This week on Pharma Research VIDEO Report:
1) Experts agree the promise of comparative effectiveness research is having very little impact on healthcare decision making. 2) Dr. David Bates researched Big Data algorithms that he says can positively impact the expenditures on low-hanging fruit with in-patients. 3) The FDA must make a decision on whether or not to continue Mini-Sentinel, a program that queries 18 health plan and insurance partners about patient records that can show adverse events.
Big Share draws mktg & finance together; How CMOs should change (RBDR–7/22/14)
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Making news on RBDR today: 1) MarketShare co-founder and CEO Wes Nichols notes four prominent U.S. corporations who prove his contention that sharing Big Data is driving marketing and finance departments together. 2) A Vivaldi Partners Group study of 50 CMOS on three continents concludes that the Chief Marketing Officer role needs to back off and allow talented individuals working in departments underneath them to play their trade and exert their expert influence.
Germany’s World Cup Big Data edge; 27 DMAs band together into Global DMA (RBDR–7/16/2014)
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Today: 1) Germany’s winning World Cup squad seems to have an edge, a Big Data edge, provided by the “Match Insights” tool which delivered player and team metrics/tendencies. 2) 27 direct marketing associations from all over the world have banded together to form the Global Direct Marketing Association. 3) The UK’s Marketing Research Association has launched a sugging and frugging hotline that can be used by organization and individuals to report that sort of abusive behavior.
IBM commits $100M to China analytics; Rogers Comm’s MR re NHL (RBDR–7/10/14)
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Today on RBDR: 1) IBM is making a $100 million commitment to fund Big Data & Analytics training and expertise at100 Chinese universities, 30 undergraduate programs and 5 Centers of Excellence. 2) Rogers Communications’ summer 2014 marketing plan for its Sportchannel, which will carry National Hockey League games this fall, is built around a market research study into how fans relate to the NHL. 3) Will Leach, who just founded Triggerpoint Behavioral Research & Design, has an interesting point of view about how MR agencies need to evolve their deliverables.
iModerate’s qual tracking; Big Data: $30B market; Google Glass’ software enabler (RBDR—6/19/2014)
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Today:
1) iModerate introduces another new workable MR tool, a qualitative tracking technique featuring text analytic software. 2) Google Executive Chairman says 2014 will herald the new era of Big Data and machine intelligence. 3) The software provider that equips the biggest market research companies that want to empower Google Glass to become a MR force speaks to RBDR.
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