Can You Run Your Own Focus Group?
For this activity students will run their own focus groups, using a group discussion guide, which reviews consumer behavior in the fast food market.
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Research and MIS
Running a Focus Group
In this exercise, students run focus groups to understand the importance of getting beyond “top-level” answers and to gather some real insights into the behavior of the target market.
Running a Focus Group Review the Teaching Activity
What is the Most Appropriate Research Design?
In this task, students simply need to match the approach to market testing a new product to the firm most likely to conduct it. The types of research are listed first, followed by the type of firm.
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Which Research Design to Use?
In this activity, students need to consider the information challenges facing Pizza Hut and identify the most suitable market research or market information approach they should use to help gather information.
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Defining the Market Research Problem
This firm is looking to undertake some market research, but they first need to define the research problem – can your students help them?
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Should We Conduct Market Research (Test Marketing)?
In this activity, students will review the discussion/comments from a new product project team meeting, where the participants argue for/against the merits of conducting test marketing prior to a full launch.
Should We Conduct Market Research (Test Marketing)? Review the Teaching Activity
Assessing the Impact of Environmental Change
The student task is to review survey results of attitudes towards moving to a cashless society and identify how retailers will be able to benefit from this emerging opportunity.
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