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Learning from failures in predicting new design acceptance

In the market under consideration research is not as old as in other markets. A number of companies have not yet given up the practice of judgmental forecasting the market performance of new designs. Therefore we investigated the failures of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Wulf Schlund

September 1, 1998

The future- predictable or otherwise

The thesis of this paper is that senior executives in most companies (if the major pharmaceutical companies are a fair indicator of corporate management) have little incentive to anticipate the long term let alone act upon it. Any paralysis toward...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Stephen Godwin

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 1, 1998

Managing brand health through the marriage of attitudes and behaviour

This paper describes the work used to develop and validate the BrandBuilder loyalty model. Evidence of the usefulness and validity of three measures of loyalty will be presented: -1 behaviourally-based measures of loyalty to the brand; -2...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Adding Transparency To Brand Management

Authors: Allan Baldinger, Charles llsley

June 15, 1998

The growth of market research in Asia and effects of globalization

This paper estimates the size of the market research industry and relates size and growth of the industry to (.DP, C.NP per capita and to the advertising industry with comparisons from developed countries in Europe and elsewhere. Analysis has shown...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific Conference 1998: Marketing in Asia- Meeting The New Challenges

Authors: John Smurthwaite, Henri Wallard

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1998

Air traffic- Quo vadis?

How will air traffic develop during the next twenty years? Aerospace companies all over the world are confronted with this question. This is also of interest to the ordinary citizen, because without air traffic many business and holiday destinations...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1997: Learning From The Future

Author: Franz Tessun

September 1, 1997

Analyzing and forecasting world markets

Assessing the size and nature of national, regional and global markets for specific products has become both simpler and more difficult in the past twenty-five years. Compared to earlier large information gaps, many data points are now available....

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1997: Learning From The Future

Authors: Andrew C. Gross, W. Benoy Joseph

September 1, 1997

Forecasters, marketing researchers and marketing managers

Marketing researchers and marketing managers should get closer to the experts in forecasting and scenario planning. We present a review of the key issues in successfully implementing forecasts in an organization, with specific reference to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1997: Learning From The Future

Authors: Gillian Rice, Essam Mahmoud

September 1, 1997

Business, spirituality and the new millennium

This paper traces and explains the interrelationship of three important fin de siecle phenomena as they are occurring in North America: 1) the intensification of socio-psychological responses to the end of the second millennium and the approaching...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1997: Learning From The Future

Author: Hazel Kahan

September 1, 1997

Evolution of the retail structure in Hungary

There are some geographical regions where the changing retail scene was, or is, a kind of revolution. The central and eastern European countries go from centrally planned and supplied retail systems through privatisation to the phase of initial trade...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: The Changing Retail Scene

Author: Eva Nevihostenyi

June 15, 1997