Four Horseman of the Retail Apocalypse

The “retail apocalypse” has been accelerating, with 11,000 U.S. stores expected to close this year, surpassing last year’s record of 105 million square feet lost. In an omnibus question fielded to 2,000 U.S. adults from May 26 to May 28, 2018, Researchscape asked...

Recommending A Research Career

Just under half of the respondents were likely to recommend a career in market research. 30% of those who planned from college to end up in market research completely likely recommend market research as a career contrasted with 10% of everyone else. Not all who see...

Jeff Bezos on Narratives in Business Decision Making

Another insight I wanted to share from the most recent annual letter to Amazon shareholders: Six-Page Narratives We don’t do PowerPoint (or any other slide-oriented) presentations at Amazon. Instead, we write narratively structured six-page memos. We silently read one...

Jeff Bezos on Divinely Discontent Customers

In his most recent annual letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos shared some perspectives on customer satisfaction: The American Customer Satisfaction Index recently announced the results of its annual survey, and for the 8th year in a row customers ranked Amazon #1. The...