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Competitor information systems in a multi-national company

This paper has attempted to show that it is not the realisation of the value of this theory nor the constructing of a concept for such a system which is the problem, but the practical implementation in a large multi-national company in terms of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Information For Decision Making In The Pharmaceutical Industry

Author: Janet Grant

June 15, 1983

A booking-in system for a large panel

This paper has been prepared by senior executives at both AGB and Quantime, who, during the first six months of 1981 collaborated very closely throughout the specification, program writing and implementation phases of a computerised...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: The Effective Use Of Panels

Authors: Mark Katz, Jonathan Jephcott

June 15, 1982

The need for international market intelligence systems

The paper argues the case for international market intelligence systems and identifies the key factors that need to be taken into account in developing such a system. The industry is becaming increasingly competitive, more international and managers...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: International Pharmaceutical Marketing Research

Author: James C. Newell

September 1, 1981

Evaluating advertising campaigns

Nestle is strongly concerned with making right decisions about budgets, media and advertising strategies, and, consequently, with monitoring its campaigns. Nestle has been tracking some parameters, generally supposed to be connected with the way...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1981: From Advertising To Communication Research

Authors: Marc Vincent, José-Maria Riera Vidal

Company: Nestlé

June 15, 1981

Magazine covers as a flexible marketing tool

Up to now magazine covers have only been used to attract attention and to protect the inside of a magazine. With the help of a new technical complete manufacturing system - the DOOR-SYSTEM - it will be possible to employ the cover economically as a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Publishing in the 1980's

Author: Wolfgang A. Reinhardt

June 15, 1981

Optimising newspaper sales

This paper is an introduction to the philosophy of supply control systems to optimise newspaper and magazine sales. The construction of the system was started in 1972 as a cooperation between the management of sales and distribution and the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Ivan Biangslev

May 1, 1981

From little ACORNS...

The objective of this paper is to describe the use of a new UK system of area classification, to assist in resolving problems of sample representativeness, sub-sample matching and minority sampling. Other applications of the system, as a descriptive...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Simon J. Orton

May 1, 1981

The use of on-line retrieval systems as an aid for decision making

The decline in the cast of computing has put new decision making tools based on mathematical models and statistical formulae within the grasp of a wide range of commercial organisations. However, mathematical models have their limitations in a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Serge Lustac

June 15, 1980

Interactive service to management

The availability of advanced techniques provides job satisfaction for analytical staff and the use of such techniques provides the information needed by management to maintain a competitive edge. The use of these techniques is usually by specialist...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Elisabeth W. de Bruyn

June 15, 1980