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Connecting dots

This paper shares a business case showing how qualitative research, when properly interpreted, led to successful business results by finding the proper positioning for a newly launched brand in Sudan, a country with very challenging market dynamics....

Catalogue: Qualitative 2011: Embrace, Inspire And Celebrate!

Author: Diaa Rashwan

November 13, 2011

(Re)searching

This presentation outlines a model currently used to predict future patterns and behaviours by re-visiting existing qualitative data. The model uses inter-disciplinary approaches to research and investigation and draws from a variety of relevant...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2010: Foresight on Moods and Thoughts

Authors: Laura Fry, Rose Tomlins

Company: GfK

November 18, 2010

The vitality of qualitative research in the era of blogs and tweeting

The research landscape has never been richer in techniques and technology, nor has there been such a bewildering choice of methods in the history of Consumer Research. For most of the past 50 years or so, the debate about alternative methods has...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2010: Foresight on Moods and Thoughts

Authors: Alan Branthwaite, Simon Patterson

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

November 18, 2010

MTV seeding lab

The presentation describes a new methodology -Seeding Lab- and its application to a qualitative survey for MTV Italy. Seeding Lab combines the spontaneous approach of a web environment and traditional qualitative ethnographic techniques. Members...

Catalogue: Innovate 2010: Innovation Detonation

Authors: Cinzia Paterlini, Simona Sbarbaro

Companies: Teleperformance Knowledge Services, Viacom International Media Networks

November 16, 2010

Horses for courses - RPD or PeopleMeter?

This paper revisits predictions made in one of the very first papers about Return Path Data delivered in 2005 at WAM . Incorporating findings from a qualitative survey of clients conducted exclusively for this paper, the presenters examine how the...

Catalogue: WM3 2010: Your Audience = Media Consumer + Generator

Authors: George Shababb, Richard Marks

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

October 21, 2010

Is there a future for 'real' qualitative market research interviewing in the digital age?

Qualitative market research interviewing (qMRi) used to be about exploring respondents' innermost feelings in the framework of Freudian psychology. More recently qMRi has become more of a process and less of a craft. We tend now to ask people for...

Catalogue: Congress 2010: The Changing Face Of Market Research

Author: Neil McPhee

September 15, 2010

Everything's global, nothing's really global!

The paper copes with the main theme of the global brand’s localization illustrating how market research can provide useful support in comprehending the modalities with which this may occur. It also has a bottom-up approach, which starts off with...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2010: Foresight on Moods and Thoughts

Authors: Federico Capeci, Clara Salmeri

Company: DOXA

June 15, 2010

Listening to the sounds of silence

In research we base much of our analysis on consumer articulations but do not pay adequate attention to their silences and what they leave unsaid. Especially in eastern cultures where language is layered and subtle, silence is often used to convey...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2010: Eyes on Asia

Author: Shobha Prasad

Company: Drshti Strategic Research Service pvt. Ltd.

April 20, 2010

From spinning a yarn to weaving a rich tapestry

This presentation demonstrates the need for qualitative research to evolve in terms of deliverables. Inspiration was drawn from two different yet rapidly evolving areas; cinema and cricket. For researchers to grow and clients to thrive in the current...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2009: The Evolving Human

Authors: Crystal Nathan, Tamal Roy

Company: Nielsen

November 19, 2009