Resources Library by ANA

Learnings from an advanced market Korean trends and technology

Digital technology is growing at an explosive pace, and today, the penetration rate of mobile communication devices, and the carriers' revenue generated from voice calls, has reached a saturation point.Currently, mobile phones have been forced to...

Catalogue: Telecom 2006

Author: Jin-Kook Kim

October 8, 2006

The qualitative story

What is storytelling and how can it be applied to a market research context?The very notion of storytelling having any application to business and to research (given its scientific heritage) is an arguably novel concept. It is only recently as...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2006

Author: Candice Blumenthal

October 8, 2006

How has the Internet changed research?

Marshall McLuhan said the 'medium is the message', but in the early days of online research the common call was that the Internet was just another data collection medium and that it was not going to change research, it was simply improving things...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Author: Ray Poynter

September 17, 2006

Sonic semiotics

Semiotic analyses have generally privileged visual over aural signs.This paper seeks to extend the boundaries of semiotics by recognising that sound and music also function as signs in culture and advertising. Music pushes powerful emotional buttons...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Alex Gordon, Chris Arning

Company: Flamingo

September 17, 2006

Foresight semiotics

This paper focuses on a project carried out for Procter & Gamble by marketing semiotics agency Space Doctors to develop a new model of the acculturation process in the U.S. Hispanic market. The U.S. Hispanic culture today embodies a shift towards...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Author: Marina Anderson

Companies: Procter & Gamble, Space Doctors Ltd

September 17, 2006

Platform for open collaborative exploration of product innovation opportunities

This paper describes the problems of identifying future innovation opportunities in domains, supporting emergent understanding of opportunities among collaborators and applying the knowledge about opportunities in the product innovation...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Author: Jokko Korhonen

May 10, 2006

How to tell snake oil from white elephants from real innovation in market research

This paper reviews the history of innovation and mistakes in order to use the power of hindsight to improve foresight, in particular to improve the chances of spotting whether a new idea is powerful piece of innovation or an expensive folly.

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Author: Ray Poynter

May 10, 2006

Society, brands and the media

Global marketing is undoubtedly now an established discipline. More and more strategies are designed to capitalise on common consumer characteristics across the world.This presentation outlines some of the changes that are shaping societies in the...

Catalogue: Consumer Insights 2005

Author: Sheila Byfield

Company: MindShare

November 15, 2005

Social and technology trends as a springboard for qualitative research

This paper is intended to facilitate interactive ideation on possible future qualitative techniques. The authors' purpose in looking backwards is to work together to look forward, to brainstorm what the implications and uses of trends might be in the...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2005

Authors: Judith Langer, Sharon Dimoldenberg

Company: GfK

November 13, 2005