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Evaluating the Use of Synthetic Data

This year's recent "Road to TMRE" virtual event featured an insightful panel on, "Consumer Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence: The Showdown of t...
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Weighing the Potential of Synthetic Data

With advancements in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, the questions swirling around synthetic data continue to grow in the ins...

Sustainability Myth #10: Sustainability Isn’t Enough to Transform a Brand

As sustainability has reached an inflection point with consumers across industries, many brands and retailers want to capitalize on their sustainabili...
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Sustainability Myth #9: Consumer Expectations for Sustainability are Only in Food & Fashion

One of the primary jobs of insight professionals is to unearth, socialize, and unite stakeholders around emerging trends that can fundamentally transf...
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Creating New Frontiers with Synthetic Data Solutions

As artificial intelligence technology continues to develop at a rapid pace, the data pipeline has gotten wider and more complex. It's all about the am...
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Sustainability Myth #8: Sustainable Solutions Are Only for High-Income, Luxury Shoppers

Historically, high-income, luxury shoppers were the early adopters of sustainable solutions. This was driven by a combination of their environmental a...
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Sustainability Myth #7: Gen Z is Driving Sustainable Change

Now that Gen Z is coming of age and flexing their buying power and influence, a common misconception is that they will be the generation that will ush...
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Sustainability Myth #6: Consumers Are Not Willing to Pay More for Sustainability

Over the past two decades, I have never left a meeting with a brand or retailer without someone asking me the question, "will consumers pay more for s...

Sustainability Myth #5: Certifications Are the Best Way to Communicate Sustainability to Consumers

Brands and retailers who are overwhelmed at the complexities of sustainable product messaging are often tempted to leverage third-party certifications...

Sustainability Myth #4: Messaging Sustainable Solutions to Consumers is too Complex

Over the last 15 years, one of the biggest myths I have encountered from marketing teams at the world's largest brands and retailers is that messaging...