Of the 1,503 unique links shared by the Twitter #MRX community the past two weeks, here are the Top 10 most retweeted. This edition was dominated by news from the ESOMAR Annual Congress, the annual gathering of ESOMAR members from around the world: Continue reading »

Wrapping up my “newsmaker” interview series is a discussion with Jeffrey Henning, CMO of Affinnova. Jeffrey made news a while back when he left Vovici for Affinnova, and then again when it was announced that Text Analytics firm Verint had acquired EFM provider Vovici, the company that he had helped lead for so many years. Enterprise Feedback Management is a great example of the convergence of the market research and business intelligence industries so it’s a topic that I and other industry observers follow closely; the recent wave of consolidation in that space is indicative of what we may see happening in other segments in the future. Since Jeffrey is arguably one of the most respected thought leaders in the industry on EFM, I feel pretty lucky that I had a chance to talk with him in-depth about it. Continue reading »

Here are the top 10 links of the 2,056 unique links share on the Twitter #MRX community the past two weeks. Continue reading »

In preparing for the next wave of GRIT (coming this month!) I’ve been going back into the data to look for interesting trends or insights that could inform the questions we want to explore in the next phase of the study. It occurred to me that a little extra analysis on the top 50 market research companies perceived to be innovative could be interesting, so below is a table that shows their total mentions, absolute rank, and the mentions broken out by Suppliers and Clients. Continue reading »

Robert Moran, Margaret Roller, Jeffrey Henning, Ray Poynter, and Kathleen Poulos all contribute great new perspectives to the debate on the “Future of Research”; here is a summary of their views. Continue reading »

I’m still working on my post regarding the Technology Driven Market Research event; I am waiting for a few more videos by Ben Smithee of Spych Research to be loaded up so I can incorporate them into my summary and wrap-up. What I can tell you is that it will focus heavily on my favorite topic: the future of the market research industry. I hope to have that out early this week. In the meantime, you can find all of the coverage from the great team of pros that were blogging at the event on the IIR blog. Continue reading »

Market Research is like the the magic mirror from Snow White; often our clients depend on us to deliver insight. intelligence, and implications for critical decision making, and often we work magic to make it happen. It’s something that …