Edward Appleton

Edward Appleton

Director Global Marketing at Happy Thinking People

Edward Appleton is Director Global Marketing with Happy Thinking People, a global qualitative consultancy with offices in Berlin, Munich, Paris, Zurich and Mumbai. Prior to joining the firm for many years he was a clientside Consumer Insights Manager based in Berlin, Germany. A graduate of Oxford University, he has over 20 years research experience, on both client and supplier side ‚Ai Research Manager at Coca-Cola, Group Manager Research at Nestle UK, Insights Manager at Avery Dennison Europe, Insights and Planning Director at Grey Communications Germany were positions that followed his start in research at Mass Observation UK. He blogs regularly at http://researchandreflect.blogspot.de. Edward is bi-cultural English/ German, speaks fluent French.and is a founding Board Member of Mobile Research in the Mobile World (MRMW). Views expressed are his own and in no way represent those of his company.

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What Career Paths Can Market Researchers Aspire To?

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What Career Paths Can Market Researchers Aspire To?

What can Market Research do to attract top talent coming out of top universities? Part of that is providing attractive career paths.

Edward Appleton

Edward Appleton

Director Global Marketing

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Can Researchers Trust Online Access Panel Data?

Research Methodologies

Can Researchers Trust Online Access Panel Data?

12 “real respondents” were asked to give their honest views on market research. What they said was both fascinating and horrifying.

Edward Appleton

Edward Appleton

Director Global Marketing

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Embracing Change In MR – A Year End Perspective

The best way to prepare for change is to assume that what you are currently doing may not last as long as you think.

Edward Appleton

Edward Appleton

Director Global Marketing

Research Methodologies

Mobile Qualitative – How Does It Fit In The Research Toolkit?

Revelation is showing how technology can be used to help enrich and enhance a multi-modal qualitative research design.

Edward Appleton

Edward Appleton

Director Global Marketing

Research Methodologies

Siamack Salari on Market Research And Mobile Self-Ethnography

Mobile self-ethnography is clearly an area with massive potential, but also full of potential biases.

Edward Appleton

Edward Appleton

Director Global Marketing

CEO Series

Harvard Business Review – What do Opinion Leaders Think of Market Research?

Edward Appleton looks at what the Harvard Business Review is saying about the market research industry, and why we should worry.

Edward Appleton

Edward Appleton

Director Global Marketing

Is There a Difference Between Consumer Insights and Market Research?

Insights Industry News

Is There a Difference Between Consumer Insights and Market Research?

Edward Appleton explores the difference between research and insights.

Edward Appleton

Edward Appleton

Director Global Marketing

A Renaissance of Qualitative Research

We’re witnessing not just a renaissance of qualitative research, we’re seeing a transformation.

Edward Appleton

Edward Appleton

Director Global Marketing

CEO Series

Mobile MR and Touchpoint Analysis – Conversation with Fiona Blades, CEO of MESH.

MESH is a relatively new but powerful player in the Research space. The company pioneered the use of mobile in touch-point analysis.

Edward Appleton

Edward Appleton

Director Global Marketing

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