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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

TV viewing survey and forecast (French)

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: Yves-Charles Quéroix, Ghislaine De Cagny

August 1, 1981

Coming to terms with terminals

Without wishing to be openly critical of current methods of research analysis I would like to suggest that data is often accepted at face value because it is thought to be uneconomical or inconvenient to subject the data to more critical testing....

Catalogue: Paper 1978: Analysis of Data

Author: Richard E. Kottler

February 1, 1978

European trends and the future of the pharmaceutical industry

Some observers have hypothesised that the future growth of the drug industry will be poor; that the drug industry will become the chemical industry of the 1950s ; that the Golden Age is over. We agree that the Golden Age is over, but believe,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Foresight Or Hindsight?

Author: Samuel D. Isaly

March 1, 1977

Research for progress, performance & profit

B.A.S.E. - Business Assessment Studies and Evaluation - is a market research based training package for improving retail outlet marketing and management skills for the profit of both the retailer and his suppliers. The system was developed to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Author: Roger Sargood

June 15, 1976