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Small is beautiful

This paper will demonstrate the improvements to the user achieved by switching from centralised data-processing to decentralised processing, using Personal Computers.

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: The Impact Of New User-Oriented Computer Facilities On Market Research

Authors: Hans van den Anker, Danny A. Nijburg

June 15, 1988

Cross-tabs on-tap

The paper presents a summary of the state of the art of IDA and is based on our company’s experience of offering interactive access to survey data to marketing/research people in the public and private sector since 1983. This has been observed...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: The Impact Of New User-Oriented Computer Facilities On Market Research

Author: Mark Katz

June 15, 1988

Using an integrated marketing data-base for women's weeklies in the Netherlands

In 1985 VNU was confronted with a rather sudden decline in the circulation of a large part of their magazines. As a matter of course the reaction was: try to find the reasons for this decline! In summer 1985 it was decided to start a comprehensive...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Publishing For Optimum Profit

Author: John Rodenburg

November 25, 1987

Interactive measurement of sales response

This paper reviews the effect of enhancing the value of a pharmaceutical panel by offering the monthly data as both printed reports and through an on-line database service. The panel, JIGSAW, has been running for some 24 months in the UK, based upon...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Improving The Use Of Consumer Panels For Marketing Decisions

Authors: Roger Western, Mark Katz

June 15, 1987

Adapting positioning strategy to consumers' quality and value needs in service markets

NOVACTION'S PERCEPTOR SYSTEM comprises marketing models and an experience database. The models provide an analytic framework for understanding the contributions of brand positioning and marketing mix to consumers' brand preferences and purchasing...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Strategies For Service Management

Author: Chris Macrae

June 15, 1987

An on-line database of a government-sponsored training scheme

The Youth Training Scheme (YTS) is one of a number of training programmes administered by the Manpower Services Commission (MSC) in the UK. From its introduction in the spring of 1983 YTS offered one year of combined training and work experience to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: M.M.I.S- Useful For The User

Authors: Duncan Gray, Stephen Kelly

June 15, 1987

The use of international online databases in competitive analysis

Online databases extend the researcher's range of sources so greatly that they cannot be ignored both as a tool in competitive analysis and as a means of keeping abreast of the world's literature on technical and business aspects of the...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Janet Matthews

February 27, 1985

Assessing worldwide market potential through on-line data banks

The trend towards multinational marketing is growing. Fewer companies now dominate fields such as housekeeping products, health and beauty aids, paper products, hot and cold beverages and so on. Increasingly, the potential for international expansion...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Author: Jacques Chahine

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1984

Online databases and videotex access

The paper describes roughly the activities of the Commission of the European Community in the area of Videotex and highlights especially the European situation with regard to Videotex access to existing databases. Finally it gives a summary of the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Market Research And M.M.I.S.

Author: Roland Haber

January 25, 1984