When I joined Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois as CIO, one of the first things I did was bring in a research company to survey how all company leaders viewed the IT department.
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Telefonica Digital Insights has teamed up with market research company GFK to help it develop products in the UK, Brazil and Germany to begin with.
Normally the Microsoft device can only scope body and full mitt movements, but the research company was able to track individual fingers with a Kinect or similar sensor, plus its custom software, allowing a user's hand to become a more finely tuned controller.
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As the CEO of a new-age market research company, I was thrilled to see that their first recommendation was diligent market research.
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Its managers have posted a 15% rise in sales, increased the company's share of the department-store market from 15% to almost 19% (according to Verdict, a retail-research company) and widened its operating margins to almost 16% from 12%.
According to research company ISAE, the scandal surrounding dairy company Parmalat has soured the joy of shopping for many Italians.
The reason for doing so, according to Mauricio Tolmasquim, head of the state-run Energy Research Company (EPE), is to give the government more control over the oil business.
Haefner says it can take awhile to get to know the company itself, but it is important to do research, look back at old projects, and find out what has worked for the company or your team in the past.
Parkway's share price is up about 86% since then, making it the top-performing U.S.-listed REIT over that period, according to financial research company FactSet.
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U.S. consumer electronics retail sales for Black Friday declined 5.6 percent, a steeper than anticipated decline according to market research company The NPD Group.
At this stage of the game, it's fairly apparent that not just CSFB but nearly every bank on Wall Street was giving favorable research coverage to nearly every company it brought public.
Whether by necessity or choice, U.S. motorists are holding onto their cars for longer than ever, with the age of the average vehicle on the road at a record-high 10.8 years, according to the research company R.
He convinced Genentech in 1986 to let him do more research on the method, and the company applied to patent the inhaled delivery of growth factors.
According to comScore, another research company, more than two-thirds of Americans and Europeans who scan QR codes do so in order to obtain information about a product.
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From the barley to the bottle, every part of the process is scrutinized by the company's research and development department to ensure it meets or beats sustainable targets.
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Analysts at International Data Corp. (IDC), a sister company to Computerworld, and Forrester Research Inc. predicted that most users would move to NT 4.0.
According to a study conducted by the research company Experian Automotive, a one-dollar variation in gasoline prices can be expected to account for just a 0.7 difference in small car sales at the one end of the new-vehicle spectrum and a 0.5 percent difference in full-size pickup truck sales at the other.
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The chief executive of one business-to-business (B2B) company, for instance, hired market research firms to gather data about its promoters and detractors.
Good information about companies is expensive to obtain, and a fund company prepared to conduct in-depth research may uncover potential bargains that a part-time investor would have little chance of spotting.
So far not a single bank or analyst firm has issued a research report, according to the company.
But a subsequent stint in the 1990s at the head of the Sofres, a market-research and polling company, introduced him to marketing.
Brdar suggests his company, thanks to research money from the Department of Energy, is well positioned to capture business from the states.
According to the automotive research company Vincentric in Bingham Farms, Mich.
Pachter, however, does note in a research report that the company is likely to add subscribers this quarter and investors may react favorably.
Facebook saw 162 million US-based unique visitors in July, compared to 160.8 million in June and 157.2 million in May, according to Internet marketing research company comScore.
Huberty asserted in a research note that the company is likely to both beat estimates for the June quarter and provide September quarter guidance above the current Street outlook.
Gates says that the good news is that Microsoft is hiring people in the United States at a rapid rate, which allows the company to do more research and increase employment.
As was rumored last week, according to TradeTheNews.com, the deterioration of the global economy is forcing the company to cut up to 5, 000 jobs in research and development, marketing, sales, and other areas over the next 18 months, including 1, 400 jobs Thursday.
Meanwhile, Credit Suisse analyst John Pitzer late yesterday wrote in a research note that the company is likely to post October quarter results below expectations, and to provide January quarter guidance below current estimates, due largely to fallout from the severe flooding in Thailand, which has severely curtailed production in the disk-drive sector.
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