Instagram’s popularity amongst Japanese businesses looking to give themselves an online presence is growing. We examined the opportunities the platform is bringing to Japan’s Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMBs) among different target audiences – SMBs in domestic tourism, young entrepreneurs and women working in SMBs.
In an industry ruled by competition, setting key performance indicators (KPIs) and organizing audits are often a store manager’s first steps towards improvement. By understanding customer patterns, retailers can improve the efficiency of their processes in order to increase sales, traffic, and overall profitability.
Text analytics is now an established component of many market research programmes. However, as its popularity has increased, so have expectations of what it can deliver. Here, Fiona Moss provides five ground rules to follow to ensure more success in using text analytics tools.
Virtual Reality (VR) technology has been around for at least a decade and you could say it’s clearly gone from sci-fi to sci-fact. However, it’s still seen as a new technology and has not hit mass adoption; so what has gone wrong?
Our latest analysis of corporate reputation management across the world assesses when reputation turbulence becomes a crisis; managing global-v-local reputations; the spread of 'techlash'; the role of the CEO in external communications; as well as how Council members view trust in business; the use of social media in corporate communications; the importance of purpose and CSR; and the role of employees in building reputation strength.
Across the world, and often within each country, perceptions of nationality range from very restrictive to all-inclusive. Ipsos found that various conceptions of nationality can be categorized into six types. We explore the six segments, and how they differ in key countries.
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