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Cost effective advertising

Advertising performance is probably the most discussed subject amongst marketing and advertising people, particularly in the pharmaceutical field. This paper discusses the way that Ciba-Geigy and their advertising agency, the General Advertising...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Information For Decision Making In The Pharmaceutical Industry

Authors: Frank Collins, Geoffrey C. Brook

Company: Gallup International Association

June 15, 1983

A practical 'learning tool' for marketing planning when using an extensive marketing research mix

The 'learning tool' as developed by the authors and called “Business Marketing and Marketing Research (B.M.M.R.) game, is especially designed for two groups of people:- Marketing researchers: To train in understanding the relative position of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Authors: Peter L. F. de Jong, G. G. Immink

June 15, 1983

Application of database technology to environmental data

The paper outlines the content of this proposed new Database product (IMSBASE) and explains how users will be able to work with it in order to draw off articles of commercial interest.

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Information For Decision Making In The Pharmaceutical Industry

Author: James C. Newell

June 15, 1983

Dial +613 612.145 for Australian tourist information

Australian tourist information, from four separate surveys, is being assembled on disc on interactive computers in Melbourne and New York. It can be accessed with the IMS computer programs, which allow you not only to reproduce tables already formed,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: The importance Of Research In The Tourism Industry

Author: Roy Morgan

Company: Roy Morgan Research Pty Ltd

June 15, 1983

Using cumulative pretest experiences to improve the effectiveness of radio commercials

The work reported here is based on a pretesting procedure developed by Radio Recall Research of Homdel, New Jersey, U.S.A. and analyzed by Drs. Sard and Sewall, Over the years pretested radio commercials have been classified on a wide variety of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Effective Advertising- Can Research Help?

Authors: Dan Sarel, Murphy Sewall

June 15, 1983

Family decision making and information processing

The purpose of this paper is to analyze information processing mechanisms as they operate in multi-member (household) decision making units. Based on 400 Information Display Board (IDB) experiments conducted separately with husbands and wives in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Author: Bernard Dubois

June 15, 1983

The fluctuating fortunes of the U.K. Social Democratic Party

This paper describes the methodology, and outlines some of the findings, of an ongoing programme of political research. The focus is the recently formed UK Social Democratic Party. The SDP, in collaboration with its Alliance partner, the Liberal...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Authors: Tony Lunn, Peter Cooper, Oliver Murphy

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

June 15, 1983

How to ensure the maximum contribution of market research to strategic planning using an example from the airline industry

The central theme of this paper is that strategic planning, for both the short and long term, is going to be increasingly important throughout the 1980's and that for effective planning to be carried out information is the key resource. Market...

Catalogue: AMA/JMRA/JMA/ESOMAR Conference 1983: Strategic Planning

Author: John H. Fryer

June 15, 1983

Importance of trend research in the marketing branch of the pharmaceutical industry

This paper discusses The use of trend research at a number of different levels. First at the strategic level, showing how changes in the structure of the market can be detected and used for the development of scenarios to aid long term planning.

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Information For Decision Making In The Pharmaceutical Industry

Author: David Holmes

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1983