Transforming the marketing research industry
Stephan Thun and D. Randall Brandt
This paper builds a case for three 'imperatives' for transforming the current marketing research industry and organizations that compete within it: a need to shift from designing research for projectability to designing research for comparability to and integration with other data sources; a need to supplement research competencies and offerings with data integration and linkage competencies and offerings; and a need to supplement data collection and analysis services with data deployment and utilization services.
Transforming the marketing research industry
Stephan Thun and D. Randall BrandtMaritz Research, United States
INTRODUCTION
In what has come to be regarded as a classic essay, Theodore Levitt describes organization after organization that has fallen victim...