Market Research Best Practice: 30 Visions for the Future

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

PART ONE: FACILITATING DECISION-MAKING.

1 Creating Maximum Value for the Client: Developing a New Strategic Role for Market Researchers (V.L. Smith).

2 The Heart Transplant: Making a Difference to Organizations by Putting the Consumers at the Heart of your Business (Kristin Hickey, Derek Leddie and David Jenkinson).

3 The Holistic Approach: Emphasizing the Importance of the Whole and the Interdependence of its Parts (Christine Blache and Karen Hofman).

4 Integrating Decision-Making and Marketing Intelligence: The Roadmap to the Boardroom (Selim Oktar and Emre Erdoğan).

5 Market Research: A New Generation on the Go (Corinne Rosinski).

6. The Operation was Successful but the Patient Died: Why Research on Innovation is Successful yet Innovations Fail (Omar Mahmoud).

7 When Good Researchers go Bad: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines (Stephen Needel).

PART TWO: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT.

8 Striking Gold in the Qualitative Mine: A New Approach to Build Vision and Generate Insight to Impact Business (Jem Wallis and Vanessa Briese).

9 Improving Honeywell’s Market Research: Combining Online Surveys, Traditional Interviewing Techniques and Web-based Reporting (Karl G. Feld and William K. Stone).

10 Creating Competitive Intellectual Capital: The Henkel Case (Hans-Willi Schroiff).

11 Getting Research Noticed at the Corporate Top Table (Ioannis (John) Dimopoulos, Jonathan Rabson and Daryl Maloney McCall).

12 How to Ensure One Worldwide Heineken Brand Dashboard (Sjoerd Koornstra and Gert Jan de Nooij).

PART THREE: NEW METHODOLOGIES.

13 Possibilities for Ethnographic Research: How to Raise the Validity of Findings and to Facilitate a Better and Deeper Understanding of your Products and Customers (Ji-Seun You and Edeltraud). Kaltenbach

14 Video Ergo Agnosco: From Observation to Insight (Nic Hall).

15 Build Strong Brands and Develop Communications: An Argument for Using Consumer Need States over Values (Michael O’Donohue and Tamsin Addison).

16 Cross Media Measurement: The New Medium Necessitates a New Approach to Marketing Mix Measurement (Rex Briggs).

PART FOUR: MODELLING.

17 A New Generation of Brand Controlling: Evaluating the Effectiveness and Efficiency of the Complete Marketing Mix (Siegfried Högl and Oliver Hupp).

18 The Impact of Consumers’ Commitment to Existing Brands on New Product Launch Strategies (Jan Hofmeyr and John Rice).

19 Predicting the Unpredictable: Agent-based Models for Marketing Research (David G. Bakken and Roger A. Parker).

PART FIVE: FACILITATING DIVERSITY.

20 Managing Global Brands to Meet Consumer Expectations (Malcolm Baker, Greet Sterenberg and Earl Taylor).

21 Audience Measurement in the ‘Dual Economies’ of Poor Countries: A Case Study from Pakistan (Ijaz Shafi Gilani and Mansoor Khan).

22 Jambo Africa: A Discussion on the Challenges and Diversity of Third World Research (Jill Barnes and Solveig Shapiro).

PART SIX: BEST PRACTICE CASE STUDIES.

23 Retail Innovation Learnings from a Segmented Shop Formula: Sunka (Lluis Martinez-Ribes and Xavier Roure).

24 How to Make Good Dough: Revitalising your Product Portfolio by Understanding Consumer Needs (Pia de Wit and Sinéad Twomey).

25 Hide ‘n’ Seek: Driving Disruption in Skincare (Lyn McGregor and James Potocki).

26 Jack in the Tiffin Box: Unconventional Paths to New Product Idea Development (Sangeeta Gupta, Subhransu Rout and Farheen Romani).

27 Becoming Cultural Architects: How to Drive the Influence of Research on Company Culture (Paul Buckley and Hilary Perkins).

28 Show Me Your Home and I Will Tell You Who You Are, or Building Homes Based on Consumers’ Values and Lifestyles (Lena Gilchrist, Britt-Marie Eriksson and Olof Eriksson).

29 Market Research, Accountability, Outcome-focus and Service Standards in the Australian Government Public Sector: How Market Research has Significantly Improved the Reformation of the Australian Government Public Sector (Peter Bycroft, Catherine Argall and Natalie Wearne).

30 Research for Innovation: Fitting the Design Process at Phillips Design (Monica Bueno and Lucile Rameckers).

Index.