Institute for International Research

For over 90 years, Forbes has provided business decision makers with predictive and pre-emptive editorial that has a distinct point of view. Our editorial voice attracts a community of bold individuals bound together by an unshakable belief in the spirit of free enterprise. They are entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders who rely on Forbes to help them achieve business and personal success. Forbes: Capitalist Tool.

RSL Communications helps sales organizations with lead generation and sales support. We're best known for BrandBASE, the only online database focused exclusively on the consumer packaged goods industry, containing brand management contacts with unprecedented depth. We also publish PromotionLINK, an advertiser-supported newsletter that announces upcoming tie-in promotion and sponsorship opportunities and execute traditional BTB direct mail campaigns.

"Brandchannel is dedicated to providing the world's leading online exchange about branding. Provoking the dialogue on brands, our free resources include original articles, a continuous news blog and weekly debates, industry expert white papers and global listings of jobs, agencies, and conferences for branding professionals. Join a community of practitioners, thought leaders, and brand enthusiasts from over 120 countries and visit www.brandchannel.com to expand your view.
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Quirk’s Marketing Research Review is the only monthly magazine, e-newsletter and online resource devoted entirely to professionals responsible for conducting, coordinating and purchasing marketing research products and services. Designed to promote the understanding, use and value of marketing research, its free resources include original articles on research techniques, case histories, news, survey findings, global listings for conferences and jobs, discussions and the most complete directories of market research product and service companies. More than 65,000 professionals access Quirk’s resources every month. To get your own FREE access visit

Research Alert is a twice-monthly newsletter delivering research on consumer behavior, attitudes, spending habits and buying preferences. You get the latest data from every sector of the consumer research community from major independent houses to small boutique operations, government agencies, and other valuable sources you may have never known existed! Let Research Alert stretch your research budget by doing the painstaking work for you - acquiring, sifting through, analyzing, and reporting on the best information we can find? - so you can find it quickly and easily, at a fraction of the cost. Subscribe now at www.epmcom.com/RA.

The Deal LLC's Corporate Dealmaker is a business strategy magazine spotlighting best practices at leading companies. Whether it's connecting corporate executives to the leading players behind major corporate acquisitions, joint venture and alliances, or covering topics such as intellectual property, international expansion outsourcing, new product development, governance and post-merger integration, Corporate Dealmaker goes behind the scenes of the most sophisticated deal teams.

MarketResearch.com opens the door to the world’s largest collection of market research. As the single source for continuously updated market intelligence, MarketResearch.com offers more than 130,000 market research reports from over 550 leading global publishers.

Our research specialists save you time and give you unbiased, expert insights so that you can be confident you’re getting the right research every time.

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The Innovise Guys are Gregg Fraley and Doug Stevenson.  They coined the term Innovisation™ to describe a combination of structured problem solving methods and improvisation tools.  Innovisation Tools are more effective than traditional ideation methods in stimulating different thinking in an ideation session.  Gregg and Doug are both trained comedy improvisers and experienced business consultants.  They host a top-rated Innovation podcast -- delivered with a humorous twist. To download, visit http://dainnoviseguys.libsyn.com.  Consider them to facilitate your next ideation session, or to conduct creative problem solving training. Experience cutting edge Innovisation tools for spontaneous thinking within a structured process.  For more information contact: gregg@greggfraley.com.

Shaping Tomorrow exists to help you 'anticipate trends' and 'profit from tomorrow', today! We help busy people and organisations manage risk and uncertainty and create opportunities for growth and profits - today. Our members are engaged in strategic and future thinking, trends intelligence and consumer research, business development, design, marketing, media planning, knowledge and change management. Every day our editors scan and analyse trends worldwide, and upload relevant articles and studies about the future to Shaping Tomorrow. From our UK headquarters we manage this global team of editors, each with a subject specialization. Our information comes from rigorous and continuous physical searches for quality future-related sites. We are trained environmental scanners and trends researchers, not an automated web crawler. We have backgrounds in professional futures, market research, publishing, and senior management roles in many of the industries we cover.

We are an innovation firm focused on helping instill innovation and creativity into the core of organizations. We work with corporations who want to build enduring innovation capabilities and create successful new products, services and communications. While advancing and sharing knowledge about what drives successful innovation, we support the innovation goals and spirit of our clients through internal capabilities benchmarking, training and workshops, new ways to uncover consumer insights and creative problem solving sessions to create new ideas and solutions to your complex challenges.

TREND HUNTER Magazine (www.trendhunter.com) is a multi channel explosion of cool that caters to social leaders, industry professionals, and relentlessly creative individuals. Our edgy content is fueled by a global network of roughly 2,000 Trend Hunters.