Resources Library by ANA

The consumer matrix: How to save the humans

We want to quantify and categorize people, we try to create algorithms to predict unpredictable human lives and shove people into focus groups with two way mirrors, feed them crap snacks and hope to understand how they live their lives and how our...

Catalogue: Insights Festival 2020

Author: Gabriela McCoy

Company: Bacardi

September 15, 2020

Visual focus: Better focus groups thanks to smartphones

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica}Why not make use of smartphones during focus groups instead of forbidding them? Within traditional focus groups, verbal communication is leading. We, as moderators, perceive smartphones as...

Catalogue: Fusion 2019

Authors: Margré Nijkamp, Roos Thijssen

Company: Motivaction International B.V.

November 10, 2019

Standing out from the crowd

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica}Through this study, Viacom set out to learn the 'secret sauce' of the best festivals and to evaluate how that might be improved. This paper summarises the key findings from the study and...

Catalogue: Congress 2019: The Global Data & Insights Summit

Authors: Christian Kurz, Anna Noel Taylor, Ian Wright, Jo McIlvenna, Ben Allen, Kerri Fortune

Companies: Viacom International Media Networks, Tapestry

September 8, 2019

On-site scenario groups: From lab to life

The task: Evaluate hospitality, cleanliness, safety, and announcements of Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s national rail. The answer: This study was not conducted in a clinical facility where experiences and expectations were explored retrospectively to...

Catalogue: Global Qualitative 2014: Research Renaissance

Authors: Christine Schaper, Klaus Berkensträter

Company: Ipsos MRBI

November 18, 2014

Lights, camera, research, action!

Even the most innovative qual methodologies tend to follow a similar path brief, fieldwork debrief, with the main consumer interaction being the groups, or ethnography or online community ... this project was different. the qual was only one part of...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2012: Informing Strategic Decision Making And Action

Authors: Mike Jeanes, Andy Barker

November 8, 2012

I sleep with my mobile

Insights about media awareness are by-products of reasoning about online social networks (SNs) focusing on brands or target communities, helping in strategy decision-making on publishing business advertisement and preventing rumor and the spread of...

Catalogue: Consumer Insights 2009: The Pragmatic Approach

Authors: Alexandre Crivellaro, Celina Maki Takemura

Company: IBOPE Inteligencia

February 11, 2009

Brazil breaks barriers

This presentation describes the idiosyncrasies in Brazil and the focus group initiative that has been launched by the IBM Brazil marketing team to engage sellers to obtain feedback and educate them on the company's new advertising campaign to be...

Catalogue: Latin America 2008

Authors: Tim Bohling, Jussara Unis

Company: IBM Corporation

May 13, 2008

A global method, a local approach

This paper aims to demonstrate that by looking at the particularly Japanese factors influencing the focus group dynamic and circumstances, the Japanese focus group can become a more useful and even stimulating methodology.This paper will argue that...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2008

Author: Drago Djourov

Company: Flamingo

April 9, 2008

Contrasting two cultures

Improved education, the internet and the growth of healthcare information and interest in healthcare have made consumers far more aware of causes and alternative treatments for a wide range of conditions. We have evidence from focus group discussions...

Catalogue: Global Healthcare 2008: Consumer Choice

Author: Geoff Minter

Company: The Minter Group

February 6, 2008