Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

Almost 1 year before the 2012 election, politicians are seeking ways to better connect and influence voters

Next Gen Market Researchers crossing the research only boundary into strategic action…
With November 11th around the corner, and the 2012 election just a year away, those interested in the intersection of research, social media and politics should find today’s [...]

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The largest ever spontaneous collaboration in marketing research industry history!
At exactly 9:00am EST this morning, well over 35 NGMR-Top Bloggers agreed to simultaneously post what they believe are 10 important things to consider for the research industry going forward. More specifically, we agreed to each list what 5 things will continue to be “Hot” and [...]

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Fighting DIY Market Research Trend is Useless

DIY (Do it Yourself) Market Research seems to be getting a lot of attention lately. So today an analogy about DIY market research, and some advice to market researchers concerned about the DIY trend.
But first a bit about the history of the ice making industry courtesy of Guy Kawasaki:
Ice 1.0 At one [...]

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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 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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I typically post mainly market research related topics on this board. While this post isn’t about market research or employee satisfaction research per se, in market research we are often asked to help companies with their employee satisfaction measurement. The Slideshare PowerPoint below is from Netflix CEO Reed Hatings. I think his ideas are fantastic, [...]

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Social Media and Social Network Segmentation
Are you working on a Social Media Strategy/Social Network Strategy for your company and wondering where to focus your resources? If so, looking at use of social network by age may be a good place to begin (see chart below).

Some surprising findings are that MySpace is still very popular among [...]

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Today, I’m talking to Cassandra Jeyaram, PhD, who is Social Marketing Manager, Global Consumer Marketing at IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group). Cassandra and I both spoke on Social Media Marketing at the FTMA (Frequent Travel Marketing Association) held in conjunction with the Freddie Awards two weeks ago.  I think what she is doing is an excellent [...]

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