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Forecasting indexes (French)

In 1970, we, at IFOP/ETMAR, worked on perfecting the computation of indexes from opinion surveys. By experience, we knew how important psychological phenomena reveal to explain the evolution of economic realities such as the successful launching of a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1971: From Experience To Inovation

Author: B. Roche

Company: IFOP

August 1, 1971

Measuring efficiency of commercial actions with the help of a ISM (Information System for Marketing) [French]

The implementing of an ISM in a firm is a long and complex operation as it is not only a question of the construction of technical tools, but equally and especially the insertion in the firm of a work method placing data processing at the service of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1971: From Experience To Inovation

Authors: Robert Jeanteur, Jean-Mathieu Paoli

August 1, 1971

Name research

There is Increasingly less questioning of the importance which the name of a product (or a service, a company, etc...) represents in relation to the favourable or unfavourable image given by the latter: the name conveys Information - justified or...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1971: From Experience To Inovation

Authors: J. Szekely, Y. Boulvin

August 1, 1971

Utilisation of a risk analysis model to determine the opportunity for a firm to get into a new market

The "Risk Analysis model" used by our company after David B. Hertz' and Mac Kinsey's specialists reports, was specially helpful at a time of preliminary studies we did before coming to the decision to launch a serie of new floor care products in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1971: From Experience To Inovation

Author: G. Fabian

August 1, 1971

Utilisation of a risk analysis model to determine the opportunity for a firm to get into a new market (French)

The "Risk Analysis model" used by our company after David B. Hertz' and Mac Kinsey's specialists reports, was specially helpful at a time of preliminary studies we did before coming to the decision to launch a serie of new floor care products in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1971: From Experience To Inovation

Author: G. Fabian

August 1, 1971

Product testing methodology in relation to marketing problems

Product testing has been a relatively neglected area in the literature of market research. This paper reviews current thinking and practice, discusses some major methodological issues and indicates some areas for further investigation. The first...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1971: From Experience To Inovation

Authors: John C. Penny, L. M. Hunt, Tony Twyman

August 1, 1971

The evolution of forecasting methods and of their integration in business decision-making (French)

The distinction is often made at firm level between strategic decisions implying productive or commercial investment on a large scale and based on medium or long-term forecasts (3, 5 or 10 years), and tactical decisions relating to day-to-day...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1971: From Experience To Inovation

Authors: Daniel Bachelet, Michel Salomon

August 1, 1971

The recognition and systematic study of phenomena of diffusion or contagion

We propose to examine the methods of approach which have up to now constituted the bases of the leading work done in this field. We shall then demonstrate how this phenomenon is generally taken into account when it lies in each of the three great...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1971: From Experience To Inovation

Author: Marc Vincent

June 15, 1971

Combining dissonance theory to product space constructs

Market segmentation has during the past few years been an intensively discussed topic. The discussion has, however, caused a clarification of thinking and a more effective utilisation of various methods. Market segmentation has so far proceeded in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1971: From Experience To Inovation

Author: Eero Meckelborg

June 15, 1971