David Smith, Finn Raben, Adam Phillips, Reg Baker, and Vanessa Oshimam conducted depth interviews with industry leaders to better understand what we should be doing to showcase the value of our customer insights. At the ESOMAR Annual Congress in Amsterdam today, David provided seven strategies derived from these IDIs for how to ensure your customer […]
At the ESOMAR Annual Congress in Edinburgh today, Kajoli Tankha, a senior director in Microsoft’s insights group, shared her personal journey of taking on a new leadership position. “New jobs can be dangerous to your career! Almost half of executive transitions are regarded as failures, and four out five execs feel unprepared for their new […]
In a breakout session in Edinburgh today, in the lead up to the ESOMAR Annual Congress, Quentin Dunstan, the Organizational Resilience Market Development Manager at BSI, shared the results of BSI/Cranfield research on resilience. The traditional metaphor of organizational resilience was bouncing an egg off the pavement without breaking it. What do you have to […]
A common thread running through many of the presentations at last week’s Insights Associations NEXT conference was the role of emotion in understanding customer journeys. Anne Beall of Beall Research shared her firm’s research into how emotions affect a customer’s journey through purchase interest, repeat purchase, and brand advocacy. “Consumers don’t think their way through […]
At the ESOMAR Asia Pacific conference in Macao this week, Ray Poynter shared ten conclusions from two ESOMAR reports, Global Market Research 2018 and Global Prices Study 2018. Both reports are free to ESOMAR members. He also debunked four common myths. The facts: The research industry is growing and changing. Traditional qual and quant work […]
At the ESOMAR Asia-Pacific 2019 conference in Macao, Anne-Marie Moir described her proof of concept using voice assistants to conduct interviews. Anne-Marie owns the firm Consumer Behaviour in Melbourne and has been a qualitative researcher for 25 years. Her hypothesis is that “an AI powered voice tool is capable of eliciting a richer response than […]
At the ESOMAR Asia Pacific 2019 event in Macao, Finn Raben discussed the ESOMAR Foundation’s Making a Difference competition and introduced the winner of last year’s competition to share her case study. As background, the ESOMAR Foundation partners with NGOs to help them with research. This year, at the ESOMAR Annual Congress in Edinburgh, the […]
At IIeX North America in Austin last week, Holly Carter of Confirmit shared her tips for adapting surveys to the needs of Generation Z [which Pew Research defines as those born 1997 and later]. Some of Holly’s observations about Gen Z: “They’re all about their mobile phones… They’re on their phones constantly.” Over 95% of […]
At IIEX North American in Austin last week, Marian Anderson, research director at Microsoft, and Zontziry Johnson, MR manager at Microsoft (and member of the MRII Board of Directors), presented an update on how Microsoft is transforming its insights function. “Microsoft’s Market Research team is undergoing a 3- to 5-year journey to change how we […]
At IIeX North America in Austin, Stephen Thompson of Recollective, Tiffany Ng of Experian, and Holly O’Neill of Talking Business LLC shared five key success factors for Experian’s online community, voicesHUB, now going on its tenth year. Holly O’Neill was instrumental in convincing Experian to start the community in 2010, in order to “to hold […]