The announcement that Google had launched a formal market research offering sent shock waves through the industry today. What was surprising wasn’t that they did it but how well thought out the offering was. Is there a silver lining in this apparently oh so dark cloud? Yes, I think there is. Continue reading »

In a previous post for Greenbook, I talked through the concept of Research Outlaws, the panel I ran at the MRS 2012 conference this week. In a world without direct questions, four brave researchers would be set a real problem by a real client and solve it using innovative methods. On paper, it worked. In reality…. Continue reading »

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

The opportunity of big data is also its challenge. We are drowning in data, and tweets, posts and video are not the structured data that fits well into relational databases for traditional querying. As a result, big data simply requires a new way of thinking about how to store and analyze data to accommodate these new realities and turn insights into actionable decisions. 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 »

These are the Top 50 firms submitted by GRIT respondents as the most innovative in the industry. The goal of this avenue of inquiry is to glean insight on the drivers of perception around what makes a firm innovative in order to understand how MR firms are capitalizing on the idea of “innovation” to grow their businesses. We believe that this list, developed by our peers within the industry, is a true measure of how successfully these companies are leveraging this brand attribute. 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 »

Announcing the results of the first BRITE-NYAMA Marketing Measurement in Transition Study. The study surveyed senior marketing executives from large corporations in order to gain a better understanding of changing practices in the following areas: data collection and usage, marketing measurement and ROI, and the integration of digital and traditional marketing. Continue reading »

Because technology is evolving more rapidly than ever before, business models, social patterns, and economic trends are insignificant. By the time this paper concludes, a new start-up may have risen from Silicon Valley or Shanghai, throwing speculations and hypotheses into a tailspin. The history that we’ve created is easily undone by two keyboard strokes. Continue reading »