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Damasio

We cannot turn our backs on progress and progress is now linked to neuroscience. The challenge is to demonstrate how a neuroscientific approach can represent an opportunity to improve the research tools which are currently at our disposal. Can it...

Catalogue: Congress 2010: The Changing Face Of Market Research

Authors: Nuria Serrano, Cristina De Balanzó, Siemon Scamell-Katz

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 15, 2010

Healthy business

Forecasting of new pharmaceutical products is in the midst of a revolution. Good forecasts must increasingly control for the impacts of health outcomes research, market access, pricing, and promotional response on usage and sales. Fortunately, the...

Catalogue: Global Healthcare 2010: Trends And Innovation Booster

Author: Kenneth L. Sobel

March 3, 2010

Mind games

This paper is aimed to showing ways to enrich and refine our research approaches based on these findings. In addition, a way to actually measure the differences between 'real behaviour' and 'cognitive answer' is examined as well as a way to measure...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2009: The Evolving Human

Authors: Michael Wittenberg, Hans-Bert Matoul, Stefan Hagl

Company: Happy Thinking People

November 23, 2009

The 'insight' story

The final outcome form this paper is a checklist which synthesizes the findings. Using this checklist, a market research professional can evaluate and identify an 'Insight' generated, before communicating to the client and therefore can deliver as...

Catalogue: Consumer Insights 2009: The Pragmatic Approach

Authors: Suresh Ramalingam, Aruni Ghosh

Company: Nielsen

February 11, 2009

It's engagement, but is it research?

The research industry is constantly looking to develop more techniques and approaches to try and get closer to the truth and to generate insight. Our argument is that even when we use a great technique the truth that it is trying to communicate can...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2008: Consumer Choice

Author: Alex Johnston

Company: Jigsaw Research

November 20, 2008

Structured sense-making

As providers of 'research' we conduct inquiry into consumer behavior in order to generate new insights. However, raw data are not insights. Observations without context provide very limited utility; defining sexy new trends each year is no basis for...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2008: Consumer Choice

Author: Richard Radka

November 20, 2008

Realism in research

All surveys inherently contain a potentially deadly flaw - the act of completing a survey does not mimic the true consumer decision-making process. The use of 3D animation helps to mitigate this limitation, giving respondents a more realistic...

Catalogue: Congress 2008: Frontiers

Authors: Michael Richarme, John V. Colias

Company: Decision Analyst, Inc.

September 26, 2008

The secrets of neuromarketing

Today's marketing research is often still limited to traditional pen-and-paper methodologies or qualitative techniques that imply the risk of subjectivity and the limitation to a descriptive approach with little explicatory potential. Medical...

Catalogue: Latin America 2008

Authors: Alejandra Ruiz-Contreras, Javier Cervantes, Oscar Prospero-Garcia, Philipp Hillenbrand

May 13, 2008

Veni Vidi Vici

Our paper seeks to demonstrate the effects and effectiveness of a synergistic usage of two powerful yet passive research tools: Ethnography and Neuroscience. This means in practice that as researchers, we are frequently asked to offer methodology and...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2007

Authors: Neil McPhee, Peter Laybourne

Company: Fathom International Ltd

November 12, 2007