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Cuando la gente me pregunta, ¿y tú exactamente a qué te dedicas? Acostumbro a decir que intento transformar la información en conocimiento…….. Casi nada.

The reality is that companies are exposed every day to managing an indecent amount of information with which to formulate the strategy that must somehow lead them to success, that is, maximize their profit.

As Manuel Castells states “we have to get used to the idea that this “new economy” is based on information and knowledge. It is characterized because it adds value, generates productivity and achieves competitiveness on the basis of information and knowledge, through a new information processing capacity in terms of speed and complexity. We are capable of using any information process in real time.

Desde la investigación de mercados intentamos ayudar en esta tarea mediante el análisis de información que puede provenir de diferentes fuentes (entrevistas personales, telefónicas, online, en profundidad, reuniones de grupo, etnográficos, entrevistas internas con personas de la organización, información de blogs, etc, etc, ).

Information is our raw material and if we do not take care of it or pamper it, its subsequent analysis has no meaning.

Field work, whether qualitative or quantitative, is a complicated task and not always free from criticism since it is part of the last link in the value chain of our sector.

It is complicated and arduous to find field providers who can undertake, with certain guarantees of success, investigations that have a strategic component or, on a qualitative level, certain difficulty in recruiting.

It must also be said that there are two components that do not help the field quality excessively and that feed off each other like a vicious circle.

El primer componente es que los precios de la obtención de información han permanecido casi invariables en los últimos 5-10 años, hagamos un ejercicio sencillo, ¿qué presupuesto teníamos hace 5 años para una entrevista telefónica a población general de 15 minutos de duración en el 2004 y ahora en el 2009? Nos sorprenderíamos de la respuesta.

The second component corresponds to the qualification of the personnel who carry out the field work. If prices remain unchanged, we cannot hope to obtain extremely qualified personnel who do their work with a motivation specific to the quality of a service.

These two mutually reinforcing problems make it essential to carry out exhaustive quality control in addition to what the field company itself should carry out. This quality process should be based on the following parameters:

1. Supervisión telefónica de cómo mínimo el 25% del trabajo de campo de cada entrevistador, es importante la coletilla “de cada entrevistador” ya que, para que tengamos claro la calidad del campo debemos supervisar cada uno de los entrevistadores que intervienen en él. No me sirve la idea de que “se ha supervisado el 20% del trabajo de campo” si esta idea es global y no particular por entrevistador.

2. Una vez tenemos el fichero de datos, hacer una consistencia exhaustiva del mismo, no tan sólo desde el punto de vista lógico o numérico sino desde el punto de vista de la calidad. Con un simple sumatorio de algunas variables podemos determinar si existen entrevistas repetidas o no. Analizando los Ns/Nr o preguntas en blanco podemos determinar si existe un mismo entrevistador que sistemáticamente “pasa” de rellenar algunas preguntas. Repasando la codificación de respuestas abiertas podemos determinar la calidad de vaciado de las mismas, etc,etc

The raw material is what determines the strategy since without it we could not analyze and we could not design strategies, therefore, let us pay the maximum attention to it and move on from beach bars that can offer us "hard at four pesetas", not There is such a thing as “cheap” field work and if it is too cheap, let us doubt it since we are going to lead our clients to strategic ruin.

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