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Can chairs talk?

This paper illustrates how we had to be agile and push the boundaries- yet in doing so we were able to reshape the client's long term strategies.Using a combination of Image Mining and Text Analytics to decipher relative strength of fast growing...

Catalogue: Congress 2017: Visionary

Authors: Preriit Souda, Chiara Davanzo Zamarian

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 4, 2017

It takes many notes to make a symphony

We are in an age of data carpet bombing. Businesses are staggering with the flow of industry updates, investor reports, retail audits, sales dashboards, brand tracks, social listening ad nauseam. The data is intended to empower, yet it overwhelms....

Catalogue: Congress 2017: Visionary

Author: Ritanbara Mundrey

August 24, 2017

Implications of a strategic/competitor focus on the application and process of marketing research

This paper presents a brief review of a structural approach to competitor analysis: A review which includes a presentation of several strategic planning models particularly those involving a competition approach. To help understand the role of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: Michael Parent

June 15, 1985

Uses and application of IMS databases and information sources for competitor analysis

The paper describes, in general terms, the most recent developments of IMS Database Services and relates these to the analysis of competitors. The need for numeric and text information is discussed in addition to the suggested uses of advertising...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Authors: David Brown, Maryanne Roach

February 27, 1985

Competitive analysis and media planning

This paper is a contribution to the ESOMAR Seminar on competitor analysis in the pharmaceutical market. It has the intention to point at practical analysis of competitor promotion. This in itself is not new, of course, but the paper describes another...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Jan A. Schipper

February 27, 1985

The use of international online databases in competitive analysis

Online databases extend the researcher's range of sources so greatly that they cannot be ignored both as a tool in competitive analysis and as a means of keeping abreast of the world's literature on technical and business aspects of the...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Janet Matthews

February 27, 1985

Macroanalysis of the international pharmaceutical industry

With the increasingly international nature of the pharmaceutical industry, market researchers are faced with the task of analysing companies and product sectors that are exposed to a wide variety of operating conditions. Whether conducting analysis...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Steve-Michael Plag

February 27, 1985

Competitor analysis

This paper traces the theoretical development of a company's planning process from basic financial planning to strategic management. It highlights the fact that a competitor intelligence programme is a necessary condition to enable the company to...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Stewart Fairbairn

February 27, 1985

Decoding medical advertising

This paper describes the use of semiotics as an aid to monitoring competitive activity. We have taken a collection of typical ads appearing in the British Medical Press, and subjected them to a semiological analysis. On this basis we have drawn...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Peter Cooper

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

February 27, 1985