MARKETNG 3006 - Delivering Customer Insights

North Terrace Campus - Semester 1 - 2022

This course will provide students with an in-depth understanding of the practice of market research, to identify and deliver customer insights. Working in a group, students will be conduct a practical market research project; working through all stages of the market research process including research design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of findings. Students will be required to understand and apply both qualitative and quantitative research techniques and will present the findings from their research in both written and oral formats.

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Course Details

Course Code	MARKETNG 3006
Course	Delivering Customer Insights
Coordinating Unit	Marketing
Term	Semester 1
Level	Undergraduate
Location/s	North Terrace Campus
Units	3
Contact	Up to 3 hours per week
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange	Y
Prerequisites	MARKETNG 1001
Incompatible	MARKETNG 2505
Assessment	Exams/assignments/tests/tutorial work as prescribed at first lecture

Course Staff

Course Coordinator: Amelie Burgess

Course Coordinator: Amelie Burgess
Location: Room 10.19, 10 Pulteney Street
email: amelie.burgess@adelaide.edu.au

Consultation hours: By appointment (please send me an email to book an appointment in advance)

Course Tutors: Lachlan Schomburgk email: lachlan.schomburgk@adelaide.edu.au

Georgia Nicholls email: g eorgiamackenzienicholls@gmail.com
Harrison De Picot email: harrisondepicot@adelaide.edu.au

Course Timetable

The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from .

Learning Outcomes

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the market research process and the role of market research in strategic decision-making. There will be a focus on understanding the theoretical components of research design, as well as developing practical skills in data collection, analysis and interpretation. Through practical application within a market research project, students will: 1) design a research project including a sampling and research method, 2) develop a focus group or interview guide and a survey, 3) manage data collection, 4) conduct qualitative and quantitative data analysis, 5) interpret results, and 6) present research findings.

Emphasis will be placed on developing written and oral communication skills for presentation to corporate clients.

Ethical business frameworks will also be reiterated and required to be adopted.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Discuss the managerial importance of market research and its role in marketing strategy
2. Provide a detailed overview of the stages in the market research process
3. Develop a market research design which incorporates appropriate research approaches; including measurement instruments and sampling frames
4. Use contemporary statistical packages to analyse quantitative data
5. Interpret data analysis in the context of the identified business problem
6. Communicate research results in written and oral presentation formats

University Graduate Attributes

No information currently available.
Learning Resources

Required Resources

TEXT BOOK

Marketing Research
(4th Asia-Pacific Edition) by Zikmund, D’Alessandro, Winzar, Lowe, B., and Babin.
Published by Cengage Learning Australia, Melbourne, 2014.
ISBN: 9780170369824.

An e-book version may also be purchased. Previous editions of this book can also be used.

Course Outline and Powerpoint slides (available from MyUni course site).

Recommended Resources

Data analysis:
The following text is not required but may be useful in completing some of the course activities.
Pallant, J. (2013). SPSS Survival Manual: A Step by Step Guide to Data Analysis Using IBM Spss. McGraw-Hill. BSL: 005.369 S771ZP.

Qualitative research and data analysis:
Berg, B.L. (2001). Qualitative research methods for the social sciences. Boston: Allyn & Bacon BSL: 300.72 B493q.8.
Morgan, D. L. (1998). The focus group guidebook. Focus group kit 1. London: Sage Publications, Inc. BSL: 001.433 M847f.

QUALTRICS
The data collection software that we use can be found at www.adelaide.qualtrics.com. DO NOT GO TO QUALTRICS THROUGH GOOGLE as it will cause account problems. You can use your student ID to build a Qualtrics account.You will be given instructions no how to do this in tutorials.

Online Learning

Both the MyUni course site and the textbook website are valuable resources for this course. MyUni will be the primary form of (non-class) contact. You will find all of the lectures recorded and uploaded to MyUni, as well as a series of self check questions which are extremely valuable for crystallising the concepts covered in lectures and tutorials.
Learning & Teaching Activities

Learning & Teaching Modes

This course entails a weekly 1.5 hour lecture and one 1.5 hour tutorial per week. The audio of lectures will be uploaded weekly on MyUni.

Tutorial classes will be held weekly commencing in Week 2. YOU MUST ATTEND THE FIRST TUTORIAL – we will allocate teams and discuss research briefs in that tute. Students wishing to swap between tutorial classes after this time are required to present their case to the Course Coordinator, but should be aware that such a request may not be approved.

Workload

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

The University expects full-time students (i.e. those taking 12 units per semester) to devote a total of 48 hours per week to their
studies. This means that you are expected to commit approximately 9 hours for a three-unit course of private study outside of your regular classes.Students in this course are expected to attend all lectures throughout the semester plus one tutorial class each week.

Learning Activities Summary

Week 1: Market Research and the Research Process
Textbook Chapter 1 & 2 No tutorial

Week 2: Primary and Secondary Research
Textbook Chapter 4
Tutorials Begin and groups formed – See MyUni Modules for relevant activities
Due Dates and Key Tasks: Quiz 1 Due Sunday 13 March 2022 11.59pm
Find group members and begin to brain storm a brand, a research problem and what you wish to uncover.

Week 3: The Nature of Qualitative Research
Textbook Chapter 3
See MyUni Modules for relevant activities
Due Dates and Key Tasks: Group membership and topic selected is to be confirmed.

Week 4: Analysing and Visualising Qualitative Data
See MyUni Modules for relevant activities
Due Dates and Key Tasks: Interview guides need to be started .Quiz 1 Due Sunday 27 March 2022 11.59pm

Week 5: Quantitative Research: Measurement and Questionnaire Design
Textbook Chapters: 5, 8 & 9
See MyUni Modules for relevant activities
Due Dates and Key Tasks: Interview guides need to be finalised and interviews conducted. Qualitative data to begin analysis and report writing.

Week 6: Sampling and Data Collection
Textbook Chapter 10
See MyUni Modules for relevant activities
Due Dates and Key Tasks: Develop and finalise questionnaires (quantitative surveys).
Assignment (30%): Qualitative Report –needs to be submitted via Turnitin by 9.00am on 4 April 2022 (Monday).
Quiz 3 Due Sunday 10 April 2022 11.59pm

Mid Semester Break Assignment (5% formative):
Questionnaire Design – needs to be submitted via Turnitin by 9.00am on 11 April 2022 (Monday). Begin collecting data after you receive feedback from your tutor. Most groups will need to make changes.

Week 7: Data Preparation and Introduction to SPSS
Textbook Chapters: 11 & 12
See MyUni Modules for relevant activities
Due Dates and Key Tasks: Begin finalising data collection.

Week 8: Data Analysis I: Descriptive Statistics
Textbook Chapter 12
See MyUni Modules for relevant activities
Due Dates and Key Tasks: Students’ to prepare datafile for analysis and commence basic analysis of their own data
Quiz 4 Due Sunday 8 May 2022 11.59pm

Week 9: Data Analysis II: Tests of Differences
Textbook Chapters: 12 & 13
See MyUni Modules for relevant activities
Students’ analysis of their own data

Week 10 Data Analysis III: Tests of Associations
Textbook Chapter 14
See MyUni Modules for relevant activities
Due Dates and Key Tasks: Students’ analysis of their own data
Quiz 5 Due Sunday 22 May 2022 11.59pm

Week 11: Interpretation and Report Writing
Textbook Chapter16
See MyUni Modules for relevant activities
Due Dates and Key Tasks: Students’ analysis of their own data
Beginning report writing

Week 12: Course Review
ALL CHAPTERS MENTIONED IN COURSE
See MyUni Modules for relevant activities
Due Dates and Key Tasks: Note group presentations will occur in this tutorial Note the Quantitative Group Report will be due during SWOTVAC (6 June 2022 Monday 9:00am). Presentations due by the start of your Week 12 tutorial and will be presented in random order during the tutorial.

Specific Course Requirements

This course requires you to learn the principles of market research, but you are also required to practically apply those principles. So, there are lectures per week, where we talk about what is in the text, but your major continuous assessment involves conducting a piece of market research. We will allocate the groups in week 2. We don’t want you swapping around. In groups of four or five, you will be required to conduct a piece of market research, involving both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

TURNITIN FOR ASSIGNMENTS
Assignments are to be submitted via Turnitin using the MyUni site. Due dates for each assessment are specified in the course outline. All submissions need to occur on the specified date by 11.59 pm. For group assessments, only one person per group is to submit via Turnitin on behalf of the group members.

The University's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:

Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
Assessment must maintain academic standards.

Assessment Summary

Due to the current COVID-19 situation modified arrangements have been made to assessments to facilitate remote learning and teaching. Assessment details provided here reflect recent updates.

Assessment Task	Weighting
Assignment #1: Essay Question (Individual)	10%
Assignment #2: Qualitative Report (Individual)	20%
Assignment #3: Data Analysis and Visualisation Report (Individual)	20%
Assignment # 4: Presentation (Individual)	10%
Assignment # 5: Final Group Project Report	30%
Tutorial Assessment (Individual)	10%

Assessment Related Requirements

To gain a pass for this course, a mark of at least 45% must be obtained on the examination as well as a total of at least 50% overall. Students not achieving the minimum exam mark will be awarded no more than 49%
Supplementary exams will be offered to students who achieve 45-49% in the exam in accordance with University policy.
Students achieving less than 45% for the exam – regardless of overall course mark – will receive a fail. This is when the student has shown nowhere near enough understanding of the course in the exam.
All assignments are to be lodged prior to the due date and time. A late assignment where no extension has been granted will be penalised by a reduction of 5% of the mark given for each day that it is late.
Extensions to the due date of individual assessment may be granted under special circumstances. An extension request or application for supplementary exam based on illness or compassionate grounds must include the "Supporting Statement / Certification Form" that is page 4 of the Supplementary Assessment application available at: Students applying for an extension based on medical reasons must visit their medical practitioner, with that approved University form, and have the medical practitioner complete it. A normal doctor's certificate will not be accepted.
Legible hand-writing and the quality of English expression are considered to be integral parts of the assessment process. Marks may be deducted for poor hand-writing and grammatical expression.
Students in this course are not permitted to take a DICTIONARY (English or English-Foreign) into the examination. In this course, the use of calculators in the examination is not permitted. Also, students are not permitted to bring mobile phones into the examination.
Assessment rubrics will be provided in the tutorials and posted on MyUni.

Assessment Detail

Please see MyUni for details on Assessment tasks

Submission

Presentation of Assignments
• Please retain a copy of all assignments submitted.
• All group assignments must be attached to a ‘Group Assignment Cover Sheet’, which must be signed and dated by all group members before submission – even for electronic submissions. All team members are expected to contribute approximately equally to a group assignment.
• Hardcopy submission of Assignments should be made to your tutor prior to your scheduled presentation (inability to reach your tutor is not an acceptable reason for not submitting).
• Assignments must be submitted via Turnitin at the end of the allotted time in tutorial.

Lecturers can refuse to accept assignments, which do not have a signed acknowledgement of the University’s policy on plagiarism. This is a legal document that must be included with every submission.

A copy of the Postgraduate Programs: Communication Skills Guide will have been given to you at the beginning of your program. This guide will assist you structure your assignments. A copy of the guide can also be downloaded from

This publication also provides guidelines on a range of other important communication skills including writing essays and management reports, making oral presentations etc.

In preparing any written piece of assessment for your studies it is important to draw on the relevant ‘literature’ to support critical analysis. Also essential is to reference the literature used. Correct referencing is important because it identifies the source of the ideas and arguments that you present, and sometimes the source of the actual words you use, and helps to avoid the problem of plagiarism. Further information on plagiarism is provided later in this course outline.The Harvard system is widely used in the Business School. Guidelines for the use of this style of referencing can be found in the Communication Skills Guide. Further
assistance with referencing is available from the Faculty’s Learning Support Advisors. The contact details are provided on page 6 of the Communication Skills Guide.

Late Assignment Submission
Students are expected to submit their work by the due date to maintain a fair and equitable system. Extensions will generally only be given for medical or other serious reasons. All requests for extensions must be emailed to the lecturer in charge of the course before the due date. Each request will be assessed on its merits. A late assignment (without prior arrangement) will be penalised at a rate of 5% per day (or part thereof). Submitting your assignment late (with or without an extension) also means you miss the primary marking cycle; it probably will get returned to you a lot later than your classmates get theirs.

Return of Assignments
Lecturersaim to mark and return assignments to students within two (2) weeks ofthe due date with written feedback. Students are responsible for collecting their marked assignments from either their tutorials or lectures. If assignments aren’t collected after two (2) weeks, theassignments will be available at the Student Hub for two (2) weeks. The remaining assignments will only be posted out to the students, if the correct mailing addresses are on the assignments. Assignments for this course will be marked either online or using the hardcopy – your tutor will advise you of his/her preferred marking option.

Course Grading

Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
Grade	Mark	Description
FNS		Fail No Submission
F	1-49	Fail
P	50-64	Pass
C	65-74	Credit
D	75-84	Distinction
HD	85-100	High Distinction
CN		Continuing
NFE		No Formal Examination
RP		Result Pending

Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.

Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.

Final results for this course will be made available through .

Student Feedback

The University places a high priority on approaches to learning and teaching that enhance the student experience. Feedback is sought from students in a variety of ways including on-going engagement with staff, the use of online discussion boards and the use of Student Experience of Learning and Teaching (SELT) surveys as well as GOS surveys and Program reviews.

SELTs are an important source of information to inform individual teaching practice, decisions about teaching duties, and course and program curriculum design. They enable the University to assess how effectively its learning environments and teaching practices facilitate student engagement and learning outcomes. Under the current SELT Policy (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/101/) course SELTs are mandated and must be conducted at the conclusion of each term/semester/trimester for every course offering. Feedback on issues raised through course SELT surveys is made available to enrolled students through various resources (e.g. MyUni). In addition aggregated course SELT data is available.
Student Support
Policies & Guidelines
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