From the Editor in Chief – Summer 2023
Just like at home when you’re ready to rearrange a room for a new look or redecorate with a new color palette—it was time at VIEWS to refresh our design layout; it hadn’t been done for many years. […]
Just like at home when you’re ready to rearrange a room for a new look or redecorate with a new color palette—it was time at VIEWS to refresh our design layout; it hadn’t been done for many years. […]
The profound impact of rituals makes them a rich opportunity for marketers. This article discusses the “invisible” power of ritual on people’s lives and some of the ways brands capitalize on these behaviors. Discover how brands tap into the human affinity for ritual through cookies, sports jerseys, beer, and flight attendant safety speeches. The authors close with suggestions for how qualitative researchers can adopt a ritual lens to develop a deeper understanding of consumer behavior. […]
Steve Schlesinger, Executive Chairman of Sago (formerly Schlesinger Group), talks about the history of the business: from his mother running focus groups in his childhood home to the global company it is today. Steve shares what he’s learned over 35+ years in the industry, and why he is still motivated to go to work every day. […]
Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are the talk of the town in brand and research circles, bringing the ability to scale data analysis in ways the industry has never before seen. Industry veterans discuss how they are using AI to automate some key knowledge worker tasks, along with the potential of LLMs and some of the changes these tools might bring to the research industry. […]
Note-taking is a critical component of the qualitative research process. It pays to organize your notes as you go vs. waiting until the end of field to make sense of your data. But note-taking can be tedious if it’s not strategically planned. The author shares her tips to make note-taking easier and more efficient via the use of frameworks, mapping, and color-coding techniques. […]
Stay Connected to Keep Growing and Glowing Up By Roben Allong, Lightbeam Communications (M/WBE), New York, New York, robena@lightbeamnyc.com “In a real sense, all […]
We acknowledge the contributions of Foster Winter to the VIEWS podcasts, and announce a new episode with April Bell, an empathy researcher and the author of The Fire Starter: Igniting Innovation with Empathy. […]
We live in an increasingly divided world; people are unable to find common ground on simple issues, conversations are fraught with tension and conflict. As conversations are a qualitative researcher’s stock-in-trade, it’s important to realize that at the root of this division lies morality, our sense of right and wrong. […]
Kristin Howell walks us through how she discovered a new passion for pickleball and how she integrates it into her work and leisure travel […]
The post-COVID world continues to evolve. Raising the comfort level, building an authentic connection, and creating a community with our participants have never been more important. Especially when working with diverse participants, we need to make sure their voices are also heard equally. […]
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