Walking Isn’t Running: How to Amp Up Your Research Writing

For many people in the Market Research & Insights profession, the fun part of our projects is delivering the results in written reports. This is where we really get to… Continue reading Walking Isn’t Running: How to Amp Up Your Research Writing

It’s Opening Night for Your Qualitative Data: Is it Ready to be a Star?

What’s your preferred approach to analyzing qualitative information from focus groups and in-depth interviews (IDIs)? An unstructured approach? Or a structured approach? It’s a reasonable debate. What’s not a rational… Continue reading It’s Opening Night for Your Qualitative Data: Is it Ready to be a Star?

For Market Research Career Success, Embrace “Less is More”

In the Sunday New York Times (January 20th, 2013 edition), Matthew E. May wrote about, “The Art of Adding Through Taking Away.” The article points to the strength of this wisdom through ancient proverb and more recently by quoting Jim Collins, who apparently observed that, “A great piece of art is composed not just of what is in the final piece, but equally important, what is not. It is the discipline to discard what does not fit…