Five Myths About the Crisis and the Insights and Market Research Ecosystem
Ray Poynter highlights five myths about the Pandemic Crisis in terms of the Insight and Research ecosystem.
Meeting of ESOMAR Council 10 September
Ray Poynter gives a report on the latest meeting of the ESOMAR Council, the pre AGM and Congress meeting.
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, by Reni Edo-Lodge
Ray Poynter reviews Reni Edo-Lodge’s book ‘Why I am no longer talking to white people about race’. The review looks at the book from both a general and researcher’s point of view.
Why isn’t there more Qual Research?
When we think about qual versus quant we see that about 85% of research dollars are spent on quant and 15% are spent on qual? In this post Ray Poynter looks at why that happens.
Good technology is mostly unseen
Ray Poynter explains how the iceberg metaphor explains the relationship between new research technologies and end users of insight.
How Harmoni helped when I had a ‘need for speed’
Ray Poynter describes how using the Harmoni product from Infotools enabled him to analyse a NewMR project at speed.
GRIT on two pages – a short review of the 2020 GRIT Report
Posted by Ray Poynter, 19 July 2020 The full GRIT report is 166 pages, here’s my take on the key points. Context The data is mostly North America, with a chunk from Europe. From ESOMAR’s data, these 2 regions account […]
Meeting of Virtual ESOMAR Council 6 July 2020
Ray Poynter reports on a meeting of the ESOMAR Council, held virtually.
What resources did you miss over the last three months?
Every month NewMR produces content for its sponsors (an industry roundup) and for its Patrons (three important resources from the previous month). As an enticement we are share all the content from the last three months in this post.
When you say something is probable, are you communicating or obfuscating?
When you tell a client that this product will probably succeed, what do they hear, what do they understand? In this post Ray Poynter looks at the problems in communicating the probability of future events.