Nissan Motor’s Naoki Takahashi’s Challenge to Market Researchers
In this post, Nissan Motor’s Mr Takahashi issues a challenge to market research agencies to propose new models for doing business. The world is changing, are you ready for it?
Do you know how to assess innovations in market research and insights?
Posted by Ray Poynter, 1 November 2018 We are surrounded by new approaches to understanding customers and markets, for example: behavioural economics, automated facial coding, neuroscience, chatbots, passive tracking, Artificial Intelligence, and of course big data. However, evaluating these new […]
What is the Counterfactual? – Why do we need to assess it?
Posted by Ray Poynter 19 October 2018 If we are told that a before a marketing campaign the sales were at 10,000 units a month, and after the campaign sales are 20,000 units a month, then it is easy to […]
Courses and Workshop with NewMR – 2018
Posted by NewMR, 17 October, 2018 Sue York and Ray Poynter are widely involved in a wide range of training initiatives and consultancy, with NewMR and a variety of organisations including trade bodies, client-side companies and research suppliers. In this […]
Hints for Building a Personal Brand
To read the Japanese version of this post (from Mr Ryota Sano) click here. Post by Ray Poynter, 31 January 2018 On Friday, 9 February 2018, Sue York and I are presented a webinar on how to build a personal […]
Social Media in 2017, Not much change, but lots of progress
Last week I attended the MRS Social Media Summit in London, and was struck by something that at first seems to be a contradiction – not much change over the last seven years, but lots of progress. Not much change! […]
How did my predictions for 2016 fare?
I have just published Five Market Research Trends for 2017, covering issues that I think will be important over the next year. So, it seemed only fair to look back to this time last year to see how my previous […]
Five Market Research Trends for 2017
At this time of year our thoughts turn to what will excite and challenge us in 2017. Here are my five top picks. Automation This has been one of the key trends for the last couple of years, although much […]
My Predictions for 2016
Despite Nobel prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr’s advice that ‘Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future’, here are my predictions for 2016. 1) Bigger Legal Problems for Google and Facebook This year has shown an escalation in problems for Google, […]
UK researchers help Ted Cruz harvest data from unaware Facebook users
The Guardian website has a long article that looks at how Ted Cruz has utilised a UK company, and work done by UK academics, to harvest data from tens of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge. Ted Cruz is […]