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Segmenting consumers world-wide

This paper presents two case histories showing how world-wide segmentation of consumers aids in new product development. The segmentation approach was originally used with sensory analysis of products, but has been expanded to concepts on a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1996: Changing Business Dynamics

Author: Howard R. Moskowitz

September 1, 1996

Online services

The paper discusses the importance of new media "online" in respect to market research and describes the problems of conducting surveys for collecting media data with the use of online services. The differences between online- and offline research...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1996: Changing Business Dynamics

Author: Wolfgang Bogner

Company: Target Group GmbH

September 1, 1996

The user information system

This paper describes a new approach to data warehousing, in focusing the data warehousing solutions on the every day needs of data end- users. This new approach is called User Information System to show the difference with other Data Warehouse...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1996: Changing Business Dynamics

Author: Michel Jambu

September 1, 1996

Fuzzy logic to rank attributes

The marketing research community has hitherto examined consumer behavior using mathematical models derived from non-human systems. We have adopted classifications demanding unequivocal decisions in allocating judgements to clear-cut categories such...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1996: Changing Business Dynamics

Authors: Akin Alyanak, Erkani Keyman

September 1, 1996

The importance of marque

Most market surveys, for reasons of cost, are generally limited to owners of cars within particular sectors; the definition generally includes people who have bought a car of the type specified in recent years. Necessarily within such a sample there...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: Building Brand Identity In The Auto Industry

Authors: Ken Clarke, Bob McDowell

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1996

Keeping up with the mobile telephone customer

The paper describes the progress of the mobile telephone market in the United Kingdom and the use of different research techniques employed to measure and develop this dynamic market sector. Using working examples the advantages and disadvantages of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: Telecommunications In A Dynamic Market Place

Author: Colin Shaddick

June 15, 1996

Methodological research update

The paper summarizes the research and findings that contributed to the recent progress Nielsen Media Research has made in increasing the cooperation rate in the national people meter panel. The paper reports some of the research that aided in the...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: Barry Cook, Rachel Mueller-Lust

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1996

Every day low price

Everyday Low Price (EDLP), along with Category Management, Consumer Loyalty and Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) have become the jargon words for Marketing in the mid 1990’s. Everyday Low Price, an American import, was originally devised as a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: The Big Brand Challenge

Author: Judith Passingham

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1996

Prediction of customer segments with Neural Nets

The process of categorising customers is traditionally based on simple slotting procedures or more extensive survey data. The first procedure might be inaccurate and/or uncertain, the latter complicated, time- consuming, and most of all expensive. It...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: Telecommunications In A Dynamic Market Place

Authors: Knut Kvaal, Harald Djupvik

June 15, 1996