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The role of the industrial researcher in maximising opportunities for consumer goods manufacturers

Talk to the majority of industrial and consumer researchers and the only things they are likely to agree they have in common are a shared belief in the application of market research to aid the more profitable operation of the company, and a similar...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Industrial Marketing Research

Author: Jonathan P. Shingleton

October 1, 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

Developing a corporate image for a university

This paper describes a research study conducted for a Canadian University to investigate the student choice process. The paper presents the methodology and the findings of this study and illustrates how such findings can be used to: 1) establish...

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

Authors: John H. Church, David W. Gillingham

June 15, 1981

One model of advertising and communications research with applications for all

This paper describes a model of consumer behavior using a combination of evoked brand sets and multi-attribute techniques that not only predict how considers make their decisions, but provide data that can be used by corporate decision makers.

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

Author: Harry E. Heller

June 15, 1981

What is wrong with the audit data we use for decision-making in marketing

A major and well-known "tool of our trade" is the collection of information through observation. The major applications of observation as an information-collection method may be classified into the categories of the audit, coincidental recording...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1980: Taking Stock

Authors: Peter S.H. Leeflang, A. J. Olivier

September 1, 1980

Competence of marketing research within larger companies

The role of marketing research within larger companies varies widely. The aim of this paper is to evoke a discussion on ways to improve the status of the company researcher in the decision making process. The paper describes the place of marketing...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1980: Taking Stock

Authors: B. A. Devin, F. Maat, M. C. Leitner, R. Mielke

Company: The Coca-Cola Company

September 1, 1980

Scenario development for corporate planning

The term “scenario” is familiar to those involved in forecasting, but too few people are aware of what exactly a scenario is, or how it can best be developed and applied. The author describes a method developed over several years in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Social Change Analysis As A Tool For Strategic Planning And Decision Making

Author: Christine A. Ralph MacNulty

June 18, 1980

Social change as counter balance to the technology of our days

In the industrialized modem society developments seem to occur as an autonomous process. They do not of course actually become such. A development in a particular direction is the result of a series of decisions. Behind every decision is a person or...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Social Change Analysis As A Tool For Strategic Planning And Decision Making

Author: Jan Terlouw

June 18, 1980

The use of on-line retrieval systems as an aid for decision making

The decline in the cast of computing has put new decision making tools based on mathematical models and statistical formulae within the grasp of a wide range of commercial organisations. However, mathematical models have their limitations in a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Serge Lustac

June 15, 1980