Interview with Kevin Hughes

It’s January, when people often act on their New Year’s resolution to find a better job. With that in mind, I interviewed Kevin Hughes, president of Parallel Futures, a market-research recruitment firm in Baltimore, about the demand for qualitative researchers. Q:...

6 Paths to Innovative Concepts

Jeremy Gutsche, author of Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas, shared six paths to innovation in his recent keynote at the Market Research Association’s Insights & Strategies Conference. These paths seem especially appropriate to...

The Long Survey Will Be Replaced By the Sparse Survey

Ray Poynter argues that the long survey will be replaced by ongoing discussions, by in-the-moment research, and by observational data. I think it is far more likely that the long survey will be replaced by another type of survey instead. This will be much less of a...