So SAP just announced that it’s buying Qualtrics for $8bn. That’s roughly two Kantars, one Nielsen or about a fifth of the global research industry. It’s also around 20 times Qualtrics’ forecast revenue for 2018 ($400m). That’s a serious premium. For comparison, IBM is paying around 10x revenue for Red Hat; and salesforce.com trades at […]
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Review of KnowledgeHound, a search-based survey data repository with features for analysing, visualising and storytelling with survey data.
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A market map of automated survey research tools, grouped by what you can use them for: micro-surveys, template studies or fully customised research.
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It’s all about the experience Today’s battleground is Customer Experience (CX): to win in the marketplace, brands need to deliver it in a seamless, consistent and fulfilling way. Research suggests the rewards for getting CX right are significant (increased customer retention and loyalty); as are the penalties for getting it wrong (customer churn and brand
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Automated survey research is clumsy label for software that is transforming market research. Read out about 6 innovative platforms here.
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Who would start a research agency these days? If you’re thinking about doing it in the UK, make sure you read the latest Plimsoll report into the sector first. It’s a sobering read. It is based on financial analysis of the 720 largest market research firms in the country. If that stat by itself doesn’t give
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A quick look at six different varieties of text analytics platforms for research: for customer experience, social listening, emotion AI, free tools, integrations and survey coding.
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Mike Stevens looks at how Orange, Worldpay and Just Eat have adopted research technology platforms to transform their management of customer insight
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Read how successful research teams at Zillow, O2 and PMI drive behaviour change by appealing to users’ hearts as well as their heads.
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Research & Analytics teams are changing: read how insight leaders are transforming their functions with new skills, more tools and greater commercial impact
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My last post here examined how tech tools can help in an ever-increasing set of research scenarios (checking hypotheses on the fly, qual at scale, easier analysis of ethno data & remote qual analysis). In this one, I look at where this might lead us. New skills, new roles, new tasks So what’s the payoff
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The future of research is supposed to be healthy But it’s a conundrum. Managers are hungrier for customer insight and data than they have ever been. Maybe they’re more risk averse these days, and have to tick the box. Or maybe there’s a real trend toward putting the user at the heart of decisions. Either
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