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Have You Launched Your Mars Mission? Reflections on the 2018 Insights Leadership Conference
Our own Isaac Rogers had the opportunity to attend The Insights Association Leadership Conference last week in San Diego. While the event covered a range of hot topics in the industry, including candid discussions on challenges and opportunities facing insights organizations, it was an inspirational presentation from a NASA project manager that really piqued Isaac’s
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Is Your Brand Keeping Pace with Consumer Preference?
In our latest research series, we’re tackling the topic of disruption. Namely, what it means to consumers and in turn what their perceptions of the trend mean to us as researchers, brands and marketers. Using text analytics to understand the nuance of the responses, it’s clear that consumers embrace disruption as something that will deliver
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Candy Corn: Trick or Treat?
Around the 20|20 offices, there are a few topics our team debates time and time again. Is pineapple an acceptable pizza topping? Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? And this time of year, it’s always about candy corn – our team is quite divided on whether the colorful confection is a trick or a treat. Being researchers,
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Two Takeaways from the Insights Association CRC
How can data analytics and primary research play nicely together? Jim Bryson, President Several presentations at last week’s CRC event focused on the growing role data analytics plays in the decision support function of corporations. However, in many organizations, the data analytics function has developed separately from the research function, and the two have difficulty
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Decoding Disruption: Consumers Expect Customization and Risk
A disruption isn’t an improvement or advancement, but a radically different approach to a consumer need. – Female, 22-35 We can all think of at least a few business buzzwords we use without even thinking, whether we’re rattling them off during meetings or chatting with a colleague over lunch. Sometimes we use them and hear
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Oreo Cookie Throwdown: Which Summer Flavor Dunks the Competition?
20|20 is a stone cold group of research geeks. When we see a question that needs asking and could benefit from solid qualitative data, we take it upon ourselves to do just that. So, as summer winds down, we wanted to share the findings of some exhaustive research we undertook to settle a critical question
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20|20 Service Week: Changing our Corner of the World
A little girl stood on a beach covered with stranded and dying starfish. As she tossed one at a time into the ocean, an older man approached her and asked, “Little girl, why are you throwing those starfish back into the sea? You know you can’t save all of them.” The little girl answered, “I
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Qualitative Research and the Product Life Cycle
As we shared in our recent infographic, qualitative research is a critical component of the product life cycle. Better information ensures the benefits delivered by the product are those demanded by the market and supports the innovation and communication needed to ensure the product stays fresh and top of mind. In this post we explore
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Bringing the Heat: Insights Association Educational Forum
Our own Julia Eisenberg, who leads our Insights team, had the opportunity to attend The Insights Association Southwest Chapter Educational Forum last week in Texas. With a focus on hot topics like AI, this engaging event provided plenty of chances for researchers to connect with colleagues and build their knowledge of emerging trends and best
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More Profit, Longer Life: How Qualitative Research Optimizes the Product Life Cycle
Quality information is the key to successfully managing the product life cycle – there is simply no substitute if you want to create a long-term business. As we share in our latest infographic, qualitative research can help you optimize all phases of the product life cycle.
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