March 28, 2024

3: How to balance human-machine collaboration in market research

3: How to balance human-machine collaboration in market research

Join Host James Turner as he chats with research revolutionary Caroline Frankum about striking the balance in the fast-paced world of research technology. 
Caroline is a multi-award-winning CEO with a high level of expertise in PE-backed transformation and M&A. She amplifies expertise with Tech and AI to deliver unprecedented commercial growth and ensures diversity is a business imperative for optimizing social and business value. She is part of the Executive Team at Kantar. 
You don’t want to miss this conversation.

They discuss: 

  • The challenges in the industry like the fight for respondents' attention, data privacy legislation, and the increase in fraud following the shift to online research due to COVID-19.
  • Kantar Profiles' initiatives to address these challenges, including the efforts to improve respondent engagement through gamification and mobile-friendly experiences.
  • The balance between human expertise and technology in market research, with a focus on using AI and machine learning to enhance and automate processes while maintaining the human element in research design and analysis.
  • The potential future impact of AI on market research, including synthetic panels, and the importance of ensuring data quality and representativeness.
  • The evolving roles and skills needed within market research companies, with an emphasis on the importance of both technical skills (e.g., data science, AI) and emotional intelligence (EQ) in leading teams through change.
  • The significance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in building high-performing teams and fostering innovation.

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Caroline Frankum

Global CEO

Caroline is a multi-award-winning CEO with a high-level of expertise in PE-backed transformation, M&A, amplifying expertise with Tech and AI to deliver unprecedented commercial growth, and ensuring diversity is a business imperative for optimising social and business value.
She is part of the Executive Team at Kantar – a world-leading data and human insights agency helping the world's most valuable brands shape their brand future by better understanding people and driving sustainable, equitable growth. She was part of the team who secured Kantar’s $billion deal with Private Equity firm Bain Capital in 2019, and, as Global CEO of the Kantar Profiles Division is also responsible for running Kantar’s multi-million-dollar first party data division that powers insight delivery and analytics for world-leading Consumer, Media, Tech, Publisher, Consultancy, Healthcare, Market Research and e-commerce brands by providing compliant, programmatic access to over 170m+ consumers across the globe.

Caroline joined Kantar in 2016 to positively disrupt the established, but traditional Market Research and Panel industry with Technology. She has led the bold, creative, fast transformation of the Kantar Profiles Division into a leading global player in the ~$3.4 billion panel sourcing sector over the past 4 years by completely transforming the business to be more tech and AI-enabled and data-informed.

Prior to joining Kantar Caroline worked client-side for 15 years in influential roles at leading Media companies, including: Classic FM, The Mirror Group, Five, Di… Read More