I’ve been helping companies better understand their customers and make better decisions for longer than I care to admit. More than 20 years of that time was spent leading insights, customer experience, and strategy teams at Fortune 500 insurance companies. Though I didn’t grow up dreaming of someday helping develop new insurance products or designing …
Read MoreI love that lead-in quote and not simply because I’ve been a vinyl record enthusiast and collector since a guy named Reagan lived in the White House. I also love it because I’m a HI (Human Insight) enthusiast and embracing life’s surface noise is critical in the pursuit of human insight. Given the current state …
Read MoreAn insight community is a valuable research tool that virtually brings together a select group of your customers, prospects, or key stakeholders, allowing you to regularly engage with them and gather valuable feedback and deep insights. With an insight community you can better understand your audience, identify their needs and preferences, and ultimately make more informed decisions to help drive your business forward.
Read MoreInsights Communities are an effective and affordable way for utility providers to track key performance indicators. Do you need to regularly answer questions like these: Questions like these or closely related ones are often critical for utility companies to answer. Regularly tracking the metrics that result from these types of questions is the key to …
Read MoreThe recent COVID-19 pandemic has not only shifted our personal lives but packed up our corporate life in a laptop bag and brought it home to our kitchen table. During this time, employees were doing their best to make a comfortable workspace, whilst some even multi-tasked as homeschool teachers. Managers checked in via Microsoft Teams …
Read MoreOverview: How to Maximize the Value of your Online Insight Community Online Insight Communities (MROCs) are now used by the majority of the Fortune 1,000. But is your insight community maximized for cost effectiveness? With the amazing research tools that can be seamlessly integrated into your MROC, the opportunity to transfer expensive ad hoc work …
Read MoreIt’s understood that an online community can help you better understand your customers. Through a variety of research methodologies available within a customer insights platform, you can facilitate an ongoing feedback loop with your target audience. What’s critical to note, though, is that your target audience can be any group – including employees. The benefits …
Read MoreThe prevailing “wisdom” for well over a hundred years is that the crowd is mad. However, more recently, author James Surowiecki countered with his book, The Wisdom of Crowds. So what is it, is the crowd wise or mad? Anyone who has tried to buy toilet paper in the last two weeks will come to …
Read MoreHow beneficial something will be to you all depends on how well you set yourself up to derive those benefits. Market research is no different. There are multiple advantages associated with taking your studies to the internet. Although the advantages to adding online communities to your company’s market research repertoire are numerous, here are four …
Read MoreIn today’s business climate, faster is better. If you wait too long to respond to a customer’s inquiry or address their grievance, you’ll be reading about it on social media before you’ve even had a chance to compose your reply. If you’re pursuing product development with an ambiguous path, then be prepared. Someone may launch …
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