The Worst Advice Given to Market Researchers in 2015

Innovation that does require new software tools or applications to be developed can be “coded” or programmed elsewhere. What you, the research expert, might need to know: how to write software specifications so that you can…

Big Data at CRC:

Point-Counterpoint: What’s the Big Deal with Big Data?

I am biased. Having taught the predictive analytics class in the pre-conference workshops, I have some ideas about the role of market researchers, data scientists and the messy intersections between them. I mean us. Wait… OK, well, that’s why it is messy.

Here are a few points made by each speaker at the MRA’s Corporate Researchers Conference, followed by my take away.

Behavioral Economics: Electricity for Market Research Lightbulbs?

What are BE’s implications for questionnaire structure and wording? How about for focus groups and IDIs? What are the implications for pricing research? Branding research?…

7 Top Market Research Articles of 2014

So many great market research articles, so little time.

It is hard to keep up with all of the great market research articles that get published. That’s why I am happy to share a compilation of article synopses. I took seven of the articles I liked best in 2014, and worked with my amazing college intern to write synopses of them. They have now been compiled into a single document.