When it comes to planning a winning corporate strategy, many business leaders fail to consider market research. This is a critical mistake. Done correctly and with creativity, market research can provide real value by serving as the radar that will alert your business to the perils and opportunities that lie ahead.
Excellent marketing insight is the edge that differentiates business winners from losers. It can help your company in its effort to make?not merely serve markets. Businesses that successfully anticipate major marketplace shifts such as e-commerce, PCs, or the demand for bottled water reap rewards of legendary proportions. Few do. Less dramatic but equally important is the opportunity to improve customer understanding and marketing, which can grow profits daily. Businesses should and can do better at this. This book will show you how.
As a result of their work with the Advertising Research Foundation, authors Robert Duboff and Jim Spaeth know that market research can andshould be a backbone of any business strategy. They believe research needs to move beyond its traditional, limited role of a "numbers function" to its proper place as a vehicle for enlightening decision making.
Market Research Matters provides you with tools to better align your company?s market research and business forecast efforts to the overall business strategy and operations. It polishes the traditional marketing research techniques and reveals new ones that can help any company avoid the pitfalls of focusing only on the present?and seize the opportunities that an uncertain future has to offer. A section on "Mapping the Future" includes four variables to consider when dealing with the unknown:
You?ll learn step by step how the research function can best serve your business?s needs. Market research will allow you to:
Understanding the recent past and present is necessary to research the future, but it is not enough. A diagnostic is included to allow you to assess how your business is progressing in each area. You?ll also see how to reasonably forecast what the Internet, the Internet?s offspring, and the new markets they engender will be like a few years from now.
You need insight into the dynamics of the marketplace to act in anticipation of what might happen.Market Research Matters will help you make certain your business is up to the challenge of becoming a truly future focused business.
Acclaim for Market Research Matters
"A timely reminder of the value of market research to the corporate navigator. It doesn?t just log what happened yesterday it also helps you peer into the mists of tomorrow."?Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive, WPP Group plc
"Urgent reading for any serious marketing professional grappling with the changes brought about by today?s turbulent economy." ?Linda Srere, Vice Chairman and Chief Client Officer, Young & Rubicam, Inc.
"Most businesses focus upon building on past successes hoping to keep abreast of competition. This book effectively establishes the case that those companies that look to the future and embrace market research will become leaders through the creation of sustainable
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ROBERT DUBOFF is Partner and the Director of National Marketing for Ernst & Young. He also serves as the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Advertising Research Foundation. Duboff was previously vice president at Mercer Management Consulting, where he spent over twenty years helping clients achieve their marketing goals. He has written for publications such as the Journal of Business Strategy, Marketing Management, Advertising Age, and Across the Board.
JIM SPAETH is President of the Advertising Research Foundation.
Book by Duboff Robert Spaeth Jim
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