Future Marketing Landscape Explored at AMA Boston Career Event

At the AMA Boston’s “The Future Marketing Landscape and Its Impact on Careers” event held at Microsoft’s Nerd Center, three leading marketing career experts spoke on trends in market research, revenue marketing, and hiring and compensation: Jeffrey Henning, Founder and President of Researchscape International, Mark Emond, President of Demand Spring, and Eric DiChiara, Vice President of the Creative Group. 

Henning spoke of the lifespan of market research, saying that it “is not dead”, and will be around “as long as humanity does.” Looking at the two sides of the market research coin, quantitative and qualitative, he compared how each operate, especially with automation in market research a predominate item. “Quantitative research will become so highly automated that anyone can do it,” he said. He continued on, “Qualitative research is here to stay; given its great computational complexity, it will not be highly automated in the future.”  

You can read more of what Henning, along with Emond and DiChiara, had to say about their respective topics at AMA Boston.

Author Notes:

Jeffrey Henning

Jeffrey Henning, IPC is a professionally certified researcher and has personally conducted over 1,400 survey research projects. Jeffrey is a member of the Insights Association and the American Association of Public Opinion Researchers. In 2012, he was the inaugural winner of the MRA’s Impact award, which “recognizes an industry professional, team or organization that has demonstrated tremendous vision, leadership, and innovation, within the past year, that has led to advances in the marketing research profession.” In 2022, the Insights Association named him an IPC Laureate. Before founding Researchscape in 2012, Jeffrey co-founded Perseus Development Corporation in 1993, which introduced the first web-survey software, and Vovici in 2006, which pioneered the enterprise-feedback management category. A 35-year veteran of the research industry, he began his career as an industry analyst for an Inc. 500 research firm.