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Continuos-survey

In consultation with the Magazine Division it was definitely decided in May of this year to start and implement a comprehensive continuous (readership) survey of the magazine market. For the time being this survey will be restricted to developments...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Quality In Publishing

Author: Hein G.M. Brinkhoff

November 27, 1985

New information technology and information handling

This paper reviews, briefly, the new technologies relevant to information handling and attempts to place them in the economic context of Europe to-day. The role and potential of these technologies and their possible application in Market and Opinion...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Market Research And M.M.I.S.

Author: Barry Mahon

January 25, 1984

The use of societal scenarios for improved corporate planning

The operating environment for many businesses is increasingly affected by social and political pressures, in addition to economic and technological ones. The need for systematic planning is generally accepted by business, but until recently it...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Christine A. Ralph MacNulty, Elizabeth H. Nelson

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

August 1, 1981

Attempt at integration of social change for business purposes

While the industrialised countries of Western Europe have managed prodigious feats of production and growth during the past 25 years, current difficulties would seem to indicate that 'unexpected visitors' have somehow disturbed the rules of the game,...

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

Author: Henri Lombard

Company: Shell Global

June 18, 1980

Notes on scenario development for corporate planning

In developing scenarios, the four main areas generally considered are economics, technology, society, politics. Business is accustomed to relating the potential state of the economy to its operations in terms of business confidence; willingness and...

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

Author: Christine A. Ralph MacNulty

June 18, 1980

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

How to communicate with your programmer

The users of management information systems and the designers and programmers of such systems live in different worlds; they have different backgrounds, skills and motivations. As a result communication between the two groups can be difficult....

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Richard W. Hill

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1980

Information systems

Management information systems are still designed to monitor internal historical events rather than to scan the business environment for future opportunities. This paper identifies the specific abilities which companies must have to survive during...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Martin van Mesdag

June 15, 1980

Summing up and conclusions

In the eighties new product development will remain high on the list of priorities for all companies. Since the responsibility for new product development lies in the hands of company management, their overall goals and the strategies to achieve...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: New Product Development

Author: Richard Smit

Company: Nielsen

October 1, 1979