Digital Ethnography: Empowering Leadership With Fast, Adaptive Human-Centered, Tech-Fluent Insights
Urgency to arm organizational leadership with “data-driven” decision-making is all around, and even more abundant are the data solutions rising every day to meet that need – and while these engagement dashboards, analytic models, AI tools, and other tech answers that oversaturate the business intelligence space are undoubtedly a big part of the puzzle, one […]
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 […]
Feedback Announces Internship Program with Purdue Anthropology
Digital ethnography pioneers Feedback and Purdue University’s Department of Anthropology are proud to announce a new internship program beginning fall of 2023. This paid program will feature two interns who will receive the specialized training for conducting digital ethnographic research as well as work directly on healthcare-focused Feedback clients for a semester. Feedback’s extensive 14-year […]
Shaping the Future of Education: Unleashing the Power of Digital Ethnography
In the ever-changing landscape of education, understanding the needs, behaviors, and aspirations of students and educators is crucial for delivering impactful learning experiences. Traditional research methods often fall short in capturing the nuances and complexities of the education ecosystem. However, there is a transformative approach that can revolutionize how educational institutions operate and drive student […]
From Pizza to Strikes: Listening to and Predicting Workforce Woes
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 […]