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Creative Research Techniques:
Developing New Insights
Creative Research Creative Research Techniques:Techniques:
Developing New InsightsDeveloping New Insights
Sheila KeeganSheila KeeganCampbell Keegan LtdCampbell Keegan Ltd
www.campbellkeegan.comwww.campbellkeegan.com
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Introductions
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What is research?
Do we uncover research findingsorDo we create research outcomes?
…… or both?
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Exercise 1
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My position is…..
Research outcomes are created, but they have to be grounded in shared ‘reality’
Research and creativity are part of the same process
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and…
The ultimate role of research is to help clients make business/organisational decisions using whatever research methodologies are appropriate and justifiable
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Traditional research focuses on:
• Gathering data• Testing hypotheses• Rational, verbal responses• Collating findings• Drawing conclusions• Implementing results
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This assumes that:• People are conscious of, and in
control of, their thoughts and actions• They can adequately express and
explain their behaviour• Emotions/feeling/physiology have
little impact
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In reality
• As human beings we are complex, contradictory, often unfathomable
• Influenced by context, mood, conflicting needs, hormones etc
• Largely unaware of what drives and motivates us
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Recent research emphasises this…
• We cannot make rational decisions without emotional input; we react and then think (Damasio)
• Low level processing (Earls)• “We think in the cognitive unconscious
95% of the time” (Zaltsman)etc., etc.
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So………………….
Given this, how can we even attempt to understand people’s drives and needs and make sense of them in a way that is of use to our clients?
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…The elephant in the dark!!
…. The iceberg
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Exercise 2
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We need to start from where people are…
• Accept the messiness & contradiction
• Understand that emotion plays a large part in thinking/behaviour
• Go beyond the verbal• Acknowledge that the researcher
is integral; the ‘creative director’
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Where to then?
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Creative Research exists on many levels:
1. A way of thinking and ‘being’2. How we define the research ‘problem’3. Methodological approaches4. Enabling and psychographic techniques5. How we communicate the outcomes
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But……
Unless the methodology and techniques are adopted within a creative orientation to research, the outcome is likely to be mechanistic
“What psycho-graphic techniques do you use, then?”
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A creative way of being“Creative behaviour is that which
demonstrates uniqueness and value in its product. Creativity is thus a function of knowledge, imagination and evaluation. Without knowledge there obviously can be no productive creativity.”
Sidney Parnes
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A creative way of ‘being’• Curiosity, awareness • Reflection, reflexivity; challenging self• Openness to other ideas• Deferred judgement (incubation)• Making connections, using ‘knowledge filters’• Tolerating ambiguity and diversity• Working with imperfect ‘data’, developing
knowledge
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Exercise 3
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A creative way of ‘being’
“In modern commercial research, the mind of the researcher has finally been acknowledged as admissible data. Prior knowledge, pragmatism, experience are all robust grist to the ‘holistic’ research”
Virginia ValentineSemiotic Solutions
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A creative way of being
This means developing self awareness, emotional intelligence, critical faculties, creative discipline as essential research skills
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A creative way of being
“When someone once asked Leonardo da Vinci what his greatest accomplishment was, he replied, “Leonardo da Vinci!”
Sidney Parnes
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How we define the problem
“The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.”
Albert Einstein
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How we define the problem
• Too often we accept the client’s definition of the problem
• But it is difficult to see clearly from ‘inside’
• We have a useful research role in helping our clients to explore and then decide on problem definition
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How we define the problem
Re-defining by:Asking “Why?”By a broader restatementChanging the verbBroadening the problemWording the problem more effectively
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Exercise 4
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Exercise 5
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Methodological Approaches
Starting afresh:Who do we need to talk to? Talk to first?Where do we find them? Convene them?What might we need to understand?What environment/s are we most likely to develop this understand?
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Methodological Approaches
• All methodologies can be used/interpreted creatively
• None are ‘better’ than others – they just differ in appropriateness
• Beware of fashion! Lots of really good work has been achieved in focus groups
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Methodological approaches
• But, context is important – what context/s are most likely to give you the understanding you need?
• How best to relate to your research participants?
• Can you develop material which will help your client understand their market?
• Should you involve clients in the research process?
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Exercise 6
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Methodological approaches
• I will concentrate on two approaches
• The creative content can be adapted to most other methodologies
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Methodological Approaches
• Creative Workshops
• Breakthrough Events
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Creative Workshops
• Forum specifically for developing new ideas and directions
• May be a mix of ‘consumers’, clients, ‘creatives’
• Positioned as ‘creative session’ not research
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Creative WorkshopsRecruitment is keyHeterogeneity is usually bestParticipants screening for ‘creativity’Prepare people for creative participationIt needs time and space (3+ hours)Structure is paramount
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Creative WorkshopsConditions for the Workshop:
Psychological SafetyPsychological FreedomChanging the frame of referenceIncubation; deferred judgementClear structure
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Structure:Getting to know youFinding a voiceDefining the problemGenerating as many ideas as possibleBuilding on other peoples ideasDeveloping, screening, short-listing
Creative Workshops
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Breakthrough Events• Day long events• More psychologically demanding• Team of facilitators• Environment is critical• Participants often emotionally
challenged• Usually need psychological expertise
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Breakthrough Events• Preparatory activities, pre-event• More thorough screening• Recognise that this will affect people• Structure and flexibility essential• Importance of satisfactory closure
for participants
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Enabling & Psycho-graphic Techniques
• Getting beyond the rational• Accessing the less accessible• Expressing embarrassing or anti-
social views• Exploring the personal in a social
context• Offering a structure to make it
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When are they useful?
• To give a fresh perspective on heavily researched areas
• Looking for new directions/ideas• When there’s limited time/access• To provide more holistic
understanding for client
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Range of techniques• Enormous• Can be very simple or very complex• Usage should be dictated by the
research situation, i.e. not prescriptive
• Work best when participants interpret/work with them
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Projective Questioning
Taking the focus off:‘Me’The presentRational explanations
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Projective Questioning
• What would X think of that?• What do think it will be like in 10
years time?• What would your ideal be?
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Word Association
Disrupting causal associations:Encourages spontaneitySilliness promotes creativityIntroduces emotion, non-obvious linkse.g. ‘forced coupling’
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Exercise 7
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Word Association• List ten uses of a brick in 1 minute• How are a banana and a nail similar?• Round Robin associations to ‘bread’• Card sort product attributes• Colour/smell/taste etc associated
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Sentence Completion
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Sentence completion
If I had a million pounds……..When I stop work……..By the end of this year I want……The best thing about Smarties……I hate/love washing up because….
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Brand Personalities
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Brand Personalities
What would an X car/man/dog be like?What would they wear?What job would he/she do?So, why do you say this?What does this mean?
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Brand Mapping
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Brand Mapping• How can different brands be
positioned in relation to each other?• What do they share/how do they
differ?• What are the attributes by which
they are measured?
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Thought Bubbles
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C Vs/Obituaries
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Exercise 8
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Life Graphs
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Psycho-Drawing
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Exercise 9
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Psycho-Drawing• You need to be confident and
reassuring• Only ask people to do things you
would do yourself• Stress artistic ability is not relevant• Get people to explain their drawings
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Mood Boards/Picture Sorts
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Mood boards/picture sorts
• Best if people do it in groups• Monitor; make sure people are
engaged. If not, encourage/join in• Keep up the pace; don’t allow too long• Have a spokesperson, but allow
others to add alternative interpretations
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Role Playing
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Exercise 10
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Role Play• Only to be used when people are
comfortable/relaxed• Be precise about what you want them
to do, e.g. you are bank manager and you are customer, discussing loans
• Make sure spectators contribute, encourage, take turns
• Use role play as prelude to discussion
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Health Warning• It’s easy to get carried away with
projectives; they are only tools to aid understanding and communication
• Sometimes they ‘work’, sometimes they don’t. If they don’t, change tack
• The facilitator needs to decide whether to use them, in situ
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How we communicate the outcomes?
• Unless we can communicate our thinking, feeling and experience to our clients in a way that they can ‘own’ and carry on developing, we have not done our job.
• It is not easy!
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How we communicate the outcomes
• ‘Presentation’ is about weaving a story which is engaging, relevant, plausible and leads somewhere…
• The researcher is the actor• The research materials help
illustrate and build the plot – and the denouement
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How we communicate the outcomes
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How we communicate the outcomes:
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How we communicate the outcomes
• Think beyond ‘presentation’• Is a Workshop more appropriate?• How can you engage/involve clients?• Can you work with them in developing
the strategy?• Can you snowball the research within
the organisation?
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And finally….Don’t forget that creative research
involves hard work, structure, reflection, connection, collaboration & intellectual rigour as a bedrock
Insight is (maybe) the final reward
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Further readingDamasio, A. The feeling of what happens Vintage 2000De Bono, E. Lateral Thinking Pelican 1970Earls, M. Welcome to the Creative Age Wiley 2002Ereaut, G. Analysis & interpretation in
qualitative market research Sage 2002Gordon, W. Good thinking: a guide
to qualitative research Admap 1999Gordon, W. & Langhmaid, R Qualitative Market Research Gower 1988Heath, R. The Hidden Power of Admap Monograph No 7
Advertising 2001Holmes, C. & Keegan S. Current & Developing Creative
Research Methods in NPD MRS Conference 1983Langmaid R. & Andrews Breakthrough Zone Wiley 2003Parnes, S.J/ Creative Behaviour Guidebook Scribners 1967