Resources Library by ANA

Unique panel insights for a complex, fast-moving market

The papers describes a specialist business panel (itself a rarety) of exporters and other users of international freight, parcels and document transport services. It provides a series of DHL case studies demonstrating the value of a time series of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Panel Research Conference 2005

Authors: Michael Dent, Tom Smart

April 17, 2005

Panel proliferation and quality concerns

One concern of research users is the possible 'professionalisation' of respondents. Respondents may participate in more than one access panel because they like filling out questionnaires, collecting rewards, or keeping abreast of the surveys of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Panel Research Conference 2005

Author: John H. Faasse

April 17, 2005

Understanding your competitors

The paper argues the need to understand and integrate other forms of information, particularly competitor intelligence, with consumer research to deliver information-based consultancy.It introduces different information gathering techniques and...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2005

Authors: Alice Page, Sally Lai

Company: DVL Smith Ltd

March 13, 2005

There's something about Mary

Mary Goodyear's groundbreaking thinking on the evolution of marketing has proved to be an invaluable tool - useful for explaining and understanding markets, brands and advertising as well as consumer attitudes and behaviour.In this paper the authors...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2005

Authors: Lee Ryan, Rosie Hawkins

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

March 13, 2005

No free lunch in data fusion/integration

This paper addresses the elusive quest for that one single best method for data integration. The authors assert that this is a fool's quest since at the heart of learning theory is the famous No Free Lunch Theorem which makes this an impossible...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2004: Cross Media

Authors: Michelle de Montigny, Roland Soong

June 16, 2004

Helping the clients succeed in China's B2B market

China is not only a huge fast-moving consumer goods market, but an industrial product market with enormous development potential as well. With the aim to better understand the B2B market situation in China and formulate proper marketing strategy,...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2004

Authors: Fred Bai, Guo Ping

March 28, 2004

Mirror, mirror on the wall - Are we the same for all?

This paper presents the results of a qualitative research study among diabetic patients that identifies distinct patient clusters based on existing attitudes and prevalent mindsets. Based on subsequent sharing of this data with leading...

Catalogue: Global Healthcare 2004

Authors: Sharmila Singh, Debraj Dasgupta

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

February 22, 2004

Factoring 'intuition' into the analysis of market research evidence

In the past market research has been painted as being ‘detached’ from the decision-making process, while the ‘intuitive’ contributions from management have been billed as more engaged with what business problem solving...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2003: Management, Accountability and Research

Author: David Smith

Company: DVL Smith Ltd

September 14, 2003

Checking those qualitative pricing inferences

Both quantitative and qualitative researchers often rely on measures of perceived value to gauge interest and purchase likelihood for new product concepts. But do assessments of value provide meaningful purchase heuristics? If so, can small sample...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2003: Management, Accountability and Research

Authors: Aaron Lee, David Dickinson, R. Scott Evans

September 14, 2003