Welcome to the blog of Merlien and Greenbook’s conference Market Research in the Mobile World here in Amsterdam. Continue reading »

Monica Wood (J&J Diabetes Care) recently moderated a terrific panel discussion with three corporate research leaders –Jack Lee of Estee Lauder; Jim Nyce of Sun Products (formerly head of insights for Kraft); and Trish Rainone of Chase. What were the key takeaways? Continue reading »

Market Research is bifurcating – becoming at once more grounded in real people through the rise of ethnography and shop-along interviews where real people bring you into their real-ish lives (or as much as they can given you are an interviewer with a giant video camera in their very very clean house) and at the same time, MR is becoming more Technology centric and dependent. And, it is the intersection of these two where some true beauty happens in terms of human understanding. Continue reading »

The developments in the fields of Social, Local and Mobile (SoLoMo) will present us with two main challenges: 1.) Contact: Where are the people I want to get in touch with, and how can I get them to talk to me? 2.) Contact: Where are the people I want to get in touch with, and how can I get them to talk to me? Continue reading »

We now have increasing evidence from behavioral economics that people are often irrational in their decision making. This has major implications for how we conduct and analyze market research. But what else can we learn from behavioral economics? Here are few key observations that have implications for focus groups and market research in general. Continue reading »

In case you missed it, here is the GRIT Report summary Infographic. Continue reading »

Of the 1308 links shared on the #MRX Twitter community in the past 2 weeks, here are the 10 most retweeted. Continue reading »

Orlando Wood, MD of BrainJuicer Labs, looks at how practitioners are starting to use games in market research, and gives a preview of his session on Games and Play at the MRS this year. Continue reading »

Much of conventional market research assumes that decision-making is done only by System 2 (rational) and that too with little input from System 1 (emotional). Kahneman shows that that is not the case (as demonstrated by a variety of experiments in behavioral economics) and researchers would be well advised to take note and think about how to account for the influence of System 1 in consumer decision-making. Continue reading »

The GreenBook Research Industry Trends Report for Spring 2012 is now available! This iteration of the ongoing GRIT initiative shares findings from the data collection phase conducted in December of 2011. Download your copy of the full report here: Continue reading »