish a micro simulation model is an advanced approach to Conjoint Measurement Analysis of survey data. The final aim of this...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Author: Klaus Stadtler

Company: Infratest dimap Gesellschaft fur Trend- und Wahlforschung mbH

September 1, 1989

How to optimize product characteristics using computerized investigation techniques

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the optimization of the mix for a consumer product in relation to its competitive frame. The paper is divided into different steps that utilize a concrete case to exemplify how the opportunity provided by...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Fausto Falcone, Leonardo Jaconelli

Company: Burke, Inc.

September 1, 1989

A well designed decision support system proves to be essential for an effective marketing information system

The paper introduces an emerging problem-solving technology that consists of people, knowledge, and computer software and hardware wired into the management process. This technology results from the evolution in the use of computer systems for...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Olivier De Schrevel, Philippe Claeys

September 1, 1989

Introduction

This section, as in earlier editions, concentrates on marketing research techniques. While the section is aimed principally at practitioners and students of market research, it may also prove useful to the market research user as a guide to the...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook

Author: Robert M. Worcester

August 1, 1986

The public relations activities of industrial associations in Western Europe, the United States and Japan

This paper highlights the principal findings from this multi-national research effort. Particular attention is focused on the need for such data; the differences and similarities between industrial association and corporation public relations...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1981: From Advertising To Communication Research

Author: James Culley

June 15, 1981