As keepers of the Market Research Core Body of Knowledge (MRCBOK™), the Market Research Institute International (MRII) and University of Georgia (UGA) continue to be the leading educational organization within the market research and insights community. In 2020, MRII and UGA partnered with ESOMAR and the Canadian Research Insights Council (CRIC) to offer a new […]
SARASOTA, FL, January 22, 2021 — The Market Research Institute International (MRII) today announced that Jeffrey Henning, its executive director, intends to step down once a replacement is identified. The Board has formed a committee to direct the search for a new executive director. The committee will include MRII board members Dan Coates, Stephanie C. […]
At the ESOMAR Insights Festival last week, Pete Cape of Dynata provided a wide-ranging “State of the Panel Industry” address, focusing on the theme of trust. He said, “I get to take a more helicopter view of issues affecting our industry. I get to see significant changes: in our industry, the sample industry, and in […]
At the Insights Association NEXT conference yesterday, Andrea Jones-Rooy of New York University shared some perspectives for the questions that leaders should ask when working with data scientists. As Andrea showed in her Venn diagram, where traditional researchers have statistics and substantive expertise, data scientists add hacking skills; the two groups are more similar than […]
I recently was reviewing this scenario-planning workshop, not realizing it was run by Carol Shea, of Olivetree Insights. Seeing it, I reached out to her to discuss the importance and relevance of scenario planning for researchers right now. Carol and I have often talked at conferences, and I always learn something from her: she has […]
On Tuesday, Ray Poynter, wearing his hat as Chief Research Officer of Potentiate, presented on “The Role of Brands & Insights During a Pandemic”. As part of that webinar, he discussed scenario thinking (more typically called scenario planning in the US) and built a simple model of potential scenarios. To his mind, right now two […]
The Insights Association ran a great webinar on “Migrating Qualitative Projects Online” with Katrina Noelle of KNow Research and Scoot Insights and Jen Dale of Inside Heads and MyVFF. I was lucky enough to moderate the session and got to curate some of the attendees’ questions at the end. Here is a lightly edited transcript […]
What should we keep in mind while conducting research during a pandemic? Good researchers, qual and quant, are empathetic. They empathize with research participants, they empathize with businesses trying to solve specific problems. Now, more than ever, that empathy must be nurtured. Some potential participants are moving kids home from college on no notice, some […]
At Quirks Brooklyn yesterday, Lori Bitter of AARP and Alison Bryant and Lisa Cooper of RTi Research discussed their research into life shifts among U.S. adults aged 45 years old and up. “Why study life shifts? Too often researchers fall back on age or generation to talk about consumers. We understand people are living longer, […]
At Quirks Brooklyn, Tim Hoskins of Quester shared a Kellogg’s case study. “Kellogg’s was stuck in a rut trying to identify a new and compelling way to talk about ‘100% real cheese.’ While the existing campaign had been running successfully for an impressive 11 years, nearly all their competitors had followed suit with the same […]