Having worked across four continents during his career in consumer insights, Steve specializes in the use of technology to automate and improve the market research process. Prior to founding Zappi, Steve founded Tonic Insight, Tuned In Research, and Spring Research, where he led research teams to uncover new insights into consumer behavior around the world. His work on consumer purchase journeys has won multiple awards, and hes a regular speaker on the topic at industry events. Hes also a published specialist on behavioral economics, and his work on the impact this thinking has on market research won the ESOMAR Best Paper award. In addition, he was the recipient of the Best New Thinking award at the MRS Conference, the ARF Great Minds certificate, and the UK Industries Innovation award. As chair of the MRS Sustainability Council, hes passionate about moving the world of insights onto a fully sustainable pathway. When hes not building the worlds leading consumer insights platform, Steve can be found on the cricket pitch or studying history. Having helped to start Zappis US business in 2014, Ryan is now the companys global president, overseeing its operations across product, go-to-market, and scale. Hes worked in the consumer data business for over sixteen years and, having consulted with hundreds of brands over that time, still sees the same mistakes being made. That is why he wants to help market research teams become more consumer centric by making access to consumer opinion easier and more efficient. Ryan is an advisory board member at Michigan State University and is on the Insights Associations IDEAtor program, a fellowship program designed to encourage diversity, equity, and inclusion in market research. Outside of work, hes a family man who loves spending time with his wife and three children-either that or enjoying the great outdoors (preferably with a pair of skis). Born in The Netherlands, Stephan gained a masters degree in econometrics, then joined Unilever as a marketing trainee. After fifteen years in their personal care and foods categories, he left to help build global marketing consultancy EffectiveBrands, which was eventually sold to the consulting division of Kantar. Three years at Interbrand in New York City as Chief Strategy Officer followed before he joined PepsiCo in New York as Chief Consumer Insights Officer, where hes been for the past six years. Married with four children, he and his wife are getting used to being empty nesters now that their youngest child has left home to study abroad. His favorite hobby is rowing, which involves getting up at horrible times like 5am. As a global transformation leader with over twenty years of marketing, insights, and analytics experience at PepsiCo and Nielsen, Kates focus is raising the bar of creative and brand excellence. She places strong emphasis on delivering better returns on media investment and brand equity and on fueling consumer-centric growth from world-class innovation. Her role is to lead the digitalization of brand, advertising, and innovation insights through implementing game-changing partnerships and technology.
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Foreword - Introduction - Part One: The Case For Change - 1 Driving Competitive Advantage - 2 What Agile Market Research Looks Like - Part Two: Building An Agile Market Research Function - 3 Your Process - 4 Your Platform - 5 You And Other People - 6 The Future - What To Do Next - The Bluffers Guide To Tech Terms - Acknowledgments - The Authors