Bob Lederer is the President and Publisher of RFL Communications, Inc. Serving the Market Research industry for over 20 years by providing news, insights and commentary, Bob continues to be one of the most prominent voices in the research business, providing a valuable perspective of insight in the multiple mediums he oversees. He is currently looking for opportunities to participate on company boards.
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Today: Martina Olbertova’s latest blog emphasizes that market research can not hope to implement all the available and promising new tools and techniques until the industry finds a way to overcome five major myths about its functioning. (http://rwconnect.esomar.org/market-research-debunked/)
Pharma Research VIDEO Report is sponsored by the Toluna Healthcare Practice, offering highly engaged physicians, health professionals and ailment sufferers for global research using cutting-edge methodologies, sophisticated, yet easy-to-use analytic tools and specialized products including Pharmacy Intercept, dedicated communities, patient record studies and more.
Toluna Healthcare Practice is recommending everyone read this Kaiser Family Foundation release for its emphasis on the growing importance of patients in industry research:
This week on PRVR: 1) The Boston Globe warns about the seriousness and dangers from stolen patient records. 2) Dick Vanderveer’s September 11 blog mentions FitBit’s legal right to sell data the device collects. 3) Federal regulators have decided to reverse course and begin making public records of eight hospital patient mistakes. 4) The Apple Watch introduction paid scant attention to healthcare. 5) India’s poor patent laws with Rx drugs are severely limiting the number of new drugs being made available there. 6) Big Data has brought at least four important benefits for healthcare.
Sponsored by Nuance, offering multi-language verbatim coding services to help companies quantify the meaning of open-ended answers. Nuance, a Decision Analyst company.
Today: 1) All the hullabaloo about Big Data does not mean its full-scale use threatens market research. Business2Community.com’s Andrew Dalglish points to four things MR does not need to worry about from Big data. 2) MindSpark Lab Research International LLC’s Nikki Lavoie shares her impressions about the best presentations made at the 67th Annual ESOMAR Congress.
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Today on RBDR: 1) B2B companies are, bizarrely, misusing a lot of their available insights in trying to do business with their customers. 2) A questionnaire with users of text analytics shows a one top-heavy use of the information. 3) Google public meetings throughout Europe interact with consumers about compliance with EU court mandates about privacy.
RBDR is sponsored by Socratic Technologies, whose proprietary tools and methodologies handle marketing complexities so the you can make more confident business decisions.
Visit http://www.sotech.com for a glimpse at research ingenuity, quality and consistency.
Today on RBDR: 1) Inside Research Editor Larry Gold has announced that the September 2014 issue, mailed Friday September 5, is the publication’s last. 2) ESOMAR releases its 2013 global MR revenue report. 3) Businesses are looking for and hiring marketers with IT understanding to fill the Chief Marketing Technologist role. 4) Another career market researcher is seeking to become Mayor in his town, Larry King Solomon in Union, OH.
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