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NEW YORK - So what if rain is forecast for the Belmont Stakes? Smarty Jones has already splashed to victory through pools of mud at the Kentucky Derby.
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Think the grueling 11/2-mile oval may prove too long for him? He's finished his last two races with stamina to spare!
Today, millions will watch to see whether the brilliant, undefeated 3-year-old colt can become racing's first Triple Crown winner in 26 years.
"He's training like a machine," trainer John Servis said Friday after Smarty Jones jogged around the track at Belmont Park. "I don't see him having any problem with a mile-and-a-half. He's ready. He knows it's coming close. He realizes it's time to dance."
Eight other horses will be ready, too, looking to thwart Smarty's bid to become the first horse to win the Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978.
Of the 28 horses that have entered the Belmont with a chance at the Triple, 17 have failed, including five in the last seven years.
Charismatic broke his leg during the race in 1999, War Emblem stumbled out of the gate in 2002, and Funny Cide floundered in the mud last year. And in 1979, heavily favored Spectacular Bid lost after stepping on a safety pin the morning of the Belmont.
Jason Orman, who saddles Rock Hard Ten, said the rain adds an element of surprise to every race.
"You never know how they'll handle it," he said.
The rain alone shouldn't be enough to keep Smarty Jones from making history before an expected crowd of more than 100,000. He does well on wet tracks, winning the Arkansas Derby on mud before doing the same at a drenched Churchill Downs.
Forecasters predicted a 60 percent chance of rain at the 6:38 p.m. post time.
"I know that my horse is a good horse, and he'll run on anything," Servis said.
"The country has been waiting for a Triple Crown winner, and I know now why there haven't been many. The American people have fallen in love with this horse."
Seven months ago, no one outside Philadelphia Park had ever heard of Smarty Jones. Now he's the 2-5 favorite in the race that could make him just the 12th Triple Crown winner.
Since slamming his head on an iron bar at a starting gate last summer, fracturing his skull and almost dying, Smarty has been overpowering in winning all eight of his races under the patient and poised riding of Stewart Elliott.
And the undersized red chestnut colt seems to be getting stronger. Three weeks ago, the Pennsylvania-bred horse owned by Pat and Roy Chapman won the Preakness by a record 111/2 lengths, just two weeks after beating 17 rivals in the Kentucky Derby.
Still, the Belmont has a way of making a favorite look like anything but one.
"Let's face it, we've got a bull's-eye on our back," Servis said. "There are going to be some things happening in this race that are going to be totally uncharacteristic for a normal race, and Stewart is going to have to get through that."
Things have fallen into place so well for Team Smarty that rain might actually increase the colt's chances of joining Seattle Slew as the only unbeaten Triple Crown winners.
Among the rivals Smarty Jones will face, Birdstone (15-1) and Master David (20-1) ran poorly over the slop at Churchill Downs, while Purge (5-1) was second in the Arkansas Derby.
Rock Hard Ten (8-1) and Eddington (10-1), who finished second and third, respectively, in the Preakness, have run only on fast tracks. Royal Assault (20-1) has never raced on a sloppy track. The two 50-1 long shots - Caiman and Tap Dancer - haven't run on wet tracks, either.
Trainer Mark Hennig said Eddington has trained well over a sloppy track. "We might be better trying him in the mud," he said.
With a victory today, Smarty Jones would do more than join the sport's most elite club. He'd also become the richest racehorse in North America, with earnings topping $13 million.
Smarty's bankroll stands at $7.4 million. He would earn a $5 million bonus for winning the Triple Crown, plus the Belmont winner's purse of $600,000. Total haul: $13,013,155.
The money, though, is only a small part of the Smarty Jones story. Racing fans are desperate for a superstar, for some remarkable colt to end the long, long Triple Crown drought.
"It's just such an electric moment," said Patrice Wolfson, owner of Affirmed. "To non-racing people, it's a happening. To racing people, it's just the second coming. And we really need it. I so hope that he wins."
The 136th Belmont Stakes
Where: Belmont Park, New York
Field: 9 3-year-olds
Distance: 11/2 miles
Favorite: Smarty Jones, 2-5
Total purse: $1,000,000
Winner's share: $600,000
Weather forecast: A 70 percent chance of rain with high temperatures in the low 60s.
2003 winner: Empire Maker.
Smarty Jones TV guide: What to watch for in today's Belmont Stakes
NEW YORK - Smarty Jones will break from the outside No. 9 gate in today's 11/2-mile Belmont Stakes when he tries to become racing's 12th Triple Crown champion. Here's the way the race could shape up:
START: A critical moment for Smarty Jones. War Emblem lost his Triple Crown bid in 2002 with a stumble at the break. Jockey Stewart Elliott must get Smarty away cleanly, and if that happens, the Belmont distance works in Smarty's favor. There is a long run of about 3/16th of a mile to the first turn. That gives Elliott plenty of time to maneuver Smarty into solid stalking position behind the leaders. With little speed in the race, Purge and Birdstone could move to the front.
FIRST TURN: Purge has the most early speed and should be the leader rounding the first turn, with Birdstone second. Smarty should be third with 11/8 miles to go.
BACKSTRETCH: The first key decision point for Elliott. If the pace is reasonable, he will let Smarty coast along. If the pacesetter is running slow fractions, Elliott might turn Smarty loose during the long run down the Belmont backstretch. Look for Rock Hard Ten and Eddington to move up to keep Smarty within range.
FINAL TURN: This is where Smarty should strike. He made the decisive move in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness on the final turn. Look for Smarty to advance on Purge and take the lead at the midpoint - 38ths of a mile from the finish. Rock Hard Ten and Eddington will also begin prolonged drives.
TURN FOR HOME: Smarty should cut the final corner with a lead as Rock Hard Ten and Eddington move wide for the stretch run. At this point, Royal Assault could be making a late charge.
Smarty's looking for a clean sweep
A major payday awaits Smarty Jones if he wins the Belmont. With the purse at $1 million, the colt will be awarded a $5 million bonus for sweeping the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont races.
1: Master David - Jose Santos (20-1)
2: Purge - John Velazquez (5-1)
3: Caiman - Ramon Dominguez (50-1)
4: Birdstone - Edgar Prado (15-1)
5: Rock Hard Ten - Alex Solis (8-1)
6: Royal Assault - Pat Day (20-1)
7: Tap Dancer - Javier Castellano (50-1)
8: Eddington - Jerry Bailey (10-1)
9: Smarty Jones - Stewart Elliott (2-5)
Source: AP
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There's something regarding the Latino world that baffles. The spectacular growth in the Latino population in the U.S. is disproportionate to its influence. There's a lot more of us, but we don't seem to be making an impact on matters or events to reflect that phenomenon.
If we are growing so fast, why isn't our influence and involvement in all phases of society keeping pace with our population growth?
That it isn't happening is the challenge in trying to understand if and why we are the main culprits in undermining our status.
One hypothesis is extrapolated from a recent article in The New York Times that centered on one isolated area in an isolated jurisdiction in Florida that suggested numbers don't necessarily equal power or influence and even produce the fear of retribution.
The Latino population in Orange County, Fla., home to Disney World and other famous amusement parks, increased 84 percent in the last decade to 308,244 residents out of a population of 1.2 million.
One of the county board members ignored this large ethnic population in her district and named two non-Hispanic Whites to a citizens board assigned to redraw political districts.
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Fair enough, but realistically speaking and considering the explosive Latino numbers, it should be, particularly when it concerns a high-impact board with such a large and growing Spanish-speaking constituency.
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The lack of impact given the Latino numbers, and as isolated or insignificant as they might seem, suggests that numbers don't necessarily translate into power or influence by this minority on its way to becoming the dominant group in the U.S.
It also says that Latinos, apparently, are still not that well schooled in the art of community politics, and reflects apathy in the use of suffrage as a social tool and political persuader.
The U.S. Census data as of 2010 revealed there are now 50.5 million Hispanics, growing 46.3 percent from 2000 to soon become the largest demographic group in the U.S., overtaking the current dominant group, non-Hispanic Whites.
In numbers there is power, right? No, wrong. Judging from the history of U.S. Latinos, we seem destined to remain second bananas in most walks of national life, which is already illustrative in many areas, with some notable exceptions.
In the U.S. Congress, wherein lies our faith in constitutional governance, there are 24 Latino congressmen out of a body of 541 members, five nonvoting, and two senators in the 100-member body.
It doesn't really matter, I suppose, when there are many U.S. Latinos who have trouble identifying their national leaders or simply reply that we don't have any, suggesting a "who cares" attitude.
In one poll, Latinos were asked to name the Latino they considered "the most important leader in the country today."
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Our seemingly limited knowledge of representative government aside, the irony is that, like Native Americans, we can lay claim as the first inhabitants and settlers of this land, and this history permeates the entire fabric of this country.
Mexicans – Puerto Ricans and other Latinos weren't around yet – were here before the first White settlers, and their culture's imprint is evident throughout U.S. history. Mexicans fought on both sides of the Civil War – and some at the Alamo on the Texicans side that went down fighting Gen. Santa Anna's Mexican armies.
Military history is filled with the heroic service of Latinos – largely Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans – in all of our world wars – including 12 Medal of Honor recipients in World War II, where up to half a million served.
Mexicans were panning for gold in California before the Gold Rush and supposedly taught the gringos the technique. There are countless cities with Latino names and customs handed down from the Mexican influence of these ethnic settlers.
California has more than 400 cities and communities with Spanish names.
Texas came from tejas, land of tile roofs; Nevada, land of snow; Colorado, the red land; and Florida, land of flowers.
A lot of our U.S. English vocabulary comes from the Spanish/Mexican influence, like chocolate, tobacco, rodeo, burro, corral, patio, mosquito, cafeteria, vigilante and countless others.
We are part of the American mosaic in so many ways, and the American nation has been built with many contributions by the Mexican influence and lately by the all-inconclusive Latino population.
Yet many of us still prefer our own cuisine, our own languages, our own traditions and our own entertainment.
It's no wonder we trail other U.S. cultures and races in assimilation and participation and why, in some ways, some of us find more comfort existing in a separate society, opting not to pursue our just deserts and obligations as some sort of social escapism and rebellion.
The U.S. Black community has done an excellent job of integrating into U.S. society and claiming its rightful participation, although it came with a lot of struggle overcome by tenacity and an unshakeable faith in its pursuits.
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| pikurosonai00 chapter 2 . 6/3/2011
ROFL! THAT WAS GREAT! I was afraid they almost lost Gibson for a second.
Dora: In english, we say "Monkey" In spanish we say "mono"
Sprx: WE KNOW! YOU'VE BEEN SAYING THAT FOR THE PAST FIVE FREAKIN HOURS!
Otto: Gee, I wish Elmo was here to help.
Gibson: MAKE IT STOP!
| Novroxtar chapter 2 . 5/24/2011
Awesome! Totally halarious! Sequel plz!
| Xviera Siramad chapter 2 . 5/2/2009
I guess this story proves just how evil Barney is... jeez, that dinasaur creeps the heck outta me. The Barney song is now stuck in my head! Danget! I HATE that show! But the fanfic is hilarious, though. Jeez, if Barney was a terror, imagine how Dora would be... *shivers from imagining what would happen* Anyways, good job on the story and keep up the good work.
P.S. Could you make a fanfic where Barney dies and never comes back? I really hate that stuffed... purple dinosaur..thing or whatever you call it. Bye!
| Jarron'sDream chapter 2 . 3/12/2009
I couldn't stop laughing the whole time, great job!
| DemeterChild chapter 2 . 1/24/2009
How much more can they take?
| LovelySinner7 chapter 2 . 1/24/2009
Omg! That was funny... I read a harry potter one where draco and Harry met Barney and it was funny and this one was even funnier... Omg! That fake little-DORA! OMG! ARE U GONNA MAKE A SEQUEL TO THIS... It would be really cool...
| AmythistAngel07 chapter 2 . 1/24/2009
OH MY GOD! I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO BUST A GUTT!That was a totally cute short story, and you kept everyone in character!
Well, that's actually something I wanted to comment on, being evil as I am. I can see your humor with Gibson and his jelly whatever it was, but the point when you had him talking to it was a little OOC. Had he been telling that to himself or another teammate, it would've made more sense. Gibson being the snobbish, intellegent character who had just made the fact that Barney was illogical wouldn't do that. Had Sparks or Otto been in his shoes, maybe, but Gibson, no.
Instead of that, maybe you could have him leave a note saying: "Sparks don't touch my stuff" and all that jazz. I tend to get a little OOC with Gibson too, since he's really hard to protray in a humorous way and pretty much all of my stories have comedic moments in them.
Well, that's all for now. Get some other totally cute stories out there! TTYL!
~ Angel
| Fantasyfan4ever chapter 2 . 1/24/2009
Hehe, cute fic! Characterization was perfect especially with Barney. XD I kinda feel bad for him geting tricked, but once I imagine him, then I feel much better. Excellent job! Ending is awesome.
| LovelySinner7 chapter 1 . 1/1/2009
Delete it? R U SERIOUS NO WAY! U so have to continue... This is interesting.. i wanna see how they handle Barney..
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Oh my gosh! That was SO funny! I've always liked putting Otto saying and doing wierd things that only a character like him can make funny!
Otto's my fave! Thanks! UPDATE SOON!
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It's three weeks until I go and record 8/40: ALL THE RAGE. I'm very happy with the way it's coming along - it's going to ruffle some feathers, as it should as my post-Brexit album.
I'm not aiming low with this one, in fact, I think I might be aiming as high as I possibly could.
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Old places, new faces, new places, old faces - it's a joy to go around in the Smart Car, smelling incredible, to play these songs that plop out of my head. This time I'm trying to reach further down in to the SW. We've added North Wales and Hartlepool to the list - not to mention - a few very, very cool house shows in there as well.
Of note, I turn 39 on November 23rd (Birmingham, Tower of Song) and I'm playing support to DODGY at the Talking Heads on the 26th Nov. I'm not saying you should definitely come out to that show because it's my birthday.
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After that - there's a weekend off before Christmas bellies and Dr. Who.
THANKS to everyone that came out and supported the Toupé tour back at the end of August. We had a pure blast of fun (I did lose my voice for the last gig - Icelandic Nose Singing was all I could manage - sorry) - there will be more...and probably more after that. Details to come.
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The Francis report and its aftermath. Conor Davidson. Compassion. Candour. Culture. Training. Leadership. Assurance. 2001. First Annual Dr Foster guide shows that Stafford Hospital had a higher than expected HSMR at 108. 2006.
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First Annual Dr Foster guide shows that Stafford Hospital had a higher than expected HSMR at 108.
Reports in the local press that hospital is in a 'squalid state' (after visit by Terence Deighton)
"forceful style of management"
"pressure to meet targets"
"systemic failure of the provision of good care"
"too few staff, or staff not sufficiently qualified to cope"
"incontinent patients left in degrading conditions"
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Core values and fundamental standards**Aptitude test* Nurse training include 'at least 3 months' hands on care**Named nurses for patients**Regulation of Healthcare Support WorkersConsider creating role of registered older people's nurse*NICE to recommend staffing levels** (but note Keogh on reported vs actual staffing levels)
At Stafford:
Financial problems since 2003/04 Bullying management cultureBoard focused on achieving foundation trust statusIll thought-through staff cuts and service reconfigurationsDysfunctional consultant body
'Fit & Proper' person test for directors**Leadership college*System of accreditation/training for leadership posts*DoH should do impact assessments before any structural change of the healthcare system*
whether a complaint has been made or a question asked about it.
Disregarded criticismIneffectual complaints systemIsolated from wider NHSNo support for whistleblowersHigh HSMR blamed on coding errorFalsified records in A&E
More effective NHS complaints system**Statutory 'duty of candour' - to patients, public and regulators*Gagging clauses should be banned**Regulators should share information**Common information practices**Real time effective accessible data**
At Mid Staffs:
Poorly developed audit/clinical governance systemsBoard unaware of situation on the groundIgnoring indicators of poor performanceFailure of regulatory system
Fundamental/enhanced standards*Clear metrics on quality** (Note Keogh on mortality ratios)
Fundamental standards should be rigorously enforced and to cause death or serious harm to a patient by noncompliance should be criminal offence**Single regulatorBeefed up commissioners*Note role of medical training in assurance
At Stafford:
Early warning signs - shabby & dirty environment, unsmiling staff who were distracted by mobile phones, didn't answer buzzers promptly, didn't pick up litterIsolated 'timewarp'Toleration of mediocrity'Keep your head down'BullyingIsolated 'Systems business' put over patients business
All of them!Focus on 'culture of caring''Cultural barometer'Vague points about values, teamwork, post discharge careFrustration at political interference in NHSSchwarz roundsCan cultural change be achieved through top down recommendations?
"In the end, culture will trump rules, standards and control strategies every single time, and achieving a vastly safer NHS will depend far more on major cultural change than on a new regulatory regime."
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I knew that tanning was bad for you. What I didn't know was that you could turn your face into a rawhide chew if you tanned incessantly.
Patricia Krentcil has demonstrated this perfectly.
The 44-year old mom from NJ has had her face plastered all over the news over the past week, after being accused of taking her 6-year old daughter to the tanning salon.
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Wait, your face looks like a piece of leather, and you think we're JEALOUS??!
Hahaha!!!! I'll take fat and ugly any day over having a face like that. And that face gives new meaning to the word ugly. She must not have any mirrors in her house.
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That bitch is crazy. You are not supposed to take kids there. Everyone knows you are not supposed to take kids there!
According to TMZ, Krentcil had a few choice words for Snooki too:
She's the biggest a**hole in the world. She's fake, she's fat, her t*ts are fake, she's disgusting.
LOL Cat fight anyone?
This woman needs some serious therapy. God knows her kids are probably going to need some later on in life too.
One good thing has come of this. Looking at her face reminded me that I need to buy a new leather handbag. Off to do some shopping! 🙂
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As you can see, the bag has since mutated and now I can NEVER find ANYTHING I need out of it!
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Somewhere in this dog pile is everything I need.
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Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Editor's Note: I need to admit that I am jealous I didn't write this post. Kevin Lonnie of KL Communications is someone in the market research industry that I respect immensely and today's post is an example of why: he just nails it in his analysis of where the industry is, the opportunities and challenges in front of us, and where we may be heading. I'll be posting my own variation on these themes later this week, although Kevin just raised the bar very high indeed! Enjoy this one folks and take it to heart; as Kevin says it is time for market research to put the pedal to the metal.
"The survey" is synonymous with quantitative research. To the rest of the world, "the survey" is where quant begins and ends.
In a similar vein, "Let's do some groups" summarizes about 98% of the qualitative industry. I'm not trivializing the great work by our leading qualitative experts, I'm saying that in the public domain and for that matter, in the halls of business, "Let's do some groups" is where qualitative begins and ends.
Now, of course, we have online surveys and online groups, but that's just moving the same techniques to the web.
I would like to personally thank "the survey" and "some groups" for an admirable job. They have represented us for the past 60 years now and we wouldn't be a $30 billion industry without them. But it's time to break out the gold watch and hold the retirement ceremony because their time is past.
Yet even with the prospect of exciting new technology and prodded by tough economic times, left to our own devices I think we would still be slow to change. In fact, last month I hosted a table at MRA's Corporate Research Conference on the impact of social media. I was a bit surprised that the seven corporate researchers at my table admitted to only the most basic understanding of social media, let alone its potential implications to our industry. They also shared that interest in social media insights was not coming from the research group but rather from senior management.
I realize that MR is not a technology led industry; our roots lie in the social sciences and statistics. But when technology affords us the tools to do our job better than we ever have before, it's time to get on that train. And technology is affording us the opportunity to become a proactive, rather than a reactive industry. Sure companies want meaningful interactions with their customer base, but mostly they want to make money. And our industry can do that not only through risk reduction, but through growth opportunities. And while "the survey" and "some groups" can help with the former, they offer little for the latter.
I have read countless articles expressing the viewpoint that the new opportunities presented by New MR (e.g. social media listening, mobile, text analytics, MROCs, Crowdsourcing, neuro-monitoring, etc.) are merely new tools in our toolbox. I don't agree with that politically correct argument. I think these new tools are the replacements. Which means "the survey" and "some groups" are going the way of the dodo bird.
As for the timeframe, I think we will have a radically different research environment within 10 years. And as usual, it will be driven by money.
- Most expensive surveys will be replaced by social media listening.
- Attitude & Usage / Huge Tracking Surveys, no reason for them anymore, again replaced by social media listening
- Text analytics is the engine that will power social media, more and more powerful algorithms will make sense of what today is largely white noise. The quant jocks of today will be the text analytic gurus of tomorrow
- Product/Concept Testing Surveys – We'll now have consumers helping to drive the co-creation process via Crowdsourcing.
- Focus Groups will be replaced by meaningful, transparent conversations & neuromonitoring / neuromarketing observations
- Online ethnography will allow for virtual testing centers where passionate consumers provide video feedback
- MROC forums will provide the same moderator led discussions at a fraction of the cost
- Neuromarketing will allow us to know what consumers really think about your new product/ad with a roadmap of firing neurons that words just can't equal
- Attitude & Usage / Huge Tracking Surveys, no reason for them anymore, again replaced by social media listening
Mobile will become the dominant mode of data collection just as it's becoming the dominant mode of voice & data communication. An app driven interactive experience will replace "the survey" which is far too bulky and dull for the mobile environment.
So while I come to bury "the survey" of today, I think like a Phoenix it will rise again. Unlike today's self administered boring survey the survey instrument of tomorrow will be greatly augmented via gamification. While social media will replace the huge trackers, we still need an objective survey to cross-validate social media produced findings. Survey designers will need to become survey engagers in that it will be as important to create an appealing fun environment as it will be to craft questions. We spend too much time arguing between five and seven point scales (in fact 11 is better yet!) and not enough on engaging the respondent so that they are sharing thoughtful opinions. Tomorrow's survey programmers will be more akin to game developers with a strong combination of both left brain and right brain skill sets!
And while we remain reluctant to change, there is finally enough motivation to propel even researchers into the 21st century. And that's the prospect of enormous competitors who are quite willing to take our lunch money. And yes, I'm talking about Facebook and Google. With their enormous database (Google + puts Google in this discussion) of personal information these Goliaths are well positioned to dominate our industry unlike anything we've seen before.
Unless, of course, we embrace change and realize that we have one key advantage that no amount of technology can supplant and that is the intellectual property, the sheer skill to make sense of it all.
We're moving to an agile, proactive, interactive future. It won't resemble the industry we grew up with. Forces are conspiring to accelerate the rate of change.
Now is the time to put the pedal to the metal, because that car you just noticed in your rearview mirror is actually far closer than it appears.
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November 6th, 2011 at 9:07 am
The simple truth, simply put. The days of conventional survey research are counted. Better to embrace the reality than sit back and argue.
November 6th, 2011 at 11:46 am
I always find it reassuring when I read someone else say things that I believe but that often get laughed off as naive or paranoid. Perhaps the only real point for debate is how long the transition will take and who becomes a Tower Records.
November 6th, 2011 at 12:05 pm
This article starts out bold and brave, but seems to end up proposing new versions of old stuff. Instead of surveys, gamified surveys! Instead of focus groups, meaningful, transparent conversations!
One of the ideas proposed does match up to the promise of the headline: Social media listening is genuinely different in character to focus groups, because you're observing natural behaviour "in the wild" instead of artificially structured.
But if we are going to claim that the era of surveys and focus groups is over, then we should be talking about genuinely new techniques to replace them. I would of course suggest behavioural experiments, or direct cognitive modelling of consumer decision-making, but then that's what I do. No doubt others will have other suggestions!
November 6th, 2011 at 12:06 pm
I have to confess that whilst I totally embrace the need for a modernisation of our arsenal of tools, a black-and-white portrait of the future, whereby all the past has disappeared, to be replaced by shiny new, of-the-moment toys makes me push back mentally. If the benefits of all the new MR tools are so cogent, and it is so obvious that they are so superior, why has uptake of many of them been relatively slow? Cost? Unfamiliarity? Lack of validation? Concerns about data norms and tracking consistently over time? To me, I have to say that White Heat language, excitement about future prospects can cloud the rational facility – who amongst us can confiidently look into the near, let alone mid-term future and state what will happen? Crystal ball gazing is fun, but change is notoriously difficult to predict. A sense of humility in the face of a degree of uncertainty is warranted.
November 7th, 2011 at 8:40 am
Leigh and Edward make strong points. Change often requires technology, but at bottom it only happens when people, skills, training and culture arise to support it and shape its applications. A sense of inevitability does not guarantee adoption, as Kuhn advised us over 40 years ago.
November 7th, 2011 at 9:20 am
It's a tad annoying when I find myself largely agreeing with the critiques offered by Leigh and Ewdward. But as I'm clearly one not to be held back by humility, let me speak to them.
I would agree that my vision of the future is not all that radically different than the current landscape. We will still need customer insights, multiple data points to provide any type of clear recommendations to our clients. But I would argue that our tools will be changing faster than you might think. The record company analogy that Jason provided is spot on. I was in a meeting at Sony Records when the VP lamented, "We need to get folks to go back into the stores and buy CDs." The millennial generation are not fond of surveys and especially tedious ones. But gamification can make the survey taking experience palatable and perhaps even fun. Our clients will always need customer insights but how we obtain them is what is going to change quickly.
As for the rate of change, I would suggest that senior management is quite willing to bypass traditional MR in favor of faster, cheaper insight alternatives. So will the current decision makers of MR suddenly favor new MR alternatives? No, they will just be pushed to the sideline and eventually downsized.
And if I am to be accused of hyperbole, I would argue that it's better to embrace and understand these alternatives than to rely on the comforting thought that change is always exaggerated.
It is a personal sense of conviction that change will occur quickly that inspired this piece. My hope is that the reader will respond by at least becoming aware of New MR possibilities, so they will be on solid financial footing which ever way the winds of change blow.
November 7th, 2011 at 11:46 am
HI, Kevin, thanks for a thought-provoking post. I do see the industry changing, just as it changed with the adoption of the online survey. (I am personally very excited about gamification and other efforts to better engage respondents in those same online surveys.) From the client-side, we are using New MR, such as MROC's and social media listening. I'm confident that as New MR evolves, we will be using the techniques more and more. As awareness grows, what additional steps do you suggest for moving towards adoption? What sorts of things should we be doing, both personally and at a corporate level, to move to the next level?
November 8th, 2011 at 8:32 am
Hi, Joan,
Thanks for the nice words. Great to hear you're already adopting many of the New MR techniques I discussed. To address your questions about faster/smoother adoption and getting to the next level, I suggest you take advantage of your researcher's twin skill set at being both rationale and creative.
On the rationale (left brain) front, I would continue to experiment with New MR techniques right along side your traditional efforts. This will allow you to validate & compare the insights obtained via either approach. Social media listening, in particular, requires some good old fashioned analysis (e.g. changing your search words, coding, etc.) to trust and flesh out the listenings.
On the creative (right brain) front, I would encourage you to take a page from our marketing brethren and promote your new MR tools like a new brand introduction. I'm at a conference in Orlando right now and I'm hearing more and more of the MR Departments bumping heads with a new Social Media and Analytic team. So you want to make sure these new tools fall under your jurisdiction and to achieve that, you need to stake your claim as the rightful home for these new tools. So having a "sell sheet" describing your department's new capabilities could help speed adoption.
Finally and most improtantly, these tools need to be in concert with your overall responsibilities/objectives. If your firm is looking for increased revenue through new product development, having the consumer co-create is a powerful new application of New MR. And clearly social media can identify trends in the market before anyone would ever think of testing them via traditional MR.
So although I would retain your reseacher's caution towards anything new, I would certainly promote the fact that your team is ready and willing to take on a more proactive role in helping the firm's overall financial challenges.
Hope this all makes sense. Good luck and stay in touch.
November 10th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Wow. Reminds me of the time I worked at a bank in 1983 (!!) and everyone was touting online banking – yet I think it's only been in the past 5 years that adoption levels reached critical mass.
Yes, the MR industry must move into the 21st century, but there are several caveats to your predictions, I believe. First and foremost, you are talking primarily about consumer research. The B2B world is going to be slower to move to the "new" methods. Secondly, a lot of text analysis of consumer comments "in the wild" is just a more modern focus group – I would hope that decisions will not be based only upon comments posted in various forums, but include quantitative research as well.
There are already ways of engaging greater participation in surveys – perhaps we just need to use the more interactive technologies available when programming them.
November 11th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Hey Jan,
Well, we may simply be on different sides of the suggested timeline.
With the banking industry analogy, I think that is akin to the rise of online research within our industry. It did take online about 15 years to achieve dominance in data collection with an even slower adoption curve outside of the US. But that was dealing with limited variables, you still did your banking, either via traditional methods (in person, snail mail) or online.
But there are other variables in play this time. There's no assurance that folks will continue to use MR for consumer insights in light of faster, cheaper alternatives. The concern I have about our notorious slow rate of adoption is that it might lead to Social Media Listening Departments literally sprouting up overnight not to mention an opportunity for new competitors such as Facebook or Google to gain traction.
So am I guilty of some hyperbole? Yeah, left to our own devices, we won't turn to new MR with any sense of urgency. But my sense of urgency is not based on embracing hyperbole, rather it's based on my genuine concern that we as an industry need to embrace change or risk irrelevance.
November 16th, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Thanks, Jan, for bringing up the issue of slower adoption in B2B. B2B respondents' communications preferences vary all over the map. I agree with those who say they will follow those of consumers. Mixed methods will be with us for a long time.
November 28th, 2011 at 3:07 am
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November 30th, 2011 at 5:33 am
From the 60 year history referenced in this piece, it seems to me that the MR industry has made a case for it's existence on the back of an accepted uncertainty. Uncertainty about what the consumer will do against our client's offerings, and their ways of offering product/services. So the statement below caught my attention:
"Sure companies want meaningful interactions with their customer base, but mostly they want to make money. And our industry can do that not only through risk reduction, but through growth opportunities. And while "the survey" and "some groups" can help with the former, they offer little for the latter."
In the context of technology, I understand the MR industry must adapt to the 'new times', but as the advances settle down, our relation with MR clients will probably remain on the back of the uncertainty mentioned above; we will help to reduce the risk but will keep struggling to identify the growth opportunities for our clients. The reason being that this is what the social and statistical nature of MR can afford us, and no amount of technology can on it's own exponentially reduce this uncertainty.
I would make a case for a distinction in the change we are observing. There is the change of the relation of the MR industry players with their clients, which remains slow and on the back of uncertainty. And the change within the MR industry which it's no doubt being catalyzed by technology, and therefore urges for quick adaptation.
Our recent history saw the change of the MR industry to online, and my opinion is that the distinction of change above applies.
December 6th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Hi Lucas,
First of all, I very much appreciate your comments and thoughts on the pace of change in our industry.
If I follow you correctly, you feel that new technologies will not be any more effective at reducing uncertainty than what we've been doing. And that marketers will continue seeking research mainly to reduce uncertainty. I don't dispute this first point, that new approaches may not be any better at reducing uncertainty.
But, I believe the second point (that marketing research is valued mainly as a way to reduce uncertainty) is self-fulfilling unless we as marketing researchers define our mission more broadly. We shouldn't accept the notion that our major function is to help mitigate risk, but assert that we can also add value to understanding how to grow and identify new opportunities.
New technologies will allow us to obtain customer opinions and interactions in real time, outside the more traditional vehicles of marketing research (e.g., surveys and focus groups). By offering more timely insights, research will be used more for product ideation & development and less for simply evaluating developed concepts.
In other words we expand from the restraints of "risk reduction agents" to also include "growth opportunity providers". However, the latter model is contingent on an enhanced relationship with the consumer. We don't expand our reach without also elevating our relationship with consumers from the passive "respondent" to the dynamic "collaborator".
December 7th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Poor Tom. Getting thrown under the bus to make an example once again 🙂
To quote another, temporary, music industry ex-pat:
1.) Adopt to new tools/channels AND how to best use them. Be tool/channel agnostic; allow the objective and application to dictate the approach.
2.) Get past the Identity crisis. Your audience is out THERE.
3.) Researchers are really smart people and typically use a lot of words to be very clear…and usually are. Thing is, these days, no one has the luxury. We live in a 140-character world.
4.) Engage, instigate, insight…and make'em come back for more.
5.) Keep your executive advice brief and bold: 5 lines on a Blackberry (or other mobile devise). Fall forward fast!
(whew did it in 5…even tho lil beyond core topic 🙂
December 7th, 2011 at 1:58 pm
…oh and great piece Kev! Bold and to the point!
December 7th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Enjoyed your perspectives very much. (Thank you, Ellen K, for the LinkedIn reference.) Aside from debating the evolution of tools and methodologies, I propose that what has gotten even more difficult to figure out is determining what question to actually ask, what metric to look at. Yesterday we had 10 data points. Today we have a million. Against that backdrop, a behavioral and attitudinal landscape that I'd say is more uncharted than known, more complicated than manageable. I wonder if it's more than the change we're accustomed to from one generation to the next. The fundamentals seem to be changing below our very feet as we walk this planet everyday. Reminds of a suggestion from Prof. Martin Block at Nortwestern University in the early 90's and makes me wonder what we might be able to learn from chaos theory as we wrestle with this opportunity.
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