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Research's Ripple Effect
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The View From The President's Chair
From Market Probe CEO/President, T.R. Rao
The line between research and consulting is blurring as we look to the future. Researchers are increasingly asked not just to obtain and analyze data - traditional components of our jobs - but also to help our clients integrate information and deploy the appropriate strategies and solutions to their business problems. As a result, the very definition of our profession is expanding.
This is an exciting time to be working in our industry. At Market Probe,
we see ourselves as leading edge providers, experts in developing the analytic
tools and cutting-edge techniques necessary to yield information that our
clients find easy to act on. Many new technologies that are the focus of
our creative efforts involve the Web, as our clients are becoming more interested
in new ways to utilize the Internet for information-gathering as well as
reporting, presenting, implementing and learning.
Part of being in research means participating in a perpetual balancing act. On the one hand, we must build confidence in our clients by clearly addressing their individual requirements. On the other, it is crucial that we carefully consider how information will be received by our clients' management staff. We must constantly be mindful that our clients have their own internal clients to please.
It's most important to view the world of information as an evolutionary one; the excitement of this business is that it is always changing in response to new marketplace demands. To be truly satisfied in this field you must consider yourself an innovator, up for the challenge. We at Market Probe have consistently shown that we enthusiastically meet the challenges of our industry.

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