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Decision making does not always require expensive surveys

SKIM Market and Policy Research was founded in 1979 as an industrial market research company and befriended the PC rather early. Thanks to the enthousiasm of the researchers at SKIM and good contacts with Sawtooth, the American developers of software...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: How To Cope With Data Overload

Author: H. J. Kranenberg

Company: SKIM

June 15, 1990

ARF criteria for marketing and advertising research

These criteria are intended to provide helpful guidelines for planning and reporting market research studies and for assisting practitioners and users of market research to evaluate the quality, relevance, and utility of the information reported. The...

Catalogue: ARF Guidelines Handbook

Author: ARF (Advertising Research Foundation) B.V.

January 1, 1990

Guidelines for the public use of market and opinion research

This is an effort to state a professional consensus on how market and opinion research for public use should be assessed and what determines how useful, sound, and credible particular research may be in such applications. The guidelines which follow...

Catalogue: ARF Guidelines Handbook

Author: ARF (Advertising Research Foundation) B.V.

January 1, 1990

Keeping panel respondents fit and willing

In this paper we will discuss the quality of the data obtained by using computerised interviewing in a panel situation. For this form of research some extra advantages of computerised interviewing can be obtained. It will first be shown for data on...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Leo van Doorn, Theo Hess

Company: NIPO

September 1, 1989

The U.S. test marketing scene and a new test marketing methodology for capturing all panelist purchases

The U.S. test marketing scene has been going through revolutionary changes since 1980 with the advent of electronic technology with high powered minicomputers. It is now possible to collect supermarket laser scanner sales data, TV viewing patterns,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: New Methodologies In Test Marketing

Author: Lynn Y.S. Lin

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1988

The Arab as researcher

In this paper I identify three factors that I believe are responsible for the past lack of quality in much of the research in the Arabian peninsula. Of the three factors I propose that the differences between the value systems of the Middle East and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Author: Mary Goodyear

June 15, 1987

Pricing research what should we actually remeasuring?

Pricing research should help companies to calculate the optimum price for each of their products, in order for companies to achieve their basic goal: Profitability. Pricing research however often fails to do this. Indeed, despite the large number of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Pricing And Forecasting In Pharmaceutical Industry

Authors: Martine Leroy-Sharman, Ian Tinn

June 15, 1987

Telematics at the service of marketing

Today, the search for efficiency and productivity has taken on new forms. For equal technical and financial attitudes and potentials, this competition is hereinafter based on new criteria: the quality of the data-transmission and the service offered...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Strategies For Service Management

Authors: Philippe Dorey, Jean-Louis Laborie

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1987

Facing panel non-response, consequences and solutions

In this paper additional support is given to our statement that the quality of panel data must be improved before these data can be used as a firm basis for decision-making in marketing. To this end the case study is extended to cover data which...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

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

June 15, 1982