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Before the after-shock

Foresight and intuition are interlinked. This paper posits that foresight and prediction are a function of good and intuitive thinking on the part of researchers and research buyers.Intuition is our 'adaptive unconscious'. All of us have this...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Author: Anumita Sharma

September 17, 2006

The patient has left the building- What next?

The Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Group (CTC) at the Nieuwegein-based St Antonius Hospital is highly renowned for its innovation and expertise in the field of pulmonary and cardiac surgery. ADV market Research is a dutch-based market research agency...

Catalogue: Global Healthcare 2006

Authors: Adriaan Ackers, Antoine Driessen, Wim Jan van Boven

June 15, 2006

The non-existing frontier

Innovation is not simply a buzzword, but is becoming a reality within organizations. Market research is positioned as the natural place for user-centered innovation within companies, but this is not always recognized. Ronald Burt's ideas concerning...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Authors: Luis Arnal, José Tapia

Company: INSITUM

May 10, 2006

Breakthrough innovation

Traditionally market research is seen as a part of Marketing with its core task to support Marketing and R&D in their relations with consumers.The Market Researcher can do more - that is to help the functions come up with efficient innovative...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Author: Alexei Bogdanov

May 10, 2006

Making global innovation work for global companies

While there is a significant body of research on the organizational climate that is conducive to innovation, most of this research has a strong 'western' bias, concept, practice or culture. How much of this 'climate' is easily translatable to the...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Authors: Sangeeta Gupta, Rajiv Inamdar

Company: Nielsen

May 10, 2006

How to tell snake oil from white elephants from real innovation in market research

This paper reviews the history of innovation and mistakes in order to use the power of hindsight to improve foresight, in particular to improve the chances of spotting whether a new idea is powerful piece of innovation or an expensive folly.

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Author: Ray Poynter

May 10, 2006

Getting deeper insights into multi-cultural markets

In this era of globalization, finding and then making the most of opportunities in multi-cultural markets has become a permanent challenge for the modern marketer.Culturally distinct, diverse consumers are here to stay, both in immigrant populations...

Catalogue: Global Diversity 2006

Author: Ron Riley

May 8, 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

Hand held devices

For many reasons hospitals have access restrictions that limit market research and data collection.This paper describes an alternative and efficient method to perform hospital market research using hand held devices and an anesthesiology software for...

Catalogue: Global Healthcare 2006

Authors: Daniela Dening, Carlos Eduardo Reis

February 6, 2006