Research communities are fast replacing the focus group as the preferred method for discovering or testing new products concepts.
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The focus group, the marketing people, thought that Arcadia had a - denoted something wonderfully rural and sublime, romantic and so it would be Arcadia.
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They probably would have never left the focus group facility.
But that seems not to be too much a problem for the top 20% of families, socioeconomically, who are the focus group for whom a lot of the advertising and marketing is aimed.
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When it was revealed to participants in the Pontiac focus group that the car they liked best was a Pontiac, one-third decided they didn't like it best anymore.
When it was revealed to participants in the Pontiac focus group that the car they liked best was a Pontiac, a third decided that they no longer liked it the best.
Because it takes around three years from when an order is first placed until it treats its first patient, the radiotherapy focus group at AXrEM says the NHS should have bought 20 replacements machines by now instead of just one.
David Miles, the chairman of the radiotherapy specialist focus group of the Association of X-ray Equipment Manufacturers which formed to highlight the problem, says there has been a "collapse in critical investment".
Thatcher as a person of conviction who eschewed the focus-group politics that characterizes many in her line of work.
Some argued that the views of the focus-group parents should predominate: from now on it should always be "very overweight".
The IRS rules allow the tax-exempt entities to participate in those actions, as long as promoting social welfare remains the primary focus of the group's activities.
It's like all the focus-group members arrived riding cows.
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Arguing that focus groups were never really all that effective in the first place, agencies and research facilities have introduced a variety of methods aimed at shaking up the traditional focus group approach.
He and his mother make a commercial for the conservative religious group, Focus on the Family.
The second difference was the strong focus on group discussion, attendee input, and relationship building.
It has begun to focus the group more tightly, selling supermarkets, a brewery, a motorcycle maker and several pharmaceutical subsidiaries.
The solution: more testing by the independent group and a focus on changing the future instead of focusing on the past.
When the Komen group turned its focus away from the self-exam process, some women who had found their own breast cancers did complain.
The firm strapped electrodes to focus group participants to see how different parts of the brain reacted to the commercials.
Escalating violence in Iraq and the midterm election results have helped to focus more attention on the group of five Democrats and five Republicans, charged with reviewing U.S. policy in Iraq.
Here we focus on the former group--smallish funds with moderate costs (see table, p. 232).
Other areas of focus in the group's Caring for Gloucestershire campaign are money, jobs, people and the environment.
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Other areas of focus in the group's campaign are vulnerable people, small businesses, the environment and to "open up decision making".
This had the benefit of humanizing the new characters that parents may well have thought were the product of a focus group.
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At that point, the courtroom becomes an arena for artful liars and the jury a mere focus group choosing between alternative fictions.
Some members objected, arguing that the group should focus on whales.
Beauty brands need to get over their phobia of real research and come out from behind the two-way focus group mirror, where insights are bound to be limited.
Hardy said he believed the draft became an issue when a media consultant or a political operative dropped the buzzword in a focus group and saw a big reaction.
Overburdened by this long list of responsibilities, anganwadi workers have tended to focus on the group they see every day: children over the age of two whose mothers take advantage of free child care and daily meals offered by the centres.
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