Entries in Bonsai Strategy
Better Brands by Bonsai - Part 2: Bonsai BrandMap

In the new webinar series "Better Brands by Bonsai" - we show you what brand research can do for you today. The second part today is about: Bonsai BrandMap - Growth needs potential

Our experts Alexandra von Cukrowicz and Thomas Hoch present here how strategic brand positioning in a competitive environment reveals new potential for brands.

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Values Index 1/2024: Society more divided than ever before

The preliminary coverage of the largest social media study on changing values was enormous: daily newspapers, the trade press and several news portals reported on the Value Index 2024/1: how society is drifting apart and the tone in social media is becoming harsher. On January 17 at 11 a.m., we will show what companies and institutions can learn from the results of the value index from Bonsai and Trendbüro. We cordially invite you to attend the presentation in person in Hamburg or online:

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Better Brands by Bonsai - Part 1: Bonsai BrandCore

In the new webinar series "Better Brands by Bonsai" - we show you what brand research can achieve today. The first part today is about: Bonsai BrandCore - Strong brands for heart and mind. Prof. Dirk Frank, Head of Bonsai Strategy, presented how we capture the brand core and the brand codes - as well as the 'mental' availability and the implicit and explicit representation of the brand personality. And how all this helps your brand. Where you can register for the next webinars ....

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Assess potentials for new products

This is how innovation research works today: from the first idea to the finished product or service in the market. From the first idea to the finished product or service on the market. Our colleagues take you on our Innovation Journey. Today, Stefan Feldmeier and Prof. Dirk Frank show how to make early potential estimates and new, real and virtual test market formats even for completely new products and categories in the context of growth potential studies.

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Test concepts, packaging and prices quickly and thoroughly...

Price, packaging and concept research. How such tests work, among other things with the help of the Bonsai benchmark database, was the topic of today's second webinar on the Innovation Journey from Bonsai Research. Margareta Koch and Evelyn Kiepfer from the Bonsai Strategy Team led through the session. For all those who missed it: We have of course recorded it for you (see below).

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It's all about Change ...

... was not only the motto of this year's German Marketing Day (DMT), but would also have been the appropriate headline for the event there on the topic of market research. Official title: "The new role of market research - why marketers should have us on their radar" - with Eva D. Bock (September), Jason Modemann (Mawave), Dr. Kai Hudetz ECC NEXT) and Jens Krüger (Bonsai Research).

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Best Case: Weleda - at Insights 2023

This year's Insights Congress of planning & analysis had around 200 industry participants. Together with Dr. Christiane Quaas from Weleda, Prof. Dirk Frank from Bonsai presented the Best Case Weleda: A lesson from the marketing textbook: How large are the target groups we can really reach, and are we making sufficient use of the growth opportunities? What role do segmentations and the consumer journey play?

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Is this real market research, or can it go away?

1,000 respondents are representative. Or is it better to have 2,000? If even renowned journalists like Markus Lanz spread misinformation about market research on television, how is it supposed to be properly understood by the general population? In his new column, Jens Krüger asks how the market research industry should deal with the obvious lack of understanding of the concept of representativeness.

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Protected word-picture marks, algorithms, calculations and indices, the composition of which is known only to the institute. Is this kind of demarcation still in keeping with the times? Or isn't there a lot to be said for looking at one's cards? Bonsai-In his column on marktforschung.de, CEO Jens Krüger argues for more openness and transparency and explains why the methodical back room in market research has had its day.

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Bonsai the ISM Global Dynamics team takes over

Bonsai Research continues to grow: We take over proven methods, models and employees from ISM Global Dynamics. Prof. Dirk Frank and a large part of his staff are moving to Bonsai Research to strengthen the Strategy team. The background and details are explained by Bonsai CEO Jens Krüger and Prof. Dirk Frank, Head of Strategy, in an interview with planung & analyse.

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Otto Trend Study Ethical Consumption 2023 - "From the Optimism of Action".

For the sixth time, the Trendbüro presents the study on ethical consumption, which is initiated and published by the Otto Group and for which Bonsai Research has taken over the market research part.One important result in advance: Ethical consumer behavior remains capable of gaining majority support. For 62 percent of people, it is an integral part of their purchasing considerations - although the value has fallen by eight percentage points in view of the crises.

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Value index update 2022/1: What the press reports

We had already informed you about the "new" values index. According to it, health, freedom and family are the values that people are most concerned about. Today we summarise what the media are reporting about the largest social media study on social change. And how the values index can be used operationally in companies.

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The New Values Index - What the Project Confidence Means

Values Index Update 2022/1 - Project Confidence. Jens Krüger and Alisa Heinl (Bonsai), Ulrich Köhler and Fiorella Frank (Trendbüro) and Björn Welzel and Jonas Michels (Fritz Classen) present the new Values Index - more up-to-date, faster and bigger than ever before. The largest social media study on social change shows: Health, freedom and family are the values that people are most concerned about.

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Exit from the old world ...

... this is the headline of the article by Bonsai CEO Jens Krüger in the new issue of the cult magazine Max: "Climate change, poverty, fear of war, pandemic, social divisions - a better future seems ever more distant, the problems of humanity are building up like the devastating Omicron wave. The world seems to be undergoing a single transformation. Are the consequences foreseeable?"

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