Running a Focus Group
In this exercise, students run focus groups to understand the importance of getting beyond “top-level” answers and to gather some real insights into the behavior of the target market.
In this exercise, students run focus groups to understand the importance of getting beyond “top-level” answers and to gather some real insights into the behavior of the target market.
In this task, students simply need to match the approach to market testing a new product to the firm most likely to conduct it. The types of research are listed first, followed by the type of firm.
In this activity, students need to consider the information challenges facing Pizza Hut and identify the most suitable market research or market information approach they should use to help gather information.
This firm is looking to undertake some market research, but they first need to define the research problem – can your students help them?
In this activity, students will review the discussion/comments from a new product project team meeting, where the participants argue for/against the merits of conducting test marketing prior to a full launch.
The student task is to review survey results of attitudes towards moving to a cashless society and identify how retailers will be able to benefit from this emerging opportunity.