imc Research Introduction

An Introduction To Our Global
Market Research Agency

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• Market research agency with unique tools, products, data and
perspectives on the global marketplace.
• Extensive portfolio of ongoing research projects with myriad
international brands and organizations.
The Company • Commitment to value and excellence.
• We believe in the power of information to transform our
businesses and our world.

• 171 full-time staff; 95% of which are the outside the US.
• Focus on world-class leaders, consultants, and market research
scholars and practitioners.
• In house, we speak English, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Tagalog,
Russian, Ukrainian, Farsi, Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean
Employees and Turkish.
• Values include collaboration, attention to detail, efficiency and
pro-active service.



• Comprehensive research services in technology and
telecommunications, consumer goods, healthcare, media/
entertainment, philanthropy/not-for-profit, and services
markets world-wide.
Services • Research thought leadership, state-of-the-art research tools
and products, training and execution.
• Information repositories and panels.
• Cultural awareness and trend analysis.

• Pure market research, delivering research services to major
global players and innovative sectors.
• Deep quantitative and qualitative expertise.
• Rigorous scientific approaches.
Core Business • Research components and blended solutions.
• Focus on research resulting in positive change and
transformed relationships between organizations and their
constituencies.


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imc Research was founded with the vision of producing innovative and cutting-edge market research models to enable
researchers to deploy understanding to our clients. To realize this vision, we are developing research products as
evolutionary building blocks, starting with affordable data collection and analysis tools.

• World-class consultants and scholars
• Virtual organization of full-time Versatile
employees and a network of free Research
agents and freelance researchers Components
• Quantitative and qualitative balance
• Academic/scientific and commercial
perspectives
• Global presence and deep ties into
multi-national organizations Research Tools
• Industry and practice champions Experts and
• Deep collaboration within the Process
organization, and with clients

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• Advertisement Concepts
• Advertising Tracking
• Audience Research
• Awareness, Attitude and Usage
• Brand Equity
• Brand Positioning
• Brand Tracking
• Business-to-business Research
• Competitive Analysis Experts
• Customer Satisfaction
• New Product/Service Innovation
• Packaging, Design and Name Testing
• Pricing
• Product Feature Evaluation Versatile Tools
• Segmentation Research and
• Software User Interface Testing/ Components Process
Usability
• Web Analytics and SEO

Also, custom and hybrid research design.

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• Real-time and longitudinal data
collection
• Traditional (face to face, phone) and
emerging (e.g. Web, devices and
social media) methods
• Focus on cost and time efficiency; Research
global operations for maximum Experts
efficiency
• Data repositories (sector, country
and project/product specific)
• Systematic technological
Tools Versatile
approaches
and Research
• Robust technical infrastructure
Process Components
• Highly collaborative processes and
state-of-the art collaboration tools

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Global/Regional Teams & Coverage Capabilities
+ 171 Full Time

+ 800 Agents
Europe
+ 89 Scholars
22 & Ph.D.s

8
13 Japan
North 121 7
and Asia and the
South America Pacific

Consultants Full time Agents Headquarters


Cultural/Societal Trends
• Increasingly global access and awareness Consumer Trends
• Demographic shifts
• Increasing demand for real-time communication
• Tumultuous political economies and content on the move.
• Social movements • Desire for seamless user experience on one
• Information cultures and knowledge device and/or across multiple devices.
economies • Continually looking for service enhancements and
• Technological progress and emergent effects convenience factors.
• Global data and insight • Demand for transparency, pro-activity, and
fairness of cost and service.
1 • Desire for good branding and high design.
• Increasingly looking to buy from ethical,
Business Trends sustainable, and green organizations.
• Expanding global marketplace.
• Market and device convergence (e.g. 2
Telecommunications, IT and Media industries).
• Social media and other emerging technologies.
• Sustainable business practices and triple
We help our
bottom line reporting. clients address
• Nimble, responsive and real-time
organizational transformations. 3 key market
• KPIs and other measurement systems. issues and
• Big data and business intelligence
opportunities. opportunities

Value Proposition and Meaningful
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 Longitudinal and
reusable data

Standardized
Research Products
Technology
 Superlative insights driven research
 Expert Insight implementation
Real-time
operations  Cost-effectiveness
 Accessible deliverables
World-class consultants
and scholars  Time-efficiency
 Real-time Access
Global presence
and collaboration

 Scalable research
execution


Market Research Lifecycle

 Products
 Understand  and services
market  trialing and  Brand  Media
evolution testing research research

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

 Products and  User experince  Retail and  Customer and
services assesment and shopping behavior  consumer
engineering imporment research managment
research research


imc Research in the Technology Sector

For more than two decades, imc Research has been among the world’s largest providers of business to- business and
consumer research to the global technology and telecommunications industries. Combining experience and
innovation, we continually update traditional research techniques to meet the needs of a fast-changing market. The
result is an exclusive suite of custom and syndicated services that addresses all of your business objectives, from
optimizing staff and channel incentives to maximizing the return on your marketing investment to analyzing the
productivity of emerging technologies.

Unique in our ability to profile, segment and evaluate technology customers, we provide a deep understanding of
your target groups, including their needs, brand awareness and perceptions, buying behaviors and product usage. As
a result, we have been a major force in guiding some of the most renowned technology leaders in identifying,
growing and retaining their customer bases.

We custom-build research solutions for your specific issues across a full range of applications, including:

- Market measurement—critical intelligence on opportunity assessment, purchasing patterns, decision-making
processes and customer requirements.
- Product/service development—key information on market gaps, wants, potential and uptake.
- “Go-to-market” decisions—powerful support for pricing, promotional, branding and communication strategies.

imc Research delivers key measures of customer satisfaction, including key drivers and competitive comparisons.
You gain tactical and strategic guidance for improving satisfaction and performance across all your stakeholders—
securing your customer relationships and supporting the long-term health of your business. Our experience gives us
a broad base of knowledge across both big-picture and niche issues, as well as both global and local markets.


Geographic coverage
 Western Europe  Central & Eastern Europe  UAE
 UK  Russia  Bahrain
 France  Poland  Qatar
 Rep. of Ireland  Czech Republic  KSA
 Germany  Turkey  Kuwait
 Spain  North America  Jordan
 Portugal  USA and Canada  Other
 Greece  Latin America  South Africa
 Italy  Mexico, Brazil  Israel
 Sweden  Argentina, Chile
 Switzerland  Asia & ME
 Finland  India
 Denmark  China
 Austria  Taiwan
 Belgium  Thailand
 Netherlands  Malaysia
 Norway  Japan
 Korea
 Australia


2,074 mil. $ revenue 2011
Revenue generated in 10 countries worldwide
Revenue per country [100,000. $]

Revenue
(as a contractor of
automotive clients)


Case Study:
Market Segmentation Study for an International Telecommunication Services Provider
 Research Objectives:
– Internationally harmonized targeting of the business market for mobile
communications.
– Targeting business clients according to their needs regarding mobile
communication (future oriented trend analysis).
– Prioritization of business target groups /segments and support of marketing plans.
– Optimization of service and proposition development/ more effective CRM
activities.
– More targeted communication of benefits.

 The Solution:
– One comprehensive segmentation for five markets:
• Application of the imc Research segmentation process
• Supplementation response which overcomes the traditional view by company
size
• Acknowledgement and consideration of local interests
– Integration of segment information into the data warehouses of nationally
operating units of the client (by modeling)

 The Results:
– Increasing customer loyalty through a better understanding of heterogeneous
target groups.
– Increasing ARPU through more targeted propositions.
– Possibility of harmonization and central co-ordination of proposition development.
– Better knowledge of the heterogeneous needs of prospective clients .


Case Study:
Customer for Life program (CfL) = Customer satisfaction program

– Conducted in more than 30 countries
– Done for sales and service events
– Web based reporting system
– Different methodologies: online, CATI, postal

– Industry intentions and purchase study
– Syndicated study.
– Covering key European markets.
– Ad hoc projects:
– Including brand and new concepts research .
– Usability and safety research.

– Rebranding research:
 5 countries in 2007, 20 focus groups.

– New concept’s contribution to the brand :
 7 countries in 2009, 1500 online interviews.


More information
AR Elsharawy
Managing Director, Americas
ar.elsharawy@imc-re.com

Lisa Galarneau, Ph.D.
Research Director, Global Insights
lisa.galarneau@imc-re.com

Donald Eleventh , Ph.D.
CEO
donald.eleventh@imc-re.com

Lark Lee, Ph.D.
International Chief Operating Officer
lark.lee@imc-re.com

General inquiries:
info@imc-re.com

Web: http://www.imc-re.com
Twitter: @imcresearch


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