The story of the timetable that wanted to be an itinerary

Most of the timetables in the station office were happy to be timetables. They prided themselves on being comprehensive, on being up-to-date, and easy to read. They worked hard to add symbols for things like buffet cars, cycle racks, and […]

Use October 2015 to become a Smarter Researcher

Last week at Vision Critical’s London Summit I presented the case that market researchers and insight professionals need to become Smarter Researchers, and we handed out copies of my new book on the topic (download it here). People seemed to […]

Ray Teaching in Japan

Improving Insight Skills, Status, and Impact

I have just finished an extended visit to Japan where I was lucky enough to be involved in a wide range of projects aimed at energising and advancing insight and market research. I am looking forward to sharing the benefits […]

Listening to talk about Beacons

The social media research contribution from empirica takes a slightly different angle from most of the other reports in the GreenBook / NewMR collaborative review of the benefits of social media research. Rather than researching market research as a whole, […]

Who else is talking about market research?

The fifth contribution to the GreenBook / NewMR collaborative review of social media research is from Affinio. You can read their full report by clicking here. The core of Affinio’s investigation asked and answered the question “Who’s talking about market […]

Market Research, not a hot topic in Social Media

The fourth contribution to the GreenBook/NewMR Collaborative review of social media research comes from Andrew Jeavons at Mass Cognition. Andrew started by trawling social media for mentions of “market research”, which produced over 7,000 mentions in a 24 hour period. […]