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Online Focus Groups As Effective As In-Person

The Horizons Tracker

Research from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston suggests that online focus groups are an effective way to gather data on even the hardest to reach constituents. ” Representative sample. . ” Representative sample. The results disabuse these concerns, however.

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People With Disabilities Still Discriminated Against In Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

Denied care The researchers conducted focus groups with a representative sample of physicians. The groups revealed that there was a clear bias towards people with disabilities, with a significant number of physicians saying that they had made a strategic choice to deny people with disabilities access to care.

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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one. Back then, they would run focus groups to see what customers liked/didn''t like about the product and would check competitors that began to do well. Fast forward to today.

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The Five Cs of Opportunity Identification

Harvard Business Review

can be a powerful way to enable innovation, because it forces you to go beyond superficial demographic markers that correlate with purchase and use to zero in on frustrations and desires that motivate purchase and use. It is a simple way to visualize opportunities for innovation. Circumstance. Constraints. Compensating behaviors.

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The Hidden Power of Mundane Ideas

Harvard Business Review

So many factors — not the least of which include testing a larger, more diverse sample of people — contribute to the accuracy of any study. The same holds true for consumer focus groups, innovation contests, and more recently the use of social media sites to solicit feedback from consumers. Of course not.

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Three Ways to Succeed by Breaking Convention

Harvard Business Review

For instance, in our recent Babson Executive Education sample of 445 companies, more than three-quarters (77%) admit that breaking convention is not their strong suit. However, managers and focus groups liked a separate scented additive compound that came out of this research stream. Most aren't that good.

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To Get More Out of Social Media, Think Like an Anthropologist

Harvard Business Review

Although insights from social listening can and should drive corporate strategy and innovation, these are more likely trapped inside the marketing and service departments that “own” them. Consider the tenet of “adequate sample sizes” and its antithesis online.

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