The world is changing, so market research must change too

Market research is an applied discipline; its core purpose is to help organisations make better decisions. When the needs of the organisations change then market research needs to change to, to ensure it remains relevant. I’ve been involved in market […]

What’s special about Dub?

The post below is the result of a discussion between Ray Poynter from NewMR and Stephen Cribbett from Dub. Q: Can you describe Dub for me in 140 characters? A: We enable researchers, designers and strategists to use technology to better understand […]

The Long Survey Will Be Replaced By the Sparse Survey

Guest post by Jeffrey Henning. Jeffrey Henning, PRC, is president of Researchscape International. He is a Director at Large on the Marketing Research Institute International’s Board of Directors. You can follow him on Twitter @jhenning. Ray Poynter argues that the […]

Why do organisations conduct customer satisfaction research?

One of the great things about teaching an undergraduate course in market research is that it makes you re-visit fundamental questions, such as “Why do organisations conduct customer satisfaction research?” The flippant answer would be because a) everybody else does […]

May roundup of NewMR News

Here is our May round up of NewMR news, containing links to some great blogs and upcoming news. NewMR Survey on Global MR and NewMR: We’ve started a programme of looking into a range of issues related to the changing […]

NewMR Update – All about social media

This post is an online version of the NewMR mailing from w/c 26 April – plus some extra nuggets. This week our NewMR mailing is focusing on social media, including upcoming events and social media resources. But first a couple […]