“We have relied too heavily on the same respondents for too long, and we need to embrace innovative and new ways to understand people.” – Dan Foreman, Past President of European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR) Mexico City and Toronto, April 14, 2015 − Can decision-makers trust surveys that rely on frequent survey-takers […]
By Neil Seeman for Quirk’s Marketing Research Review At the time of writing, there are roughly 500,000 hits on Google to the search string “market research” and “disruptive.” There are hundreds of company-sponsored blog posts about supposedly disruptive trends in market research, notably the hackneyed Silicon Valley slogan SoLoMo (social local mobile), online communities, big data, neuroscience or text analytics. Depending […]
Read RIWI Founder Neil Seeman’s column in VentureBeat on what tech entrepreneurs and VCs can learn from Freud.
Who in the world are we talking to? Why and how are RIWI’s respondents characteristically different from traditional survey takers? In this year’s GRIT Consumer Participation in Research report, set for release in April, RIWI compares fresh and frequent respondents by various attributes. With over 50,000 respondents from 56 countries, we breakdown the data by […]
RIWI Founder Neil Seeman celebrates the new era of micro-multinationals like RIWI in his essay in VentureBeat. Image via http://goo.gl/qPI1ZY
By Bob Seeman At the annual Wall Street Journal invitation-only CIO Network Conference yesterday in San Diego, Richard Bejtlich, Chief Security Strategist of FireEye and Shuman Ghosemajumder of Shape Security discussed what have we learned about cybersecurity from hacks into Sony, Target and the federal government. In response to the Sony hack, Bejtlich became an […]
By Bob Seeman (This conference is an annual invitation-only Wall Street Journal CIO Network in San Diego.) Today, J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., known for first sequencing the entire DNA code of a human, gave a speech entitled “Are we all just software?” The talk took place at the annual invitation-only Wall Street Journal CIO Network […]
By Bob Seeman Today, I had the great privilege of attending, with business leaders from all over the globe, a ‘fireside chat’ with Dr. Condoleezza Rice, the former national security adviser and Secretary of State. The discussion started with Al-Qaida. Dr. Rice explained that, “We were accustomed with Al-Qaida from a very small number of […]
By Bob Seeman (This conference is a private event and invitations are for J.P. Morgan clients only.) I am at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco today where Jamie Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan spoke about the global economy and cyber security. He spoke first about his own recent treatment for cancer and […]
By Neil Seeman and Bob Seeman | Originally posted in Canada’s National Post There has been much consternation among privacy samurais and free expression absolutists about the European judicial ruling requiring Google to remove information about individuals who wish that information to be “forgotten.” Some say it is an infringement of freedom of speech and […]
By John R. Graham | Originally posted in Forbes Remember Ebola? Sure, we still here about it once in a while, but it doesn’t scare us like did earlier in the year. A few months ago, the media had many of us convinced that America would turn into an Ebola-ridden wasteland. Although no Ebola outbreak […]
By Neil Seeman and co-authored by Bob Seeman | Originally posted in the Huffington Post Pity Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment. An anonymous group calling itself Guardians of Peace exposed her thousands of emails to the world. Ms. Pascal is a member of a large club of senior executives, many of whom are […]
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