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Understanding China: An automotive bamboo shoot

The paper focuses on China, a very important 'new market' for both automakers and marketing research agencies.Business in China, in many cases, means challenge because it is such a different story from others: big, diversified, fast growing and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference on Automotive Marketing 2004

Author: Sheng Tian

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

March 1, 2004

MR and IT

The authors of this paper address the issue of whether some businesses have over-estimated the strategic value of Information Technology (IT) and so have overspent and chased a payoff that has not materialised.The paper examines the arguments...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 2004: Technovate 2

Authors: Clive Nancarrow, Julie Tinson, Merlin Stone, Martin Oxley

February 1, 2004

Brand equity 2010

The author recently conducted an online survey to better understand the views of U.S. and U.K. media and marketing research professionals as they relate to the quality and salience of research resources they use in making day-to-day media selection,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Global Cross-Industry Forum 2003

Author: Craig T. Gugel

December 3, 2003

Focus group research: A misunderstood history

The presentation traces the origination and development of focus groups from the methods beginning in 1941 at the hands of Robert Merton of Columbia University, New York.Attention is given to the intellectual ethos from within which focus groups...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Research Conference 2003

Author: David E. Morrison

November 5, 2003

Looking from both sides of the fence...

This papers provides a dialogue which gives conference attendees the chance to have an inside view on the two sides of qualitative research - practitioner and client. The paper explores the key to the challenges involved, talks to other senior...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Research Conference 2003

Authors: Lee Ryan, Ariane Burgess

November 5, 2003

Consilience

This presentation explores the role of market research in New Product Development. More specifically it examines a crucial aspect of the NPD process: the areas where various interested parties - the client and the consumer, researchers and designers...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Research Conference 2003

Authors: Phelim O'Leary, Des Bryne

Company: IRIS Network

November 5, 2003

What customer information do category managers need?

Processing the right customer information is fundamental for category managers to become more market oriented. Information supply has to respect individual knowledge to support effective information processing and to avoid information overload. This...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference on Retailing/Category Management 2003

Authors: Martin Einhorn, Randy Drenth, Thomas Rudolph

October 26, 2003

Retail innovation learnings from a segmented shop formula: Sunka

At the beginning of summer in 2001, Sunka, a new generation supermarket, was launched in Lleida (Catalonia, Spain) and was successful from the start. The supermarket became quite famous in the retail sector. The aim of this presentation is to present...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference on Retailing/Category Management 2003

Authors: Xavier Roure, Lluis Martinez-Ribes

October 26, 2003

The ten commandments for a successful merger and acquisition in marketing research

This paper reviews key issues of the industry consolidation process which has reshaped the landscape, describe the failure rates observed and state the key dimensions that should be carefully considered in order to reduce these risks.

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2003: Management, Accountability and Research

Author: Jorge García-González

September 14, 2003