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Thinking time

June 2nd, 2009 by Patrick

‘Added value’ is close to becoming a research cliché, if indeed it hasn’t already. At the BIG Conference this year, for instance, there was an emphasis on maximising and integrating data, on having the ability to connect different pieces of evidence and present them as a whole. However, very few of these presentations seemed to [...]

Let me tell you a story

May 26th, 2009 by Patrick

“Storytelling in business is going through a renaissance,” says Kevin Murray, an expert in strategic communications. And this really does seem to be true. In the last few years, there seems to have been a surge in the demand for storytelling and, importantly, storytellers.
 
Everyone, from The Harvard Business Review through to NASA, has dedicated time [...]

In my opinion…

May 22nd, 2009 by Patrick

It might seem faintly ironic, or one could even stretch to hypocritical, that this first blog entry should be a cautious review of how the formation of opinions is changing with the rise of social networking – especially, in my opinion, Twitter – and what this means for Market Research.
 
The fact that there are now [...]

DVL Smith – new blog

February 11th, 2009 by admin

Welcome to the new DVL Smith blog.

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