Industry Threats & Disruption
Risks and disruption facing the research industry.
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The Paradox of Automation and Increased Employment
In Western society, fears and concerns about automation creating job losses and social disruption date back, at least,…
29 March 2016
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UK researchers help Ted Cruz harvest data from unaware Facebook users
The Guardian website has a long article that looks at how Ted Cruz has utilised a UK company,…
11 December 2015
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Will the Ashley Madison hack and law suits spell the end to Big Data as we know it?
The recent edition of New Scientist has a very thought provoking article (After Ashley Madison: How to regain…
1 September 2015
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Market Research, not a hot topic in Social Media
The fourth contribution to the GreenBook/NewMR Collaborative review of social media research comes from Andrew Jeavons at Mass…
21 July 2015
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Social Media Research Reveals Market Research Concerns
This is the second post that relates to the GreenBook/NewMR collaborative evaluation of social media research. This post…
9 July 2015
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Market Research is too inward looking – Social Media analysis by Bakamo Social
As part of the NewMR/GreenBook Social Media project Bakamo Social have produced an analysis that looks at the…
2 July 2015
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The world is changing, so market research must change too
Market research is an applied discipline; its core purpose is to help organisations make better decisions. When the…
21 June 2015
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Should opinions polls be banned in the run up to elections?
For those of you who do not follow UK news, there was an election last week in the…
12 May 2015
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Market Research in the Time of VUCA
VUCA is a term that we are going here a lot over the next few years, it is…
19 March 2015
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Why might a business reject something that is both better and cheaper? (The better tyre example)
I was talking to a company that had a service that was both better and cheaper than the…
29 January 2015
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What is market research?
Market research (or marketing research if you prefer) is what you do when you want to understand customers…
17 November 2014
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Why mobile campaigns and advertising are underachieving and how to change it
Are mobile campaigns and advertising underachieving? At first glance things look great, the spend on mobile advertising has…
6 October 2014