Resources Library by ANA

Market research for mergers and acquisitions

The number of M&A transactions involving German firms has risen sharply since the mid-1980s. An important influencing factor was the development of the internal market of the European Community. The demand for professional services in the area of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: Banking And Insurance- Pressure On Profits, Pressure On Research

Author: Hans-Jürgen Kräh

June 15, 1992

Of mice and men: Revealing the unconscious with the mouse tracker

In this paper, we will introduce a relatively new technology, the MouseTracker, a method that we have integrated in classic in-depth interviews. This has allowed us to get richer insight on three critical business decisions:- How do we segment...

Catalogue: Fusion 2018 (Big Data World + Global Qualitative)

Authors: Daniel Rayner, George Cox, Genevieve Hall, Jon Osborne, Vivek Banerji

Companies: Shionogi, Insight Dojo

November 11, 2018

On the teaching of effective decision making in marketing

In this paper a study will be described which attempts to investigate certain behavioral dimensions of decision making. The study consists in part of an experimental design employing a problem- solving and decision-making marketing task within the...

Catalogue: Workshop 1976: Educating The Effective Marketing Decision Makers

Authors: Eric Langeard, J. P. Leonardi, R. A. Peterson

June 1, 1976

Managing data for decision making

This paper discuss how computer based information system can improve the problem solving capabilities of marketing services thereby contributing to more effective decision malting within both the marketing and sales functions. The information source...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Marketing Management Information Systems

Author: C. J. McCallum

June 15, 1977

New generation brands

We will describe the case of the cookie brand Toddy, which managed to transform a problem (product scarcity/complex production context) into an opportunity to position the brand and connect with its target market. The marketing team took advantage of...

Catalogue: Latin America 2014: Accelerating Growth

Authors: Federico Barallobre, Natalia Gitelman, María Luz Moreno

April 4, 2014

Exploring the world of water

Danone undertook a rigorous scientific study of the use of water in daily life with an eye to identifying the perceived consumer benefits of water consumption in general. The study needed to demonstrate that water can bring real benefits to consumers...

Catalogue: Congress 2010: The Changing Face Of Market Research

Authors: Tom De Ruyck, Michel Rogeaux, Annelies Verhaeghe

Companies: InSites Consulting, Danone

September 15, 2010

A new approach to segmenting markets using rank-ordered preferences

In this paper we present a new heuristic that can be used to cluster ordinal data and highlight application potentials in the area of market segmentation. We prove the metric properties of the proposed heuristic which facilitates its usage as a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/EMAC/AFM Symposium 1993: Information Based Decision Making In Marketing

Authors: B. Shekar, M. J. Xavier

June 15, 1993

Introduction

This section, as in earlier editions, concentrates on marketing research techniques. While the section is aimed principally at practitioners and students of market research, it may also prove useful to the market research user as a guide to the...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook

Author: Robert M. Worcester

August 1, 1986

Solving the problem of data complexity and information overload

After nearly a twenty-year experience of collecting and analyzing marketing data, designing and implementing management support systems, Research International and Studio della Grisa committed themselves to create a new, powerful, easy-to-use,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: How To Cope With Data Overload

Author: Andrea Traverso

June 15, 1990