Quirk’s Nov 2014 | MR’s data innovation: working beyond the buzzwords

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 […]

RIWI at IIeX Amsterdam 2015: “Who in the world are we talking to?”

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 […]

Independent Security Expert for Sony: “North Koreans were there”

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 […]

Live from San Diego, Craig Venter: “Are we all just software?”

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 […]

A Fireside Chat with Dr. Condoleezza Rice on Geo-Political Risk

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 […]

RIWI in Canada’s National Post: On the Internet, we should have a right to context, rather than a right to be forgotten

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 […]

RIWI Op-Ed in Huffington Post: The Cyber Security Crisis Must be Confronted

By Neil Seeman and co-authored by Bob Seeman | Originally posted in the Huffington Post Everyone in the technology business knows that many web meet-ups deliver negative value — like getting into discussions about the coolest ‘start-up goatees’ — but at various recent events we have learned that the world is a very dangerous place […]