December 2010
4 posts
11 Things About 2011
I’m so late in writing this post that not only have I missed the rash of 2011 market research predictions posts, I’ve even missed the BACKLASH to the predictions posts (cf Simon’s fine skewering of the genre here).
But nonetheless, here are some - well, not quite predictions, let’s think of them as bite-size ideas about 2011, canapes at a research New Years Eve party. Or,...
The Golf Course And The Hashtag
I have very little interest in golf, and less aptitude for it. I like to blame this fact - rather than, say, any innate idleness - for why I am not a captain of industry now. A game designed largely as an excuse for men of a certain age to stroll around together is one with unparalleled networking opportunities, but alas, these are closed to me by my own incompetence and apathy.
Golf works as a...
Game On
This is the text of the talk I gave at this morning’s Festival Of New MR session. I’ll follow it up with more posts and a reading list, but here’s the basic content. Of course, in this form you don’t get the various screenshots etc from retro videogames, but they’re not essential: the charts were intended as a kind of “hashtag” add-on to the talk - if you...
The Future Of Research - Revisited
Towards the end of last year I put up a post called “The Future Of Research: 10 Odd Ideas”. Though I hedged my bets and said I didn’t think all this stuff would happen in 2010, I thought it would be a nice idea to go back and see how right I was. If at all!
1. Respondents RIP
What I thought: The perceived power of crunchable real-time data will render the individual respondent...