Tag: Marketing & Market Research

Read posts about marketing and market research on Sentient Decision Science’s implicit market research blog.

Sentient's 2011 marketing trends and economic predictions

Sentient Decision Science has predicted the 2011 trends that will continue to transform the research industry and help shape the customer agenda for Global 2000 brands: Behavioral science will supplant traditional market research: Traditional market research is very good at describing what people have done, but has lacked insight into the true drivers of behavior. […]

Advanced research methods elicit most memorable products of 2010

The results of the 2010 Most Memorable New Product Launch study were recently released, with Apple’s iPad claiming the top spot, followed closely by Microsoft’s Windows 7. Sentient collaborated with Schneider Associates and SymphonyIRI to conduct this study. In a new twist to this annual study, Sentient’s advanced methodologies were used to augment traditional survey […]

Hot-state decision making: Understanding Consumer Emotion and Rationality

When consumers encounter promotions while shopping, they are compelled to act on their visceral impulses. At Sentient Decision Science, we call this compulsion hot-state decision making. Hot-states lead to a reduction in immediate self-control (Loewenstein, 2000), and many marketing campaigns emphasize immediate action with hot phrases like “One day only!” and “Call now!”

Most memorable products: 2010

Sentient recently partnered with Schneider Associates and SymphonyIRI Group to conduct the ninth annual Most Memorable New Product Launch Survey. The results of this study were published on Forbes CMO network (http://bit.ly/mmnpl), and can also be accessed at http://www.mmnpl.com/ A few brands stuck out in the mass of new products launched between October 2009 and […]

Heed the Need: Advice to Research Firms from ESOMAR Qual 2010 Keynote

The ESOMAR Qual 2010 held in Barcelona – City of Inspiration – challenged us to re-think how we deliver qualitative research findings. Jackie Hughes’s (Kellogg) keynote speech on opening day urged us not to deliver insights, which can be here-and-gone in a flash. Instead she suggested the notion of “continuous, daily enlightened thinking,” which is sustainable […]

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