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Customer Insight Tools: Turning Insight Into Effective Marketing Strategies

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Upcoming Sessions
  March 7-10, 2010
$ 5,900
  September 26-29, 2010
$ 5,900
   
Key Benefits
During this program, you will learn to:
Understand the importance of a customer insight-driven business strategy
Develop an insightful relationship with customers by understanding their rational and emotional needs 
Understand the role of ethnography in developing new customer insights
Understand when you should trust a marketing research study and when you should be cautious
Obtain more accurate forecasts for new products
Gain maximum value from your market research expenditures
 
Bob Schieffer© Nathan Mandell
Professor Robert Schieffer
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Uncovering insights about your customers is essential for developing products and services that deliver value to the customer and generate profit for your organization. But while companies spend millions of dollars on expensive market research, how much actionable customer insight is actually being created? How do you unlock insight-- and value--from the customer information gathered?

For companies in both B-to-B and B-to-C environments, this program will inspire users of market research to ask the right questions and make the right decisions in order to gain sustainable competitive advantages.

In a collaborative learning environment, this program provides a thorough understanding of how the right blend of tools can be used to gain powerful, valid insights into customer needs and perceptions. Building a marketing strategy based upon deep customer insight can give a firm a powerful competitive advantage.  

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Program Content

Creating a Customer Insight-Driven Organization

No Marketing Research Is Better Than Bad Marketing Research

Understanding Consumers

Understanding B-to-B Customers

Quantitative Tools

Experimentation In Marketing and Test Marketing


Format
Discussion, case analysis, and exercises facilitate participation and involvement in the seminar. In the evenings, participants work in study groups to prepare for the next day's case analyses.

Who Should Attend
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