Two kinds of market research: primary and secondary

Secondary research means using published information such as industry profiles, trade, journals, newspapers, magazines, demographics.

Primary research: Social networks, loal competitors, focus-groups, consultants

RESEARCH

eWork
Some studies show that the prevalence of new types of work is high today. Gaeries, Lilischkis and Mentrup show that telework including home-based work, mobile eWork and freelance telework in SOHO (small office home office) increased six per cent in 1999 to 13 percent in Europe. The trend has liberated work from being bound to a particular time/space. For this phenomena we propose the term 'multi-locational tele-work'

• Communication tools are changing the media. Look at how the print, radio and TV changed the world.

SocialMedia potential
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Collective Intellect's Media IntelligenceTM service filters and ranks bloggers and posts, so you only see the most credible sources of information -- and only when it's relevant to your trading strategy. (has financial intelect product).

Online social networks and specific Twine.com are serving us in crowdsourcing research for all areas of ICON development. We use our socialmedia skills for finding, collecting, synthesising and filtering information that serves the creation of COWL.

Since we began the work on collective intelligence in 2005 we targetted to get in the center of the idea production of this field. Right now we know, or have a one degree relationship with most influential leaders in the collective intelligence field from a wide array of domains. We will interview influential thinkers that can reflect this diversity.

The power of organizing without organization. Socialmedia and companies

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