Here are a collection of thoughts and updates for your reading pleasure on a pre-Holiday Friday. Continue reading »

We’re all guilty of using buzzword adjectives to describe our insights. We’re trying to to be expressive in the fewest possible words, after all. But maybe it’s time to get back to what the buzzwords actually mean. Maybe we should be defining our insights rather than just adding a too-often used label. We should give our insights their due. Continue reading »

If you believe that technology companies will become major participants in the research economy, then you must also believe that transparency in how these companies do things will be much less than you are accustomed to. Continue reading »

Transparency is a long-held value of the research profession as it is with any discipline that claims to be scientific in its methods. Today we are competing against new entrants in our industry whose values and skills are primarily entrepreneurial and often at odds with the traditional values of our profession. Transparency is one of those values. Continue reading »

How can market research position itself in the age of technological disintermediation? Here are a few thoughts by Jason Anderson. Continue reading »

Neal Cole uses Behavioral Economics to challenge some common assumptions about human decision making. Continue reading »

Today the news broke that QuestionPro (one of the Survey Analytics family of research products) has acquired PollBob. Here is an interview with Vivek Bhaskaran of Survey Analytics on why the deal happened and what it might mean for market research. Continue reading »

After my trip to Chile to speak at the AIM conference I stand by my previous view: LatAm is poised to lead the future in many substantive ways. The region is ripe with opportunity and is developing fast. Here is why I think that. Continue reading »

Insight is arguably the most important output of any MR project, but how do you define an insight? Here is the simple take by a client-side researcher. Continue reading »

Here are 10 of the most retweeted of the 1,623 unique URLs shared on the Twitter #MRX community in the past two weeks. Continue reading »