Resources Library by ANA

Accommodation and flexibility

At the outset, advances in electronic publishing proved to be a boon to print publishers. Computerized typesetting and similar developments permitted us to deliver a more attractive product on a more timely basis, and with a savings in labor costs....

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Publishing in the 1980's

Author: Samuel A. Wolpert

June 15, 1981

Direct access panel

This paper highlights the lack of attention that has been given to the interviewing process for the past two decades; and describes the kind of problems that arise continually under current interviewing procedures. The results of a survey of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1980: Taking Stock

Authors: John Clemens, Colin Day, Debbie Walter

Company: Marplan Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

September 1, 1980

Lasers, microprocessors and the coming revolution in market resesrch

This paper discusses the probable development in the decade ahead of electronic scanners as a source of market research data, and their possibly fundamental implications for packaged goods marketing - and market research practice. Problems of sample...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1980: Taking Stock

Author: Derek Bloom

September 1, 1980

Social change as counter balance to the technology of our days

In the industrialized modem society developments seem to occur as an autonomous process. They do not of course actually become such. A development in a particular direction is the result of a series of decisions. Behind every decision is a person or...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Social Change Analysis As A Tool For Strategic Planning And Decision Making

Author: Jan Terlouw

June 18, 1980

September 1989

It is interesting to note that computerized information retrieval is both the source of the problem and its solution. By this I mean that the availability of vast quantities of information is made possible by the databanks while, in turn, methods of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1979: The Challenge Of Eighties

Author: Samuel A. Wolpert

June 15, 1979

An alternative to transportation

The paper focuses upon the issues involved in travel/communication substitution, a topic given much greater prominence in recent years due to rapidly escalating costs of travel and energy shortages. The purpose of this paper is to present a general...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Authors: K. L. McGown, P. I. Weintraus

August 28, 1977

The influence of technical developments on marketing management information systems in retail organisations

This paper shows how much data may be structured into a computer based data bank in a manner which will allow the company to analyse its sales on a seasonal, yearly and possibly 5-yearly basis, in a manner convenient for assisting marketing...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Marketing Management Information Systems

Author: Gil T. Jones

June 15, 1977

The role of new information technology in decision making

The thesis of this paper is that a new technology exists and that within the next generation, it will drastically alter the jobs of market researchers and the methods by which decisions are made. First, we will look at decision making, its past, its...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: Samuel A. Wolpert

June 15, 1977

Medical information

Efficient management today must try to strike a three-way balance between the demands of the shareholders, the employees, and the public. As we move from the industrial into the post- extravagant society, new criteria will have to be applied to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Foresight Or Hindsight?

Author: O. H. Nowotny

March 1, 1977