ResearchTalk

An insight is…A consumer truth that hasn’t previously been articulated…
(Sue Frost)

Who’d have believed you could devote two whole days of an event to talk about ‘insight‘? Well, fresh from some of the sessions, our little group convenes for a 12 min roundtable to nail what insights are, how they can be recognised, and what’s needed to raise the bar on insights delivery across the whole sector

 STARRING 

• Johannes Hartmann, VP Consumer & Market Insights, Unilever Foods
• Peter Laybourne, Chairman, Fathom International
• Sue Frost, Director, Big Green Door

Recorded @ ESOMAR Consumer Insights ‘07

ESOMAR was kind enough to reimburse travel and accommodation expenses

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Many clients don’t even realise there’s a problem
(Fred John)

 WIN ‘07  Recorded during a world leader meeting, our panel discusses ways to shift MR from a profession that uses closed, carefully controlled methods of data collection to one that cedes control and spends more time listening to people as they air views naturally, and so become more attuned to the new world of consumer self-expression and empowerment

 STARRING 

• C. Frederic John, Research Leader, MasterCard
• Frits Spangenberg, ESOMAR President and founder, Motivaction
• Larry Brownell, Executive Director, MRA
• Philip De Wulf, co-founder and partner, The Mission House

Recorded at the ESOMAR WIN ‘07 event

ESOMAR was kind enough to reimburse travel and accommodation expenses

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 GUEST  Stephen Phillips, founder and Managing Partner, Spring Research

 TOPICS  Research via mobiles; the social media/networking revolution; audio comments from Ruth McNeil (Response Consulting) and Darren Noyce (SKOPOS); making multimedia presentations the norm; effective business development; overcoming recruitment challenges

 NOTABLE MENTIONS  AMI Group, Amnesty International, Bebo, Buzzmetrics, ESOMAR Congress, Jeremy Bullmore, Moët Hennessy, MRS Conference, MySpace, Paris Hilton, Synovate, ToLuna, Tuned In, Unilever, WOMMA, Xbox, YouTube

Music 2006 Pl@stic Soul and The Clintons from the PMN

Series:Weekly