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Insights on the Brink: Revitalizing the Market Research and Analytics Industry

August 4, 2026 0

Paula Rosecky reviews how Insights on the Brink: Revitalizing the Market Research and Analytics Industry challenges the consumer insights profession to evolve from data collection to strategic business partnership. Drawing on personal experience working with co-author Brett Townsend, Paula reflects on the enduring value of consumer empathy, storytelling, curiosity, and business acumen. Readers will gain practical insights into how research professionals can create greater business impact by focusing on decisions, outcomes, and meaningful human understanding. […]

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Rethinking Client Deliverables: What Happens after the Research Ends?

August 4, 2026 0

Your engagement doesn’t have to end after your marketing research report is delivered. The insights you uncover can serve as a springboard for expanded services—creating customer personas, developing key message platforms, or assembling brand guidelines. By applying research insights, you deepen client relationships and elevate your role from researcher to strategic partner. Thoughtfully extending your deliverables can also potentially create new revenue opportunities while reinforcing your core expertise. […]

Cognitive Interviewing 101: Adding a Crucial Blade to Your Qualitative “Swiss Army Knife”

August 4, 2026 0

In an era where AI can analyze thousands of interviews in seconds, cognitive interviewing stands out as the irreplaceable human skill that transforms research design. This powerful technique—borrowed from survey methodology—helps qualitative researchers uncover hidden problems in questions, recruitment screeners, materials, and user experiences before costly mistakes happen. Through real case studies learn how to add this AI-resistant methodology to your research toolkit. Create a service that your clients don’t even know to ask for. […]

Agentic AI and Qualitative Research: A Work-in-Progress View

June 26, 2026 0

The authors examine how Agentic AI can transform qualitative research. By automating repetitive tasks such as transcription, coding, summarization, theme-generation, and evidence tracking, Agentic AI frees researchers to focus on insight, interpretation, and storytelling. It emphasizes transparency, verifiability, and human oversight, proposing a practical, researcher-centered framework where AI complements rather than replaces qualitative judgment. The authors offer a grounded, practitioner’s perspective, highlighting how Agentic AI enhances efficiency, clarity, and stakeholder trust while preserving the integrity of the qualitative craft. […]

VIEWS Podcasts: Bryony Hancock

June 24, 2026 0

In the latest episode of Conversations in Depth, host Doug Keith talks with Bryony Hancock, Senior Strategist at Eighth Day, about her journey from industrial designer to innovation strategist. Drawing on her experience in product design, strategy and innovation, and qualitative research, Bryony explores how imagination, design thinking, and powerful anecdotes can help researchers uncover deeper insights and inspire meaningful action. She shares practical ways to move beyond validating existing ideas to help clients imagine new possibilities. […]

Connecting Bubbles: Collaboration, Belief, and Shaping the Future of Research Associations Together with Anne-Sophie Damelincourt

June 23, 2026 0

ESOMAR President Anne-Sophie Damelincourt reveals a striking paradox at the heart of the research industry—and offers some ways that professional associations help solve it. Drawing on her experience as a marketing client, agency owner, and association leader, she challenges researchers to rethink how they approach collaboration, artificial intelligence, and industry transformation. Discover why she believes connecting isolated “bubbles” of knowledge matters more than ever, and why small steps might be more powerful than big leaps in navigating today’s rapid changes. […]

When Everyone’s an Expert: Qualitative Research in Pet Care’s Fragmented Authority Landscape

June 23, 2026 0

Pet care is one of the most emotionally charged consumer categories, and today’s pet parents navigate a fragmented landscape of authority that includes veterinarians, peers, influencers, and digital platforms. Drawing on extensive qualitative research experience, this article examines how shifting trust dynamics reshape pet care decision-making—and why traditional research assumptions often fall short. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of how reassurance, habit, and lived experience drive behavior, and how qualitative researchers can adapt their methods to generate more accurate, humane, and actionable insights in pet care. […]

Kenya’s Calling: Reflecting on Returning, a Journey for Learning

May 26, 2026 0

This article reflects on returning to Kenya after more than a decade through the perspective of a qualitative researcher preparing to lead a study abroad field program. Blending personal experience with pedagogical insight, it examines how Kenya’s conservation efforts, community-based tourism, and cultural preservation practices have evolved over time. The piece highlights how qualitative inquiry—through reflection, listening, and positionality—helps students engage ethically with new cultural and natural environments. […]

Leveraging AI to Recruit Qualitative Research Respondents

May 26, 2026 0

When traditional methods fall short in finding hard-to-reach qualitative research participants, AI-powered social media ad campaigns can offer a highly effective alternative. These campaigns use AI to target recruits based on specific behaviors and interests across multiple online platforms, as well as help optimize ad visuals, copy, and delivery to boost engagement and reduce cost. Author Tami Wloch shares that a thoughtful, human-guided approach—supported by AI—can deliver efficient, accurate results, helping researchers recruit for qual studies. […]

Ask: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs in Leadership and Life

May 26, 2026 0

Jeff Wetzler’s Ask argues that significant insights, better decision-making, and stronger relationships are often hidden in the unspoken thoughts, feelings, and knowledge of the people around us. His book provides a practical, step-by-step framework—The Ask Approach—to effectively uncover this “hidden wisdom” in both personal and professional settings. […]