At a time when consumers' wants and needs are changing quicker than ever, brands need to quickly deliver successful new products, services, campaigns and propositions to deliver real growth. Heres how they are doing it in an agile (faster,..
Marketers and branding professionals have an ongoing need to understand how people perceive their brand, products and services; what their attitudes and feelings towards them are, and how they are positioned in the context of a continually..
As disruptive technology businesses sweep through sectors like a game of tech-enabled dominoes, we've seen first-hand the transformative role that research and human insight is playing in these evolutionary times. Demand for change is being..
The truth is easy to work with, it gives you confidence and helps you make great decisions, especially where your target audience are concerned, right? So, why then, when it comes to researching people, are the two most important truths that..
We lie. Not deliberately. It’s not that we try to deceive, it’s just that we bear poor witness to our own behaviour. If you ask anyone why they did what they did, the answer that comes back won't often be an accurate indication. But here's the..
You’re under pressure.. to do more, with less, to meet deadlines and to get the insight to make the critical decision that will provide the winning-edge for your client. At the current speed of business, insight has never been more important, but..
Media and creative agencies adopted storytelling aeons ago as a means of showing brand consumers that they 'got them' in a nod and a wink kind of way. Since then, culture and the consumer landscape has shifted - vastly. Vague notions of 'who'..
At Further, we think that businesses may be missing a trick when it comes to developing their buyer personas. They’re settling for shallow 2D representations, based on certain assumptions, that could actually be harming their customer acquisition..
Most clients enter into a research project never quite knowing what’s going to come out at the other end, which can make it feel a bit like Russian roulette. What’s more, creating impact with research and insight can be a big challenge. For our..
Further's client success team work with our clients and partners to make sure their market research is a roaring success. Their hard work and approachability have been key factors in attaining an average Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 65 in 2019. To..
If your brand and your role involves dealing with consumers, then you probably understand how qualitative research works. Whilst big data and quantitative testing can highlight what consumers are doing, it takes qualitative exploration to..
Brands and businesses are constantly looking to develop new propositions as they seek to grow and innovate. In times when consumers wants, needs and demands are shifting fast - new business, product, service or brand propositions are an essential..
Leading the Customer Success team here at Further, I get asked a lot by researchers about Online Focus Groups (OFGs). Sure, they have some benefits, but more often than not, researchers can achieve more with their asynchronous cousin, the Online..
On a recent trip to Australia, I met up with Further client Greta Leropoulos who is the Service Design Lead for Foxtel (a media company, who provide a premium pay per view TV service of streamed and live, sport, movies, drama, news and..
In 2019, it can feel like every brand with a budget is running a progressive campaign to tap the equality-hungry hearts of millennials and Gen Z. Empathic, experiential, and (of course) authentic engagement is the conscious marketing of the..
In the age of disruption and customer centricity, traditional retail banking is under serious scrutiny. Fintech has forever changed the way forward-thinking consumers want to bank, along with the way they expect their financial brands to behave...
Most agile development teams are made up of three roles: product owner, scrum master and team member. If you’ve worked with an agile or scrum process, you’re probably familiar with this. But there’s a fourth role that agile teams could benefit..
“Hey Siri—find me the closest coffee shop.” It’s getting hard to remember a time when you couldn’t literally ask your phone to find something for you. Siri, Cortana, Google Assistant and Alexa have changed how we interact with the world, and s..
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast - or so the saying goes. Taking the time to brief a market research supplier properly will save you time and money, no matter how close to a deadline you are. It will make sure your research is feasible and achieves..
