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Beyond neuroscience

In the traditional model of brand communication, the consumer's mind is a blank page on which marketers can write whatever script they want. But communication is not a one-way process: new information conflates with existing emotions and metaphors to...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Author: David Penn

Company: Conquest

September 19, 2007

Maximizing respondent engagement

This presentation outlines the results of a quantitative study using a split sample design to demonstrate increased respondent engagement and better data quality from Fusion surveys (online surveys incorporating rich media techniques) versus Flat...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Monique Morden, Jennifer Reid, Angus Reid

Company: Vision Critical

September 19, 2007

Research alchemy

This presentation examines the challenges involved in making excessive amounts of often disparate information relevant and practical to senior management.It illustrates a process for bringing together the worlds of qualitative, quantitative and...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Carl Nagle, Helen Williams, Kristin Hickey

Company: The Leading Edge

September 19, 2007

Scalpel or hand grenade?

The market research industry spends a great deal of time and effort to understand how their clients' consumers make decisions what needs their clients' products satisfy, what choices consumers make versus their clients' competitors, how communication...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Subhransu Rout, Sangeeta Gupta

September 19, 2007

Truth in measurement

This presentation reviews a number of studies that have examined visual, interactive tasks in online surveys in comparison to other verbal, and less interactive, alternatives. In many cases, while the respondents enjoyed doing these tasks, they took...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: John Bremer, Randall K. Thomas, George Terhanian, Mick P. Couper

Company: Harris Interactive (Europe)

September 19, 2007

Training the next generation

GfK NOP is seeking to develop excellence through the use of Web 2.0 tools on its graduate training programme by adopting a new organisational form known as the 'Community of Practice' approach. It has led us into a world where our avatar has...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Author: Mike Cooke

Company: GfK

September 19, 2007

Web 2.0 and beyond

Web 2.0 enables users to generate, disseminate and share previously unheard of amounts of information within the web. This necessarily creates information overload, much of it useless to corporations, thus obscuring highly valuable bits and...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Marc Drüner, Werner Remmele

September 19, 2007

Is spontaneity still relevant?

Traditionally, market research has aimed to collect information that is unbiased and therefore 'spontaneous' assuming that market research participants are ready, willing and able to make an 'authentic' contribution without understanding why, how and...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Author: Caroline Pakel-Dunlop

September 19, 2007

Transforming the marketing research industry

There is a greater scope of opportunities as our industry changes.This presentation builds a case for three 'imperatives' for transforming the current marketing research industry and organizations that compete within it: a need to shift from...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: Randall Brandt, Stephan Thun

Company: Maritz Research

September 19, 2007