Tag Archives: in-depth interview
Design Thinking for Market Researchers
The term Design Thinking can be intimidating. You’ve probably heard it used in lofty, high level terms times by highly creative people. But Design Thinking isn’t just for creative people building innovative new products. It’s an extremely relatable way of … Continue reading
How to write open-ended questions that lead to actionable insights
Whether you conduct interviews, discussion boards, focus groups, shop-alongs, questionnaires, or something else, open-ended questions are the most powerful questions that researchers have in their toolbox. The value they generate is undeniable. Let’s work through some of the pros and … Continue reading
It’s not easy to write a questionnaire and this is the proof
If you’re reading this post, chances are you know how to write. You’ve been writing your name since you were 4 years of age and you’ve been writing well composed sentences since you were about 10 years of age. Of … Continue reading
It’s A Matter of Life or Death: Applications of Medical Market Research
Unlike a lot of consumer research, market research conducted in the healthcare space has very real life or death consequences.Packages that are misread or misunderstand, or packages that are difficult to open or manipulate reduce treatment compliance from both patients … Continue reading
Decreasing Data Precision to Achieve Increased Sample Sizes: A bold, wise move from Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada recently announced a trial usage of Random Tabular Adjustment, RTA in their publicly released datafiles (read the academic paper by Mark Stinner here). RTA is a fancy name for a fairly simple process that will give external researchers … Continue reading
How to design market research telephone interviews that generate top quality data
Despite the massive success of online surveys and the growing use of chatbot and artificial intelligence voice surveys, telephone surveys continue to be a popular research methodology. Whether you need qualitative or quantitative data, a telephone call is a great … Continue reading
Disadvantages of Qualitative Market Research: Science, subjectivity, and sample sizes
In our previous blog post, we shared numerous advantages of qualitative research from its ability to let participants experience concept materials in greater detail, to serendipitous findings, and helping marketers understand the imperfect human being behind the data. Of course, … Continue reading
Advantages of Qualitative Research: System 1, serendipity, and a bird in the hand
Qualitative research includes an extraordinary range of highly useful techniques. It includes techniques where numbers don’t matter (very much) and straying from the plan (a little bit) is a good thing. But what, specifically, is so great about qualitative research? … Continue reading
Qualitative Research Techniques: How To Recruit Suitable Qualitative Research Participants
Have you ever watched a market research focus group or interview and realized that the participants weren’t quite suited for the occasion? Recruiting great participants has little to do with how friendly or talkative a person is so let’s go … Continue reading