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The marketing research as renaissance man

A great deal of the current discussion and debate concerning the modern marketing researcher, his/ her skill set/mind set, as well as his/her role within the discipline has focused on the various research agencies, client organizations, and the...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Author: Michael Francesco Alioto

Companies: Market Probe International Inc.,

September 16, 2007

Insights

Insight has become almost a cliché in contemporary marketing and research. There are many different definitions and, even worse, an assumption that the word will mean the same to one individual as it will to the next. This paper aims to cut...

Catalogue: Consumer Insights 2007

Authors: Wendy Gordon, Nitasha Kapoor

Company: Acacia Avenue

June 15, 2007

No more sitting on the fence

This paper describes a study conducted to simultaneously meet two objectives: efficient use of retail shelf space and harmonizing a line-up across countries to decrease the number of variants across four European countries without compromising the...

Catalogue: Retail 2007

Authors: Wolfgang Frost, Thomas Rodenhausen

February 19, 2007

Renewing the original bonds

Market research has its roots in psychological theory and method, but there is a growing gap between psychological understanding and market research practice.Marketers today often rely on implicit or naïve explanations rather than formal theories...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Author: David G. Bakken

September 17, 2006

Stock market activity

This paper shows how methods traditionally used by market researchers have potential application to understand and predict stated future shareholder behavior in the stock market. The market researcher makes two distinct contributions to this new...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Howard R. Moskowitz, Alex Gofman, Samuel Rabino, Don Lowry

Company: Moskowitz Jacobs Inc.

September 17, 2006

Understand Africa

Africa is the world's most diverse and most challenging continent for marketers: normal rules of research do not always apply. African markets have a bad reputation, enhanced by media bias, preconception and prejudice but the continent as a whole has...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Author: Tendai Mhizha

June 15, 2006

Measuring opinion in a 'war zone'

There was no history of polling in Iraq prior to 2003. a census existed but there was no social nor opinion research available. the hazard of ongoing violence and bombing meant that it was nigh on impossible for those trying to understand...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Johnny Heald, Munqith Daghir

Companies: ORB, IIACSS

June 15, 2006

Save The Children

The work has been two-tailed and so the paper is:• Part I addresses the potential for working pro bono (unpaid for a good cause) with market research, the difficulties experienced and arrive at suggestions for how these could be overcome in the...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Henrik Hall, Marie Florence Madom, Luisa Mercedes Ravelo

Company: CIBLE

June 15, 2006

Hybrid market research

To address the needs of the dynamic industry, automotive market researchers must bridge the traditional divide between 'qual' and 'quant' methods. The paper advocates mixed-model solutions that combine the strengths of both sets of methodologies for...

Catalogue: Automotive 2006

Authors: Heinrich Rademacher, Peter Böhm, Sebastian Knauer, Christina Eisenschmid

Company: PSYMA GROUP AG

February 27, 2006