Our Services
Research Strategy and Consulting
Sometimes it is difficult to know what you don’t know. You might know that you need research, but aren’t sure where to start or the best way to generate actionable insights. We can help clarify your research goals and create a strategy for everything from building a single research project to developing a broader research agenda for your organization.
Report Writing and White Papers
Maybe you’ve collected some data points but don’t know what to do with them. Perhaps you have an overly dense document that doesn’t make sense for your organization or clients. We’ll help identify the most important stories to tell, do the writing, and create a report that is relevant and accessible to your audience.
Alternately, if you need to weigh in on a relevant issue, current trend, or cultural moment, we also write issue briefs, articles, and white papers.
Survey Review
The data you collect is only as good as the instruments you use to collect it– too many projects are set-up to fail by the use of flawed surveys. With a survey review, we will seek to understand what you want to know, what data will be most actionable for you organization, and how the findings will be implemented. Then we will review your survey to identify any potential technical, conceptual, or semantic issues with your questions and provide recommendations for resolving those issues and creating a stronger research tool.
Or maybe you just want us to write a survey for you – we’ll do that too.
Messaging and Framing
If you’ve already conducted research but feel stuck and unsure of how to position your findings, we can help understand the best way to frame your research. Maybe you are struggling to extract deeper insights? Or maybe you aren’t seeing how your research is relevant for a broader audience. We will work with you to translate your research in a way that maximizes its impact and articulates real-world applications.
We can also help you understand and respond to the research of other organizations. This might mean identifying weaknesses in their arguments or figuring out how their findings can be used to enhance your business or advocacy efforts.
Cultural Landscape Analysis
Products and ideas don’t just need a market, they need to fit the moment, the cultural mood, speak to the zeitgeist. Do you know where you fit in the moment? Are you part of the cutting edge or the comfortingly familiar? We will examine the cultural landscape and provide you with an understanding of the social mood, the dominant themes and trends that are shaping consumer interests and sentiments, and help you identify where you fit into the social environment.
Full-Scale Research Engagement
Sometimes you need someone to do it all. If you have a research need, an idea that calls for exploration, a question that continues to nag at you, then we can develop and execute a full research project – from conceptualization of your research question to data collection and analysis and report writing. We can also look to see what other research is out there that answers the questions that you have so that you can make evidence-based decisions and arguments.