Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research™

Next Gen Market Research Oldest and Most Active Online Networking Group for Analytics Professionals
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Editor of KDnuggets just conducted an analysis of all the top Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science groups on LinkedIn with at least 7,000 members. He found that even though membership is strict and we have a zero [...]

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Just writing today to thank RLF for the kind words and thoughtful Ginny Valentine Award ceremony last week in New York. I was both honored and humbled to be recognized together with several great research colleagues. I’m pleased that so many fellow researchers have found the Next Gen Market Research Group as useful as I [...]

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Several Impressive Nominations - Three Winners

Each year the 20,000 Next Gen Market Research group members are asked to nominate the firms and individuals they believe are most innovative. This year our eight Regional Moderators (The NGMR Board of Advisors) carefully considered nominations from 30 firms and several talented market research professionals across three categories.

This week at [...]

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Market Research Academics, Clients, and Suppliers,
It’s that time of year again when we look for nominations for the 2012 NGMR and EXPLOR Awards.
Winners will be honored at The Marketing Research Event in Boca Raton FL this November.
We encourage early submission. More information on how to nominate someone for the 2012 NGMR Award celebrating Innovation in [...]

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What is your research type?
Greenbook’s 2012 GRIT report was released yesterday including this year’s list of the top 50 companies mentioned as being most innovative by researchers. I have to admit it was nice to see Anderson Analytics in the top 15 even though NGMR did not officially participate in the study. We dropped [...]

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The 2011 Next Gen Market Research Disruptive Innovation Winners
Thought Leadership:

Ipsos Loyalty (Wallet Allocation Rule)

Research Concept Deployment:

InsightExpress (Ignite Network)

Non-Traditional Provider (Big Data):

RapLeaf

Individual:

Dr. Bill MacElroy, Chairman, Socratic Technologies

Marc Dresner of IIR will be posting a follow up on The Market Research Event (TMRE) blog with a more detailed summary of the awards ceremony [...]

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Congratulations (Three New Categories)
Ahead of The Market Research Event (TMRE), The Next Gen Market Research Board of Directors and myself have been hard at work reading the many excellent nominations submitted for the 2011 NGMR Disruptive Innovation Awards. I would especially like to thank board members Jan Fager (Managing Director Swedish Marketing Federation), Michael Gadd [...]

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Celebrating The Most Innovative in Market Research
Blogging today to let you know that after discussions with TMRE and EXPLOR we have agreed to extend the nomination deadlines for both the NGMR Awards and the EXPLOR Awards until 5:00PM EST Monday September 12th.
This is due to a significant number of last minute requests, and in consideration [...]

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UPDATED: Scroll to bottom of this post for winner and quiz answers

I’ve closed contest entries into the NGMR Quiz for The Market Research Event giveaway.
Entries are now being tabulated. Please check back this afternoon at 4:30pm EST when I announce the answers and the winner.
Others interested in attending TMRE may use Code:TMRE11NGMR to get a twenty [...]

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