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:...

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...