Decision Making and Market Research

In this fast paced world of technology and rapid decision making, it is important to have solid Market Research, Data & Insights that support your strategic and tactical decisions.

Market Research helps companies to:

Talk to Your Customers
Research Your Competitors
Continue to Monitor the Changes in Your Channels of Distribution
Monitor the Value that You Provide to Your Customers

Below are some of the ways that Market Research helps you make strategic, operational and tactical decisions:

1. Talk to Your Customers

We recommend the following research methods to “talk to your customers”:

CATI [Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews]
Online Surveys in Developed Markets
F2F Interviews in Emerging and Developing Markets
Focus Groups for New Product Concepts and Line Extensions

2. Research Your Competitors

While your internal staff can conduct desk research and collect information from your sales force, it is important that you secure an outside firm to collect the following information that you cannot collect internally. We recommend the following research methods:

Desk research — above and beyond what you have done in-house to date
Telephone qualitative research calls to suppliers, distributors, customers, and competitors to elicit this information
Ethnographic or observational interviews to add more insights to this competitive intelligence information

3. Continue to Monitor Changes in Your Channels of Distribution

The best research methods to support this strategy are as follows:

Telephone calls to your suppliers, distributors, and supply chain vendors
Face to face interviews when necessary to view the distribution channels
Online surveys for large multi-country and/or large-scale projects

4. Monitoring the Value that You provide to Your Customers

We recommend the following best approach to monitor your customer satisfaction and the value that you provide to your customers:

CATI and online surveys for customer satisfaction
Application of advanced statistical methods, e.g. Net Promoter Score, Conjoint Analysis, Monte Carlo, Max Diff, and Discrete Choice
Applied Customer Value Analysis [CVA analysis]