Futures & Trends

Where market research and insights are heading next.

post image Blog 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… 8 October 2013 post image Blog 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… 1 October 2013 post image Blog Lessons from stock market research Market research tends to look inwards when it tries to assess it strengths and weaknesses, but perhaps interesting… 30 September 2013 post image Blog Do we focus too much on what clients say? Should we focus more on what they do? In recent online discussions, for example in LinkedIn and on the GreenBookBlog, there has been a growing number… 25 September 2013 post image Blog Let’s protect the basic truths of market research methodology I have just been reading an article about social media as a potential replacement for traditional market research… 16 September 2013 post image Blog A new book to help people to understand insight communities By common consent, research communities seem to have been the fastest growing new research approach over the last… 11 September 2013 post image Blog The next billion internet users The infographic below was suggested to NewMR by Shannon Hamilton who helped create it and we thought it… 10 September 2013 post image Blog The Five Top NewMR.org Posts of 2013 – so far Below is a list of the five posts, on NewMR.org, that in 2013 have been read by the… 3 September 2013 post image Blog Why is research so risk averse? This post started life as a response to Ellen Woods’ well thought out Greenbook post on the paradox… 31 August 2013 post image Blog In market research, is agnosticism the new belief? Traditionally the term agnostic has been applied to people who have not had the courage of their convictions… 6 August 2013 Main Stage 2013 Event Main Stage 2013 Main Stage 2013 – Wednesday 4, December The Festival of NewMR Main Stage, our all day, around the… 4 December 2013 post image Blog When and why to conduct mobile only studies? Following the discussion on tablets in mobile market research, this post addresses the wider issue of why somebody… 17 July 2013