Reactions & Foresights
As the President of the Market Research Council (June 2019-June 2020), I decided to dig into its history. The strong message I’ve gotten is that the only consistent in Market Research is change....
ESOMAR World Congress 2019: TRANSFORMATION
I started off my career as a market analyst in the tech sector in the early 90’s. At the time, the tech industry was a very different and siloed subculture and a subsection of the...
Framing thinking … 6 books that made a difference
Age.Experience. Lot’s of stories. You get to a point in life when these three inevitably mean people start asking for advice. Maybe for the wrong reasons, maybe just to be nice, maybe because they are...
Celebrating the 20th edition of ESOMAR Asia Pacific
The overarching theme of the ESOMAR Asia Pacific conference in Macao last week was celebration, celebration across a number of areas....
Which is Better? Chicken or Egg? Stories of data illiteracy
Today I had a conversation that forced me to think again about a subject on which I already had pretty strong views. For some time now, commentators, pundits, bloggers and other associated opinion providers have...
Asia Pacific 2019: Celebrating Impact!
The chances are that when you’re reading this, I will be already winging my way out to Singapore to start my annual tour of Asian markets to coincide with ESOMAR’s Asia Pacific Conference, celebrating the...