Posts by Ian Twohig
A Guide for Choosing the Best Primary Data Collection Tool for Qualitative Research in Academia

In this article, we explore the factors that determine the appropriate primary data collection method, the difference between exploratory and confirmatory research, and the importance of choosing the right data collection platform for qualitative research. For early career researchers, this article works as a comprehensive guide by providing tips throughout

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Iterative Research: What it is, How to do it and Tools you can use

In recent years - particularly over the past 12 months - there is a great sense of alignment, if not merging of customer experience, user experience, and market research. Nearly one year ago to the day we published an article on why Customer Centricity is critical for brands. Today, as we reflect on this ever-increasing need for organisations to become even more customer-centric, questions are still raised surrounding how it can be achieved.

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Top Five Research Tools to Identify Customers Unmet Needs

Understanding the unmet needs of consumers is essential for any business looking to innovate and succeed in today's ever changing market. Capturing unmet needs is critical to developing products and services that meet customers' expectations, build loyalty, and drive revenue. This blog outlines five tools you can use for unmet needs research.

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Obtaining Ethical Approval for Academic Research: Things to Consider

Discover essential considerations for successfully navigating the ethics approval process in academic research. Prioritise ethics alongside research design, demonstrate risk-to-benefit ratio, ensure data protection with reliable tools like Indeemo, and provide clear instructions for appropriate data collection. Uphold participant rights, foster responsible research practices, and navigate the ethics approval process with integrity.

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Streamlining Research As You Scale: A Beginners Guide to Research Ops

Research ops, which stands for research operations, refers to the practice of applying operational rigour to research processes. By doing this, research teams can increase the efficiency, consistency, and impact of their research efforts. Organisations that conduct a lot of research, such as user research, market research, or data analysis, can benefit greatly from research ops.

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Using Continuous Discovery Research Tools to build Customer Centric Products

To design products, services and experiences that succeed and scale, it is no longer sufficient to just conduct Discovery Research at the start of your design phase and rely solely on the needs, pain points and insights this surfaces. In an era where change happens so rapidly, you need to implement tools to conduct Continuous Discovery research. This post explains how.

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Mobile Qualitative Research methods for researching the Cost of Living

As we approach the end of 2022 and the winter months are just in sight, all eyes are on the continuing rise in living costs for many households around the world. As all demographics in society begin to feel the crunch more than ever, all industries will be searching for ways to improve their services by meeting the needs of new and existing customers.

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Tips for using a Diary Study for Patient Experience Research

At the intersection of patient-centred care and patient experience research sits a diverse array of research methodologies. Quantitative techniques and tools, such as, patient satisfaction surveys are often embedded in the fabric of understanding patient experiences - both within and outside of the hospital/clinic setting. Qualitative methodologies focus on a deeper dive into the lives of patients. Techniques, such as, one-to-one interviews or patient focus groups, tend to peel back the layer of quantitative data.

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The benefits of Journey Mapping tools for Patient Experience research

Our understanding of the patient journey had already become increasingly complex. Tele-health and digital health services have disrupted the traditional modes of patient flow. Patient journey mapping involves a set of tools and techniques that can can help our understnading of this non-linear process with positive patient experience outcomes

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How a User Journey Mapping Tool can be used for Generative Research

User research is a vital component of UX and design. In the world of user experience, the strands of research that precede innovative design and improvements to products and services, provide a holistic and transparent view of the human behind the user. User research not only precedes design, but increasingly, insights are required for an iterative and agile UX project.

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