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Welcome to the Business Intelligence Group (BIG) – the insight community supporting and advising on market research in business. We’re a resource for the latest thinking and techniques in business to business research. Join us for networking opportunities with insight professionals, find our knowledge centre on this website and keep up to date with our e-newsletter. For research buyers, we have the BIG Directory of specialist business research and insight providers.

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Future BIG Forums

We are busy planning our remaining 2022/3 forum season. If there are any topics you would like to see covered or if you have something you would like to present please get in touch with us at forum@thebusinessintelligence.group

Previous BIG Events

Minding the gap: innovative research exposing the marketers agency divide

It started in a bar in Melbourne. Two award-winning agency strategists were bemoaning the quality of briefs agencies received from their clients. They resolved to act and kick-started a global conversation, changing the way marketers and agencies talk to. each-other.

Hear Kirsten Swanepoel and Will Beagles, Flood and Partners for present their shortlisted paper from the MRS B2B Award at the 2022 MRS Awards.

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The BIG Survey 2022 Results

by Jordan Wood | 20th March 2023 | Business, Research, Respondents | 0 Comments

After joining BIG in 2021, I was tasked with helping with the marketing of the group, aiming to not only attract new members, but ensure existing members still valued their membership and we were shaping our events around their needs. As a market researcher, my first...

Market Research: Let’s Get Down 2 Business

by Amy Middleton | 15th December 2022 | Business, Methodology, Research | 0 Comments

Market research is all about improvement – for the brand, their consumer and all who actively or passively consume along the customer journey. As a concept it’s fairly simple, there's an opportunity to improve your business, your research team curates the killer...

All change – is progress towards net zero likely to stall?

by Trevor Wilkinson | 11th November 2022 | Business, Legislation/politics | 0 Comments

When I started writing this piece, we were on to our fourth Prime Minister in six years. But now I have to go back and add another one, our fifth PM in six years. As the great Oscar Wilde might have said, for the Conservatives to lose one Prime Minister may be...

BIG Summer Party

by Damon Thomas | 20th September 2022 | Business | 0 Comments

On Wednesday 14th September The Big Summer Party returned after three long years. With the shutting of Laithwaites under the Arch at London Bridge, a new venue was required and we lucked out. The room on Brook Street, courtesy of Illuminate Productions, overlooked...

Through the glass darkly… sifting through the rubble of Covidian economics

by Lucy Dunn | 30th June 2021 | Business, Methodology, Research | 0 Comments

In June's BIG Forum Dave Skelsey considered the last 18 months and gave his views on what has happened and what will happen next in this ever changing and evolving situation we all find ourselves within. Sharing a snapshot of the economy and giving predictions of what...

Questions about business to business research?

Q. Why are mixed methodology studies more common in B2B?

A. The complexity of B2B markets means that multiple research methods often need to be used in order to provide answers or solutions for strategic decisions

Q. Why are B2B costs higher than B2C costs?

A. B2B transactions often take more consideration and involve more decision makers. The B2B consumer will more often than not need to be able to prove a return-on-investment for their purchase

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