Online MR Magazine May Edition 2016 Issue 1 | Page 23

Do We Really Understand The Customers? We are in the midst of a time of great change in the market research industry Traditional MR has developed great techniques to track what consumers do and ask them questions as to why. However, new age consumers are fundamentally different in some ways. Unfortunately, what consumers say they do does not always track with their actual behaviors. Traditional market research is infact fundementally missing something when trying to identify insights explaining why shoppers make their purchase decisions. The real challenge is to understand why these new age consumers are behaving differently To meet this challenge, researchers must design and interpret research using a new framework - one that is more predictive of the behaviour than past approaches