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Truly, madly, deeply

This paper examines how an ethnography study in two countries (USA and UK) helped a top 10 global pharmaceutical company radically revise how it thought about a medical condition and how clinical trials could be conducted differently by better...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Neil McPhee, Graeme Chrystal

Company: Zaicom Research Plus Limited

September 17, 2006

Defragment the consumer

Consciously or unconsciously, we systematically distort what we actually want to understand: the consumer.We often implicitly assume rational behaviour, neglect interdependencies and over-generalize from isolated findings. Most of all, we often...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Author: Florian Bauer

Company: IRIS Network

September 17, 2006

Capitalizing

This paper details a practical example of CapitalizingTM, a research tool with an innovative method that estimates the brand's contribution to the market share and to the price of a product (or service). This application has been implemented for...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Damien de Ponthaud, Valerie Jourdan, Philippe Jourdan

September 17, 2006

Platform for open collaborative exploration of product innovation opportunities

This paper describes the problems of identifying future innovation opportunities in domains, supporting emergent understanding of opportunities among collaborators and applying the knowledge about opportunities in the product innovation...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Author: Jokko Korhonen

May 10, 2006

Asia: From the world's research back-office to the world's research strategic partner

This presentation shows a successful case history where a high-level market research company based in the United States 'trained' and then 'offshored' part of its complicated modeling systems, making its offshored supplier an essential part of its...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2006

Authors: Howard R. Moskowitz, Alex Gofman, Kedar Sohoni, Ashwin Mittal, Daniel Moskowitz

Company: Moskowitz Jacobs Inc.

March 19, 2006

Towards the evolutions and revolutions in future research

This paper proposes a social networking and Action Research approach to futures research in a time of transformative paradigmatic change. It is the underlying thesis of this paper that this situation calls for hybridization of methods from different...

Catalogue: Brandmatters 2006

Authors: Marco Bevolo, Nick Price

Company: Philips International

February 8, 2006

Striking gold in the qualitative mine

This presentation proposes a three-step model to understanding the consumer's world beyond the category. It proposes this more sophisticated approach generates more meaningful and powerful insights for the client.Critical to the model is the...

Catalogue: Consumer Insights 2005

Authors: Jem Wallis, Vanessa Briese

November 15, 2005

The holistic approach

Qualitative research that follows a holistic model, emphasizing the importance of the whole while simultaneously acknowledging the vital interdependence of its parts, reaps the best results.How companies and their research partners can obtain the...

Catalogue: Consumer Insights 2005

Authors: Karen Hofman, Christine Blache

November 15, 2005

Alice through the looking glass

The author of this paper utilizes the Tao Collage decoding system, which applies Taoist conceptual thinking to a semiotic framework, to provide a glimpse of how qualitative researchers viewed the future.

Catalogue: Qualitative 2005

Author: Luigi Toiati

Company: Focus S.r.L.

November 13, 2005