Research designed for decision support focuses exclusively on supplying rigorous data to facilitate evidence-based approaches to strategic decision-making. Hallmarks of decision support research include...
Untangling some problems requires a more complex research design than a conventional question-and-answer approach.
I almost never speak ill of competitors. In fact, I like them and value them. Whenever I am able to partner with them, I learn a great deal, and they…
In our fall newsletter we purposely glossed over the “standard” best practices in writing surveys that one typically reads about in text books or learns in research methods classes. We…
What do you do when faced with a skeptical audience of business executives who are predisposed to disagree with your research findings? It is tempting to leave out the boring…
In quantitative survey research, the questionnaire affects nearly everything else that is critical to a study: the data, the analysis, and the findings. And because of this, writing surveys is…
In just the last thirty-five years, response rates for telephone surveys have been plummeting. In the 1980s, response rates of 70% or higher were common for well-designed and carefully executed…
