Technology & the future of market research @Festival of #NewMR By Richard Collins Business, Miscellaneous, Social 6th April 2021 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter We were very proud to see that Askia’s very own Jérôme Sopoçko was one of the speakers at the inaugural French-language #NewMR event. The event was on Monday 12th of April. The event was run by the capable hands of Anne-Sophie Damelincourt, founder of Blue Lemon Insight & Strategy. Anne-Sophie discussed technology and the future of market research with Jérôme. A recording of the session is available here.
An interesting work day! By Richard Collins Miscellaneous 15th January 2019 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter “Dad, what did you do at work today?”. “Well today I climbed a ladder on the very edge of a massive cliff above the sea and took pictures of a man dressed as Theresa May.” Why did you do that”? A very good question. A very good question indeed! In one of the more remarkable days of a 30 year career in market research, it was time for the Askia greetings card photo shoot. The card has been a tradition 10 years in the making. For those not…
Askia Gallery 2018 By Richard Collins Miscellaneous 20th November 2018 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter It’s been an exciting and extremely busy year for Askia in 2018. A few photos were taken along the way and some of them are too good not to share. Here are some of our favourites… This year we have been busy creating and launching the Iris dashboard design platform. So that meant a whole host of chances to team up (and dress up) with our friends at E-Tabs to present the solution to the industry. Jerome kept the E-Tabs theme going this year, by…
Askia – Christmas cards for surveys By Paul Nevin Miscellaneous 26th January 2016 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter Rather than sending out cliché christmas cards, for the last 8 years we’ve had the pleasure of crafting… well, different cards. These are generally the result of too much alcohol, very long meetings as well as the fact that Jérôme & Patrick like cross-dressing! Each year, our founding members therefore alternate for their our pleasure. Below are all seven beauties in chronological order: 2008 This first christmas card was designed in the midst of the 2008 credit crisis and featured Patrick as a half-naked Santa Claus: 2009 This second christmas card was sent out…
Removing bugs… By Paul Nevin Miscellaneous 17th October 2014 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter “If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.” Edsger Dijkstra
Software design By Paul Nevin Miscellaneous 12th September 2014 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter “There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.” Charles Antony Richard Hoare
