Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

A talk with BAQMaR’s Tom De Ruyck

After the annual BAQMaR conference I asked my friend Tom De Ruyck, who is a co-founder of the organization and serves as its President, a few questions about BAQMaR and his thoughts on Next Gen Market Research. Tom is also Head of Research Communities at Belgian research firm InSites [...]

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Boomerang Market Research Industry Interviews (On behalf of IIR’s Tech Driven Market Research Event)
Leading up to IIR’s The Tech Driven Market Research Event, Leonard Murphy asked to interview me as part of a series of interviews with speakers at the event (on behalf of IIR and Greenbook). I agreed and suggested I interview him at [...]

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NGMR Meme #31 - “Listening VS. Asking”
BAQMaR President, Sr. R&D Manager of Insites Consulting, fellow winner of the AMA’s 4 under 40 Market Research Leader Award winner, Tom De Ruyck and has just submitted our 31st Market Research Meme for the NGMR Meme competition.

Thank you Tom for reminding us that Next Gen Market Research (including [...]

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Social media brings benefits to market research that go well beyond new methodology!

About a month ago, one of our Next Gen Market Research (NGMR) members, Jean Fasching, opened a discussion thread on our group’s LinkedIn forum with two questions about CASRO’s proposed ISO standards:
1) Will US MR firms embrace international MR standards?
2) [...]

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Celebrating Midsummer, Anniversaries & Research Industry Awards!
Summer is in full swing, and I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Happy Midsummer 2010!

This year’s holiday is particularly special for me because it marks the fifth anniversary of Anderson Analytics. Thank you to all of our friends and clients for your support [...]

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RIT MG Survey Sneak Peak Reveals Sample Quality and Offshoring still top two concerns for market research industry
NGMR members recently participated in the Research Industry Trends Monitoring Group (RIT MG) Survey. I believe this is quite possibly the largest survey, in terms of number of market research professionals participating, ever. With 887 completes (nearly 2,000 [...]

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NGMR Internet Meme Update & Example
We’ve already received hundreds of visits and TWO submissions within just a couple of days of making the NGMR Meme Contest announcement! That’s really exciting!
I’ve received some questions about when and how often we plan to post the memes we receive. Ideally, we would like to update once a week, [...]

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Demotivational ISO Poster For Today

I think Reg Baker just said it… LOL,
 

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Next Gen Market Researchers - Protect Our Industry - Oppose CASRO ISO - Support FTO!

The title of today’s post is a prediction. You don’t need to build any advanced model using IBM SPSS - PASW to predict this one. Anyone who knows anything about the US market research business should know that ISO certification is [...]

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Tom H. C. Anderson and Management/Business Process Optimization Guru Eli Goldratt discuss TOC, market research offshoring, and what we are not considering (Post 2 of 5)

Picking up today with the interview I conducted with Eli Goldratt. Today’s (part 2 of 5) focuses more specifically on the growing trend in the market research industry of offshoring. [...]

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Part One of Five - Eliyahu M. Goldratt on Market Research (Customers and Intuition)

I recently had a lengthy talk with Dr. Eli Goldratt, the famous Israeli physicist who has become one of the most well known management gurus of all time partly due to his work with the Theory of Constraints (TOC). His 1984 book [...]

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