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Profit from research in social and legal context's

All designing a controlled experiment should begin with the design of the ideal experiment. If the ideal experiment cannot be executed because of financial, factual, moral, or legal obstacles, we should make a systematic effort to save the controlled...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Author: Hans Ziesel

August 23, 1981

Optimizing profitability through research amongst retail customers and staff

The study provided measures of the standing of W.H. Smith and its competition on specially-collected attitude dimensions. It also identified which aspects of the staff or the service they provide matter most to customers, and showed how the intensity...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Fred Y. Phillips, Robert Falconer

August 23, 1981

The role of the employee in retail profitability

In 1976, Woolworth's management were given a clear indication that a problem existed when MORI presented the findings of a major study they had carried out on the attitudes of Woolworth employees to the company. Although the main objective of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Keith Willoughby, Robert M. Worcester

Company: IPSOS

August 23, 1981

Profitably using research to identify, develop and launch a new product

The joint paper is given by the then European Marketing Manager of a major brewery company together with an Italian Qualitative Research Consultant who has worked closely with this client over a period of several years. The paper describes the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Michael G. Vineall, Clara Origlia

August 23, 1981

The position and role of research within strategic marketing planning

In this paper I will attempt to do two things. First, I will tell you a little bit about strategic planning and how we have approached this extremely difficult subject. Second, I will attempt to position Marketing Research within the context of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Author: Richard S. Halpern

Company: The Coca-Cola Company

August 23, 1981

Profit from thinking!

The central thesis of the paper is that the profitability of research companies is hindered because market research is not perceived as a profession, either by those who sell research or by those who buy it. The most significant expression of this...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Author: Hazel Kahan

August 23, 1981

Budgeting to determine the profit contribution

This paper is a discussion in broad terms of the first two of these areas and in particular, the interaction between the two. Research data is one of the key inputs of the marketing planning process. However as with advertising or below-the-line...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Author: Bill Blyth

August 23, 1981

Introduction

The papers themselves will be of interest and value to delegates. The scene will be set by a careful positioning of research within strategic marketing planning - a paper from an experienced international researcher corporate planner in an American...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Author: John R. Goodyear

August 23, 1981

TV viewing survey and forecast

The advertiser's concern is to maximize the profitability of his advertising investment. Television tine slot selection several months before actual airing of a campaign is made difficult and uncertain due to quick fluctuations in the audiences. This...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Ghislaine De Cagny, Yves-Charles Quéroix

August 1, 1981