Now that a few days have passed and I’ve had an opportunity to decompress and think about the MRMW conference in it’s entirety, I thought I’d share what the main takeaways were for me. Here are my Top 10. Continue reading »

The full version of the 2011 Honomichl Top 50 Report was released earlier than expected last week. We had previously looked at the Top 10 about 2 weeks ago, but I think it’s useful to look at the full list and contrast it with the GRIT 50 Innovative firms to understand the relationship between innovation as a driver of revenue growth. Continue reading »

MRWeb posted an analysis of the Honomichl Report. The story is obviously that revenues are up and growth is occurring; that is good news for us all. Although after 2 down years in a row, I’m not sure how much that is to truly crow about. I have not done the analysis comparing to 2007-2008 numbers yet but I suspect we’re only marginally ahead of previous levels or maybe still slightly down overall. Also there is still an employment gap to fill where the industry has shed more jobs than it has produced so far in the recovery. Continue reading »

Last Thursday I participated in a webinar debate on the “Future of Market Research”, hosted by Vision Critical. I was joined on the panel by Laura Davies, Vision Critical’s Senior Vice President and Bryan Dorsey, Manager of Online Research at John Deere. You can find a complete recording of the debate here. Laura and Bryan are incredibly brilliant research professionals and outshone me 1000%; it’s well worth the time to listen to it and hear the great insights they had to offer.

What struck me after the debate was two things: first, how much in alignment we were overall on the current state of the industry and where we are likely going, and secondly how far we still have to go to get there. Continue reading »