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:...

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...

Hone Your Hunter-Gatherer Instinct to Innovate

In an inspiring and wide-ranging keynote address to kick off the MRA’s ISC conference, Jeremy Gutsche, author of Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas, discussed how we are often victims of our own success. The life span of a Fortune 500 company in...

How to Maximize the Impact of Your Research Results

At last week’s NEMRA Spring 2015 conference in Massachusetts, Kelley Styring of Insightfarm shared four ways to generate greater awareness of research results, whether within an organization (for corporate researchers), within a client’s organization (for research...

Don’t Mis-: Hit the Mark with Norms

Megan Daniels, a vice president with Phoenix Marketing International, shared four common problems with normative databases at the annual spring NEMRA conference last week. Norms are typically used to compare the results of a survey to: whether for a concept test or an...