Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

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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Next Gen Market Research (NGMR) “Make Research Meme-ingful” Contest

Attention all Next Generation Market Researchers: here’s your chance to prove that researchers can be just as creative, witty and new media-savvy as our marketing, advertising, and PR counterparts - while also making a statement about an important research industry cause or issue by producing viral content.
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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 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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