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  • On this episode of Now that's Significant, host Michael Howard, is joined by Todd Horvitz, Head of Customer Insights at HP, who previously held senior insights roles at Disney, Wells Fargo, and Kantar.

    The episode opens with the host quoting lines from David Bowie's song Changes, which setup a discussion on the changing nature of the market research industry, as witnessed by Todd. The rendition was not one to remember, but the discussion certainly was.

    Talking points began focusing on the workplace in general, which included:

    - The changing state of the workplace, especially from a technology perspective.

    - The proliferation of the internet and mobile phones and tables.

    - The rate at which business has sped up, innovation speeding up, and an obsession to maximize productivity.

    - Diversity has also been a major change for the better too, with a greater number of perspectives feeding into the way we work and deliver value for society.

    The discussion then moved on more specifically to market research.

    - The way that market research and access to data has been democratized across organizations.

    - DIY and smart analysis tools have increased the speed to insight on both the agency and corporate side

    - We've had low engagement and increased fraudulent activity as people's time is increasingly taken up, and as bad actors attempt to game the system for financial gain.

    - AI has threatened to take over jobs, while IT security teams scramble to ensure any access or use is done in a safe environment.

    - AI has also provided a tool for market researchers to be more efficient in the way they work.

    Reflecting on how to make the most of all this change, Todd reminded us we need to buy the right tools and have a clear plan on how you'll proceed. He touched on agile, and reinforced that while it's valuable, it's not for everyone.

    Todd also touched on internal resistance that one may face when steering the organization away from historical ways of working.

    Finally, Todd mentioned some things to do and not to do, both at work and outside of work, to help make yourself a better market researcher. Some important points worth remembering regardless of our time in the industry.

    We hope you enjoy the episode.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

  • In this episode of Now that’s Significant, a market research podcast, host Michael Howard is joined by Jennifer Trich Kremer, UX Research Lead for Logitech's digital experience. Jennifer studies consumer shopping behaviors and user experience benchmarking to deliver actionable insights. Her expertise spans qualitative and quantitative research, including combining analytics, market, and user research data to tell a holistic user story.

    Jennifer's focused on improving the user experience throughout her career, splitting time between design and research. Her work was integral in creating the first online ordering system for IBM, automating the manual printing process at Hewitt, and creating easy-to-use healthcare experiences. While her design experiences have been meaningful, she now focuses on research, data, and mentorship.

    On the episode, Michael and Jennifer discuss how market researchers can make their work more impactful, ensuring it has a place in an organization, and how it can be presented to different audiences.

    They also discuss Big Qual, where qualitative research is going, the three elements of today's qualitative research toolkit, and more.

    We hope you enjoy.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

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  • Host of Now that's Significant Michael Howard is joined by Benoit Tranzer, the Global Service Line Leader for Brand Health Tracking at Ipsos.

    In this conversation, Michael and Benoit discuss the current landscape of brand tracking, how it has evolved due to the apparent never-ending chaos in a global context, and how brand tracking can help organizations to navigate through to complexity to a new order where they can thrive.

    The chaos referred to in the podcast is mainly characterized by overlapping crises, which can make consumers feel overwhelmed and disheartened. The two highlighted that brands and market researchers are operating within this context and their work is now more important than ever.

    Benoit discusses how brand tracking needs to evolve in response to the current chaotic global context and how brands can achieve success by shaping expectations, integrating context, and acting with empathy.

    The podcast episode also touches on how the role of AI and advanced technology in brand tracking, whilst emphasizing the importance of human creativity and curiosity, and how AI can be used to challenge human assumptions and improve decision-making.

    We hope you enjoy the episode.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

  • On this episode of Now that’s Significant, a Market Research Podcast host Horst Feldhaeuser, Group Services Director at Infotools, is joined by Michelle Andre, Managing Director, and Jessica Sage, Marketing & Events Director, at Women in Research - commonly referred to as WIRe.

    Michelle and Jessica were both happy to come onto the podcast to talk about WIRe, its 18-year history, what it's known for, what it's not, and that WIRe are FINALLY launching a city event chapter in Auckland!

    Horst also reflects on his time as a WIRe mentor, which prompts a good discussion on the role of mentorship as well as how much of a need there are for senior mentors in the market research sector to help guide those who have recently joined the sector.

    We hope you enjoy the episode.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

  • On this is Now that’s Significant. Host Michael Howard is joined once again by Febronia Ruocco…Strategic Insights Professional and newly certified Executive Coach. Febronia has led insights for notable food and drink and OTC brands like Cadbury-Schweppes; Diageo; Heineken; Carlsberg; Twinings; Heinz and GSK.

    Febronia brings her expertise to the fore in this episode, with a focus on the challenges facing market researchers in both client and agency environments.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

  • This episode of Now that’s Significant has host Michael Howard joined today Kerry Hecht, a lifelong market researcher and the CEO and founder of 10k Humans and 10k Ecosystem. 10k Humans is a qualitative & quantitative market research agency offering support services and full-service consulting. The 10k Ecosystem is a collective of companies and offerings that complement each other to provide a custom experience to its clients. It's fair to say that Kerry has seen it all when it comes to market research. And that's why she's so passionate that we need to lift the quality of participants and also the survey experiences we're crafting - positive and negative things alike concerning what we're doing or not doing. And there's never been a more important time to focus on this either, especially with AI beckoning at our doors.

    But AI shouldn't be seen as a negative, far from it. The market research industry should no doubt be using it to craft better surveys, discover more complex insights, and to cut down on some of the manual processes we take as table stakes for now.

    In light of this, we need to carefully consider how databases are being built as well, ensuring they're fit-for-purpose.

    We hope you enjoy the show.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

  • Host today Michael Howard was joined on Now that’s Significant by Tchicaya Brooks, the Founder and CEO of TRIBE Insights, who is passionate about providing groundbreaking research to make good business decisions and policy recommendations on how to remedy experience disparities in the Black community.

    With almost 30 years of experience as an Applied Psychologist in corporate and government settings, Tchicaya has an extensive background in psychometrics, advanced analytics, and survey-based research, empowering TRIBE to offer unparalleled insights for business decisions.

    The main topic that Tchicaya and Michael discussed was the future of work, and how market researchers can use a combination of insights and psychology to help keep humans at the heart of all that organizations do.

    Since the pandemic clearly, how we work, where we work, and how we innovate have all changed.

    Technology has been crucial in helping brands scale their ability understand people. It's therefore essential that organizations embrace technology so they can relevantly communicate and engage with both employees and consumers.

    It's for this very point that will ensure that market researchers will continue to play key roles in their organizations, as long as they keep providing that understanding and insight to stakeholders within their sphere.

    We hope you enjoy the episode.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

  • There’s always something new that’s on the horizon. The challenge for market researchers, and this isn’t something new, is how can we adapt to ensure we continue to deliver understanding and insight to those who need to act on it.

    On this episode of Now that’s Significant, host, Michael Howard, Head of Marketing at Infotools was joined by Aarti Bhaskaran the Global Head of Research and Insights at Snap A.K.A. Snapchat.

    Aarti and Michael discuss how organizations need to embrace new research methodologies and approaches, especially when creating experiences in the new formats, channels, and innovations that are now available to us.

    They discussed some examples of how brands are using augmented reality to engage and delight customers.

    We hope you enjoy the episode.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

  • In today’s day and age, data privacy and security are just as important as insights themselves. Arguably more so. A bad insight may reduce the performance of one particular campaign or result in a product or service that misses the mark. Bad data security on the other hand. That can result in significant financial loss for the business, and worse, their customers.

    Host today of Now that’s Significant Michael Howard, is joined by Monica Bush, the Vice President of Information Security and Chief Information Security Officer at Tango. Tango are a leading incentives and payments company specializing in payment and reward-delivery technology.

    Monica plays a role in overseeing the company's information security, reporting directly to the CTO. With over two decades of IT experience across various industry sectors, Monica has a strong background in developing corporate and product security programs.

    On the episode...

    Monica was truly energized to explore the intersections of information security, privacy, and market research. She set out to guide listeners through a thought-provoking journey, drawing parallels between the protections during the lifecycle and flow of data used in marketing research and something as ubiquitous as the lifetime cost of plastic disposal. And really asking ourselves the question “What is the true obligation of protecting data throughout its entire lifecycle of use?” This concept, often referred to as protection or defense in depth, is crucial in our digital age. It's not just about safeguarding data at one point of use but ensuring its confidentiality and integrity every step of the way.

    Everyone’s talking about data security and privacy in market research, and it is a critical theme. Information security, which is my particular area of expertise, is a big part of that.

    We hope you enjoy the episode.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

  • Kendra Speed, the Director of Consumer Market Research at LinkedIn, joined us on the show to talk about brand density, how LinkedIn are using it internally, and how brands can utilize it as well.

    We talk about the origins of brand density, its definition, and the role of associations, and how the number of and strength of connectedness lead to a higher market share.

    Kendra also shares her experience has been with measuring brand strength in context of the broader marketplace, along with some of the challenges she's seen organizations face.

    We hope you enjoy this episode.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

    Feel free to check out our platform and services at www.infotools.com

  • Generation Alpha. Are you paying attention to them? The team at Cassandra are. So much so that Kathy Sheehan, SVP was happy to come onto the Now that's Significant podcast to talk about them, alongside the latest release of the on-going The Cassandra Report.

    Host Michael Howard, the Head of Marketing at Infotools virtually sat down with Kathy to discuss trendsetting young consumers and what some of the initial insights are that are coming out of the newest generation.

    Michael and Kathy touched on:

    - The motivation behind The Cassandra Report

    - Unexpected findings from the latest release

    - Behavior and usage of social media compared to others

    - And how technology has made it possible for such a study to be conducted.

    We hope you enjoy the episode.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

    Feel free to check out our platform and services at www.infotools.com

  • AI has stolen headlines across the global business community. However, market researchers need to think of it as more than just a chat tool. In this episode of Now that’s Significant – a market research podcast, host Michael Howard, the Head of Marketing at Infotools, talks to Chris Robson, a visionary AI and data scientist, and is in fact the Senior Director – Global Data Science at Human8.

    Chris came on the show to discuss the importance of looking beyond AI as a chat tool and provide ways to implement it into your business to remain competitive in the industry. Since AI has taken every industry by storm, organizations should look beyond the original excitement of using AI for its chat capabilities with ChatGPT and see how AI can help improve the company as a whole.

    Chris and Michael also touched on some advice as to how companies in the insights industry can start implementing AI into their workflow systems to stay on top of industry trends that are essential from a competitive standpoint.

    AI has been more active and present in the commercial sector for longer than many give it credit for, with far more experience in 'non-chat' activities, which is one reason why the theme of this episode is so relevant. It's only that GenAI has captured the attention of the masses.

    We hope you enjoy the show.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

    Feel free to check out our platform and services at www.infotools.com

  • On this episode of Now that's Significant, we talk transformative text analytics that transforms market research. Host Michael Howard, the Head of Marketing at Infotools, is joined by Tovah Paglaro, Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer at Fathom That.

    Fathom is an organization who seeks to be the most trusted text analytics software, to drive empathetic decision making based on open-ended listening, and become the new standard for employee, customer & public opinion research.

    In this episode, we dive into:

    - Why text analytics will play a big role in Market Research, with some background into the story behind Fathom.

    - The main kinds of problems that Fathom helps insights teams to overcome.

    - The general feeling that market researchers have towards text analytics.

    - The potential causes of those who are more skeptical to adopt new technology.

    - And what is potentially needed to help people see the value and use newer technologies like next-generation text analytics platforms.

    We hope you enjoy the show.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

    Feel free to check out our platform and services at www.infotools.com

  • This latest episode of Now that’s Significant, a Market Research Podcast has host Michael Howard, the head of marketing at Infotools, interviewing Jodi McGee, Co-Founder and Chief Insights Officer of Inquisitive Insights, a women-owned business that performs qualitative research for consumer brands.

    Inquisitive works with curious leaders and their trusted agency partners to explore preferences, attitudes, motivations, and behaviors. For much of her career, she has used data to build strategic communication plans and programming and offered counsel to senior leaders at growth companies. Jodi earned a Marketing degree from Georgetown University, received her certification in Marketing Research from UC Davis and studied abroad at the Universidad de Autonoma in Madrid, Spain.

    During the episode, Micheal and Jodi discuss the role that market research plays in building trust in a brand, which is an essential part in it becoming successful.

    Jodi has seen plenty of examples to know that trust is perhaps the greatest predictor of brand engagement. She stressed that this is something that can't be manufactured internally, it's something that is earned.

    Through Inquisitive Insights' framework, they help organizations build trust through authenticity, capability, and empathy.

    Jodi loves when her research answers questions, then creates new questions for her clients, helping to dive even deeper into the minds and lives of consumers.

    We hope you enjoy the show.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

    Feel free to check out our platform and services at www.infotools.com

  • On this latest episode of Now that’s significant, a Market Research Podcast host Michael Howard, the head of marketing at Infotools was joined by Sean McDade, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of PeopleMetrics. PeopleMetrics is a full-service market research firm focused on customer experience and custom research panels. Sean is a best-selling author and entrepreneur with 20 plus years of experience in the market research industry. Sean’s first book, Listen or Die, shares 40 lessons to get the very most out of customer feedback. Sean’s second book, Pharma Customer Experience, dives into the experiences patients have with Pharma, and what those in the Pharma space can do to improve these experiences. A third book titled “The Psychology of Physician CX” looks at the relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical companies in this post-covid world. This book will be released in April, 2024.

    Sean joined us to discuss the importance of custom research panels in the market research world.

    He covers the key factors that make for successful custom panels, including how to keep people engaged, and extracting long-term value from them.

    Sean also shared with us some interesting points from his book Listen or Die, which he co-authored with his colleague Richard Vanderveer.

    We hope you enjoy this episode.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

    Feel free to check out our platform and services at www.infotools.com

  • On this latest episode of Now that’s significant, a Market Research Podcast, host, Michael Howard, the head of marketing at Infotools speaks to Pierre Dubosc, Managing Director of Semantiweb North America.

    Before joining Semantiweb seven years ago, Pierre worked client-side, first as a brand manager and then moved into consumer insights, which opened up the opportunity to conduct both traditional quantitative and qualitative marketing research.

    In this episode, Pierre and Michael discuss how some of the best advances and moments in our insights careers come when we are open to change. This is an open acknowledgement that doing things the way we've always done them won't guarantee us the same outcomes as we've always achieved.

    One thing that comes out clear in this podcast is the role in which market researchers bridge the gap between consumers and organizations, in essence becoming the voice of the consumer. And it's modern tools like Semantiweb and Harmoni that are helping bring this to life.

    We hope you enjoy the show.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

    Feel free to check out our platform and services at www.infotools.com

  • On this latest episode of Now that’s Significant, a Market Research Podcast, host Michael Howard (the head of marketing at Infotools) joined by Tricia Houston, COO and Founder of The ExperienceBuilt Group.

    Tricia, a travel-worn experiential marketer, classically trained market researcher, and challenger of the status-quo, founded The ExperienceBuilt Group (EBG) to help organizations create experiences worth repeating. Under Tricia's leadership, the team at EBG helps organizations imagine new solutions, improve current ones, and implement programs to close experience gaps (B2B & B2C).

    On the episode, Tricia and Michael discussed a market researcher's ability to connect, to be connectors, to help organizations discover the right key that opens the right lock at the right time.

    Three ways that insights teams can help their organizations connect are helping stakeholders to think like customers and employees, perfect people relationships and removing friction, and aligning everyone to a forward facing plan that ignites people into action.

    We talked about the need to avoid creating yet another "Grey SUV" - the trap people often fall into when creating new initiatives, which is following the pack rather than delivering new experiences, products, or services that are unique and worth repeating.

    There's plenty more in there too. So we hope you enjoy the show.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

    Feel free to check out our platform and services at www.infotools.com

  • Joel Rubinson (President and founder of Rubinson Partners, a marketing and research consulting firm for a brave new world) joined Michael Howard (Head of Marketing at Infotools) on this episode of Now that's Significant.

    Joel, who also happens to be an accomplished blues harmonicist, joined us on the show to discuss how insights teams can produce 'nutritious' insights programs that sustainably deliver value for their organizations and customers alike.

    A key part of this, as you'll find out, is around what Joel talks about when mentioning "Finding the prediction in your insight, finding the growth strategy in your prediction".

    Joel also discusses two innovative projects that he's been working on that seeks to combine multiple data sets, vendors, ad-serving platforms, and so forth.

    We hope you enjoy the episode.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

    Feel free to check out our platform and services at www.infotools.com

  • On this latest episode of Now that’s Significant, a Market Research Podcast. Host, Michael Howard, the head of marketing at Infotools was joined by Steven Mushkin, CEO and founder of Latitude Research and creator of the video intelligence platform Lumiere. Lumiere provides strategic and tactical guidance for major media and technology companies domestically and internationally, with subject area expertise in advertising diagnostics and effectiveness, brand communications, content strategy and digital innovation. Clients include Amazon, Disney, Google, Microsoft, NBCU, Paramount, Roku and Springhill.

    Steve discusses his current area of focus, the growing intersection of visual media with new technologies, and on the resulting possibilities for innovative entertainment and information experiences.

    We talked about the future of video experiences, how the space is evolving, and how Latitude didn’t intentionally start out in advertising experience and effectiveness.

    We hope you enjoy the show.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

    Feel free to check out our platform and services at www.infotools.com

  • On this episode of Now that’s Significant, a Market Research Podcast host Michael Howard (the Head of Marketing at Infotools) was joined by Oscar Carlsson, Chief Innovation Officer at Cint.

    Cint is a market research technology company that provides innovative solutions for businesses to conduct research quickly and efficiently. Oscar oversees innovation in new business areas as well as Cint’s presales and sales engineering team and is involved in M&A activities and thought leadership. He also focuses on delivering the highest data quality and mitigating fraud in the Industry.

    In this episode, we discussed the role and usage of AI in the workplace, with a particuar focus on those in the insights industry.

    The two main talking points were around its usage, which frighteningly, is often more prevalent than managers may realize.

    The second was around its use in the research world and how it is affecting data quality and fraud.

    As always, employees need to be careful of the outputs it provides, checking them like you would a junior employee.

    We hope you enjoy the show.

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    Infotools Harmoni is a fit-for-purpose market research analysis, visualization, and reporting platform that gives the world’s leading brands the tools they need to better understand their consumers, customers, organization, and market.

    Established in 1990, we work with some of the world’s top brands around the world, including Coca-Cola, Orange, Samsung, and Mondelēz.

    Our powerful cloud-based platform, Harmoni, is purpose-built for market research. From data processing to investigation, dashboards to collaboration, Harmoni is a true "data-to-decision-making" solution for in-house corporate insights teams and agencies.

    While we don't facilitate market research surveys, we make it easy for to find and share compelling insights that go over-and-above what stakeholders want, inspiring them to act decisively.

    One of the most powerful features of Harmoni is Discover is a time-tested, time-saving, and investigative approach to data analysis. Using automated analyses to reveal patterns and trends, Discover minimizes potential research bias by removing the need for requesting and manually analyzing scores of cumbersome crosstabs – often seeing what you can’t.

    Discover helps you easily find what differentiates groups that matter to you, uncover what makes them unique, and deliver data points that are interesting, relevant, and statistically significant, plus see things others can’t. Add to all this an impending GenAI feature, and you have an extremely powerful, future-proofed tool.

    Feel free to check out our platform and services at www.infotools.com