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Conclusion
Marketing research has played a critical role in Intels phenomenal growth. Marketing research was instrumental in developing the Intel brand, designing the Intel Inside campaign, and crafting the new logo with the Leap Ahead tag line. Continued reliance on marketing research will enable Intel to enhance its image as a preeminent building block supplier inside out.
Questions
1. Discuss the role of marketing research in helping Intel devise the Intel Inside and Leap Ahead campaigns. 2. Intel would like to increase the preference for Intel chips among PC users in the individual user as well as business user segments. Define the management-decision problem. 3. Define an appropriate marketing research problem corresponding to the management-decision problem you identified in question 2. 4. Intel would like to gain a better understanding of how businesses select PC and network communications products. What type of research design should be adopted? 5. Discuss the role of the Internet in obtaining secondary data relevant to the marketing research problem you defined in question 3. 6. Discuss the role of qualitative research in understanding how businesses select PC and network communications products. Which qualitative research techniques should be used and why? 7. If a survey is to be conducted to determine businesses selection criterion for choosing PC and network communications products, which survey method should be used and why? 8. Design a questionnaire for determining businesses selection criterion for choosing PC and network communications products.
9. Develop a suitable sampling plan for conducting the survey identified in question 7. 10. If Intel were to conduct mall-intercept interviews to determine consumer preferences for an ultra-light notebook that uses a newly designed chip, describe the fieldwork process that should be used. 11.
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References
1. www.intel.com, accessed January 17, 2011. 2. Intel Labs Aims to Reinvent How People Experience Computing, www. intel.com/ pressroom/archive/releases/20100610corp_sm.htm#story, accessed June 30, 2010. 3. Olga Kharif, Intel Is Kicking Silicon at AMD, BusinessWeek Online (September 24, 2002), www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2002/tc20020924_6824 .htm, accessed April 10, 2008.
If Intel were to conduct a survey in social media to determine consumer preferences for an ultra-light notebook that uses a newly designed chip, what fieldwork-related issues would be involved?