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Managing a research company towards standard services and consultancy

In the most recent years demand for services to business enterprises has significantly grown because of various factors. Market research and management consultancy have both profited by this growth but the link between these two services still...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Carlo Erminero

Company: Demoskopea

June 15, 1988

From agency to consultant

This paper has the appearance of a check list. It might well serve that purpose for a market research agency when composing a more or less standardised offering to the parties in a given marketplace. In the context of this seminar it is meant to make...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Kees Fiolet

Company: IBM Corporation

June 15, 1988

Usefulness and future of syndicated/standard services in the business-to-business research field

The paper shows that the development of market research in some segments of business-to-business can be drastically influenced by the development and production of syndicated/standard products. The authors show some definite indications about this...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Authors: Jean Oddou, Dominique Vanmarsenille

June 15, 1988

What price consultancy?

This paper is written from the viewpoint of a London-based market research agency which undertakes all types of international market research. The paper is primarily concerned with the opportunities that may exist for the researcher in the middle...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Michael Wilsdon

June 15, 1988

Possibilities and impossibilities of standard business-to-business research

The paper shows that standard methods in business-to-business research have a very promising future when one looks at the market developments. It will be made clear, however, that these possibilities are only very short-term and that the marketing...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Dick Heinhuis

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1988

Multi-national, global, international or what?

Looking into the future, it is tempting to believe that markets, increasingly, will become 'globalised' and it is even more tempting to believe that therefore there is hope for standardised products in international markets. These temptations, I...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: International Marketing Reserarch

Author: Martin van Mesdag

June 15, 1988

Which dog? Which tail?

In real life central and decentralised research departments exist side by side. Their relative strengths depend on staffing, budgets and the stage reached by the company in the central vs local autonomy cycle. Since both types of department exist,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: International Marketing Reserarch

Authors: Jane Kalim, John Rutherford

Company: Shell Global

June 15, 1988

Towards a European standard for television audience measurement

The paper discusses the way in which new media are likely to develop in the immediate future and considers the implications of these changes for audience measurement systems across the European market. Existing systems are largely designed for...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Media And Media Research

Author: Tony Twyman

June 15, 1988

An investigation of the creative approaches to the standardisation of international qualitative research studies

The question of standardisation of international qualitative studies has arisen in part due to the direct demands which global marketing and advertising is making on research. Because products and marketing strategies are being standardised, so it is...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Qualitative Methods Of Research

Authors: Colleen Ryan, Shirley Kitchen

June 15, 1986