Increasing Your Qualagility

Janel Faucher, a research manager with AOL, talked about qualagility. “Our R&D team came to us with over 200 product ideas, an unprecedented research request.” To top it off, the deadline was short, there was no added budget, and the team has four full-time...

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...

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:...