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Led by some of the biggest global marketers, consultants, and research agencies, the ARF Research Transformation Super-Council is committed to developing the roadmap for how organizations can transform to this new model and culture.

The decision before the decision might be the more important one for marketers. Marketers need to learn about the opportunities inherent in influencing what are called second-order decision strategies.

A behavioral economist might offer, “It’s not your survey that’s a delicate instrument, it’s the human mind!” The challenge to producing consistent and reliable marketing research data goes well beyond sample representativeness. Marketing researchers need to think more like Behavioral Economists.

Marketers must use new approaches and adopt a new corporate culture to become fast-learning organizations, or they will find their opportunities in the new normal defined by a future that is not of their own making.

The word “consumer” is marketing-ese for slicing off that part of daily living that relates to what you can sell someone and throwing away the rest. When you study consumers you get incremental ideas; when you study humans you get breakthroughs.

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