Using Digital Ethnography & Behavioral Science to Avert Employee Strikes

From healthcare facilities to the auto industry and logistics giants like UPS, employee strikes have been disrupting services and drawing attention to workplace issues. These incidents raise a crucial question: Could these strikes have been prevented? Feedback believes they could, through the strategic application of behavioral science and digital ethnography. The Intersection of Behavioral Science […]

From Pizza to Strikes: Listening to and Predicting Workforce Woes

Nurses Strike; Source: Austin Chronicle

Take a look at the photo associated with this article and the front sign: “We need a bathroom break, not a pizza party!” We have been tracking nurse sentiment for over a decade but it was three years ago when we started seeing the burnout flags and the use of, “pizza” as an artifact of […]

Big Data vs. Thick Data: The Road to Data-Driven Marketing

Feedback’s Dean Browell and Optum’s Danny Fell have been speaking on “thick data” at conferences this year and the important concept is featured in a special article at   eHealthcare Strategy & Trends. “…marketers shouldn’t overlook the incredibly powerful qualities of qualitative or “thick” data that deliver rich, deep insights and meaning that quantitative data often […]

Feedback 101: What is Qualitative Research?

To put it bluntly, qualitative research is research that yields data not based on numbers. Qualitative research values rich descriptions and inputs from both researcher and participant alike. It’s used to uncover a wide range of behaviors, thoughts, opinions, trends, etc. The research types tend to be unstructured (or partly so) so that participants can […]

Bringing Behavioral Science to the C-Suite

From the Desk of the CEO:We have lost count of how many times in the past year we’ve had conversations with C-suite leaders who are by their own admission uncertain, frustrated, and guessing as to the changes – sometimes radical changes – they are dealing with in three critical stakeholder groups: Internal Stakeholders: Employees, Potential […]

The Peril of Stale Personas

If there is one type of work we love doing that is the most crucial, it might be creating or updating personas or segmentation. If your personas are 3+ years old (and especially pre-pandemic), that should be a massive warning sign that you are basing decisions on severely outdated data. Another red flag: if any […]

Top 5 Recruitment and Retention Warning Signs

Turnover is high, morale is mercurial, and the annual employee survey struggles to get meaningful responses (or responses at all)… sound familiar? In our research of workforces all over the world we’ve found the following top five warning signs in the behavior: #1 They Say the Quiet Part Out LoudGoing back in time isn’t an […]

B2B and Social Listening: The Secret Advantage

Often when we think of social listening and online behavior we immediately conjure visions of consumer social media and TikTok-scrolling teens – but social media, broadly, has also been the domain of B2B audiences for decades. That’s right – decades. For much of that Feedback has been finding and drawing insights from B2B audiences for […]

Feedback 101: How to choose the right research method

Choosing the right research method can be tricky as no two research methods produce exactly the same type of results. For example, focus groups can be a cost-effective way to gather data and observe unique phenomena and information (such as participant reactions) that other methods can’t replicate. They can be time-consuming – most Focus Groups […]