What are the key international research questions?

In 2013, ESOMAR published Answers to Contemporary Market Research Questions. A book which seeks to answer the questions that somebody new to a topic would often like to ask, but may be too embarrassed to ask. The book can be […]

What are the key mobile market research questions?

In 2013, ESOMAR published Answers to Contemporary Market Research Questions. A book which seeks to answer the questions that somebody new to a topic would often like to ask, but may be too embarrassed to ask. The book can be […]

Why might a product test show a negative result?

Tens of thousands of new products are tested each year, as part of concept screening, NPD, and volumetric testing. Some products produce a positive result, and everybody is pretty happy, but many produce a negative result. A negative result might […]

If at first the business does not take off, kill it?

Why doesn’t the UK have more successful start-ups? That was the question posed on Radio 4 to Wendy Hall (Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton) on the BBC’s Life Scientific programme. Her answer was that we don’t […]

Why you should take part in the GRIT Survey

Market researchers are really bad at taking surveys, first they mostly decline to click the link, and those that do complain that the survey is awful. However, there are some surveys that are so important you really need to take […]

Lessons from stock market research

Market research tends to look inwards when it tries to assess it strengths and weaknesses, but perhaps interesting comparisons can be drawn from the world of stock market research? A recent article in The Economist reviewed the world of stock […]