Marketing research is involved with the linking of the manufacturers, intermediaries and the customers through information. It helps in identifying the recent trends in habits and behaviours of consumers through a research process. Some of the key applications of this study is to create a better product, decide the right price, distribution system and the promotional mechanism to attract customers and make a difference within the competition. It uses research tools in understanding the customer and segmenting the market. Some of the research tools are qualitative and quantitative in nature as well. Some of the frequently used techniques are like focus group study, TAT, projective techniques, regression analysis, factor and cluster analysis, discriminant analysis , structural equation modeling, multidimensional scaling and conjoint analysis etc. and other multivariate techniques.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Corporate executives, U.G, P.G and PhD students from the management discipline. It is a core as well as elective course for UG and PG.
INDUSTRY SUPPORT
All Industries both in Public and Private space , academic institutions and Research organizations.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Dr. J.K.Nayak is a faculty in the Department of Management Studies at IIT Roorkee. He is aCivil engineer, MBA and PhD from VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur. Currently he teaches marketingresearch at IITRoorkee. He has completed 9 short term courses on Data analysis and a QIP onthe same in the last 6 years itself. His first NPTEL Video course on marketing research andanalysis that has been quite popular and thus being rerun for the second time. He has deliveredextensive lectures on the same subject at places like IIM Sirmaur and Symbiosis, Pune. Apartfrom these Dr. Nayak has published almost 30 international publications in journals withreputed publishers such as Elsevier, Emerald, Sage, Springer etc. Recently he has published abook with Cengage publications on Retail management. He is a reviewer for variousinternational journals such as Journal of retailing and consumer services and tourismmanagement perspectives etc. He is also a member of bodies such as Ministry of Home affairs,India and on the board of private limited companies such as SRKay consulting. He has beeninvolved in the startup ecosystem as a mentor at IIT Roorkee and IIM -Ahmedabad.
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Course Details
Week 1: Introduction to Marketing Research, Defining Research Problem, Developing, Research Approach, Research Design, Qualitative Research. Week 2: Qualitative Research, Projective Technique, Case Study, Descriptive Research, Design, Primary & Secondary Data, Research Error, Measurement & Scaling. Week 3: Scale Development, Questionnaire & Form Design, Causal Research, Experimental Design & Sampling. Week 4: Sampling, Hypothesis Development, Type I & Type II Errors, Data Preparation, Hypothesis Testing. Week 5: Hypothesis Testing, Cross Tabulation, Correlation & Regression, Factor Analysis. Week 6: Factor Analysis, SEM & CFA, Cluster Analysis. Week 7: Cluster Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, Researching Rural Market, International Marketing Research. Week 8: Ethics, Report Preparation, Multi Dimentional Scaling, Conjoint Analysis.
Books and References
1.Marketing Research by Naresh Malhotra, Pearson .
2.Marketing Research: A South Asian Perspective 1st Edition (Churchill, Israel), Cengage learning.
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