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Ghost kitchens : the next disruption in the restaurant industry?
By Pierre-Nicolas Schwab •
I recently reflected on Deliveroo's and Uber's ghost kitchens which have appeared in various cities (read here and there) of the US and in London (read this article in the Guardian). Those ghost kitchen make perfect economic sense : margins…
New in 2018: step-by-step market research guide for all
Happy new year everybody ! What an amazing year 2017 has been for us. We feel blessed to have carried out so many market research and Big Data projects last year : banking, retail, media, FMCG, luxury, IT, indusrail goods,…
Marketing research reveals free apps are bad for business
A recent marketing research published in the Journal of Marketing reveals that offering a free version of an app reduces the speed of adoption of the paying version of the same app. In other words, you will reduce the odds…
market research : how do Europeans pay ?
By Pierre-Nicolas Schwab •
My mother-in-law is Italian. She hardly make two payments a year with her credit card. On my way to the University of Mainz a few weeks ago, I met a 64-year old taxi driver of Turkish origin who prouded himself not to…
Market research : 190000 users surveyed on their connected future
By Pierre-Nicolas Schwab •
The Mozilla foundation released the results of a worldwide market research on digital lives. The survey was entitled "How connected are you?" and gathered answers from pretty much all countries around the world. In today's post I chose to focus…
Tips and tricks : using observation as a market research tool
By Pierre-Nicolas Schwab •
In our latest article we dealt with an experiment carried out by the Virginia Tech University that used innovative observation techniques to study human behaviors when faced with self-driving cars. Today we want to dig a little bit more on…
Market research : how to study reactions to autonomous vehicles
By Pierre-Nicolas Schwab •
This is one of the most difficult type of projet market research professionals may face: investigate consumers' behaviors in a situation that doesn't exist yet. In such situations ethnography (a qualitative market research technique) may be the right methodology to go for.…