Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

Anderson Analytics’ Tom H. C. Anderson speaks with Seth Grimes about text mining

If you know of text analytics you know of Seth Grimes, he is a true Text Analytics Guru. While I may know everything there is to know about text analytics in market research, Seth’s knowledge is far broader encompassing all of Business intelligence [...]

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Amusing to me to see few businesses following the follow back etiquette on Twitter that Guy Kawasaki has advocated. A missed opportunity in increasing # of followers an to be courteous to your customers.
Plus with text analytics tools it even gives you the opportunity to listen in on and understand your fans better. Hello! Probably [...]

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Tom H. C. Anderson and Management Guru Eli Goldratt discuss retail sales forecasting

In Saturday’s post Eli Goldratt and I spoke broadly about economics and globalization and how that will effect marketing. Today I ask him a few question about his most recent project, investigating retail. Eli points out how bad marketing is at forecasting… (Post [...]

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Tom H. C. Anderson and Management Guru Eli Goldratt discuss globalization and the world economy

Thursday Eli Goldratt and I spoke a bit about offshoring, and yesterday we spoke about analytical thinking, today we move on to discuss the recent recession (assuming that there was a recession), and more importantly what is to come. What does globalization [...]

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Tom H. C. Anderson and Management Guru Eli Goldratt discuss Cause and Effect Analysis (Post 3 of 5)

We left off yesterday discussing offshoring market research and how companies may not be analyzing the market research business processes, challenges and opportunities properly. Today Eli and I discuss a bit about quantitative VS. qualitative research, and more [...]

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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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NGMR Marketing Guru Interview - Dan Ariely and Tom H. C. Anderson discuss Predictably Irrational and market research
Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Marketing (Behavioral Economist) Guru and author of Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely. Importantly, his book is also currently on the Next Gen Market Research Top-10 list (according to our recent [...]

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Part I: Marketing Gurus
Each year Anderson Analytics and MENG (Marketing Executives Networking Group) releases the Marketing Trends study results. We’ll be releasing results tomorrow, Tuesday the 2nd, and I will also share selected findings here on the blog over the next few days.

To start us off I thought I would share this year’s list of [...]

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