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Using Market Research Results

Analysis and Metrics, Introductory Concepts, Member Activities, Research and MIS, Strategy and Plans

This mini case is for a hotel chain who have conducted a customer satisfaction survey. Given these research results, what advice can be given?

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Analyzing Campaign Results

Analysis and Metrics, Member Activities, Promotion, Research and MIS, Services/CRM

In this exercise, students are presented with the campaign results from a bank that has tested different promotional tactics. Their task is to interpret the campaign’s results.

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Interpreting Research Results (Concept Test for a New Product)

Analysis and Metrics, Member Activities, New Product Process, Research and MIS

This activity summarizes the results of research into a potential new product – hot chili flavored ice cream. The firm undertook taste-test research to help determine whether they should launch this new product?

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Evaluating a Questionnaire

Discussion Exercises, Member Activities, New Product Process, Research and MIS, Role Plays

For this task, students (with one acting as the interviewer) will identify numerous issues with a poorly designed questionnaire.

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Evaluating the Design of a Questionnaire

Discussion Exercises, Member Activities, Research and MIS, Review Exercises

The student role is to pilot a questionnaire, with their fellow students, and identify the questionnaire’s problems and then suggest ways to improve it.

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Can You Run Your Own Focus Group?

Consumer Behavior, Discussion Exercises, Member Activities, New Product Process, Research and MIS

For this activity students will run their own focus groups, using a group discussion guide, which reviews consumer behavior in the fast food market.

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Running a Focus Group

Member Activities, New Product Process, Research and MIS

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.

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What is the Most Appropriate Research Design?

Member Activities, New Product Process, Research and MIS

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.

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Which Research Design to Use?

Analysis and Metrics, Member Activities, Research and MIS, Review Exercises

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.

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Was McDonald’s Adaptive or Just Lucky?

Discussion Exercises, Marketing Environment, Member Activities, Strategy and Plans

With this exercise, students need to consider whether McDonald’s successfully leveraged the changing factors in the macro-environment, or whether their business operation just happened to be quite suited to this emerging environment?

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