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DATA-DRIVEN INSPIRATION

Can Crowds Out-analyse Researchers?

That was the intriguing notion being discussed by Annelies Verhaeghe of Insites Consulting at the recent Cloud of Knowing meetup.

As John puts it:

[In the Insites study] bloggers were asked to provide images of what they perceived to be cool at a music festival they were attending. Researchers, marketing experts and 4 different types of crowds were then given the task of evaluating these and providing perceptions of their own. The bloggers then graded these in terms of the insights they generated. The 4 different types of crowd included those who were at the festival and also those who were not. And those who knew the bloggers and those who did not. The result showed that crowds appeared to be a better source of insight. And that the most fruitful crowd was one familiar with the context (ie present at the festival) and unfamiliar with the blogger (at several degrees of separation). A fascinating paper which has given Insites a way to use crowds to increase insight generation (they claim) by 200%!

Watch the video to discover what Annelies found.

Can We Agree What Insights are?

ESOMAR Consumer Insights

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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Catching up with the New Consumer

WIN '07 Panel, photo courtesy of Patrice Bondurand

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 

Recorded at the ESOMAR WIN ‘07 event

ESOMAR was kind enough to reimburse travel and accommodation expenses

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Weekly Show 6: Spring Research

Stephen Phillips, Spring Research

 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

 
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