RESEARCH & INSIGHTS

5 shifts reshaping research and insights

Understand how behavior, context and AI are redefining the way brands research and make decisions.

Traditional research and insights models were designed for a consumer who answered surveys and behaved as they said they would. That consumer has changed. Culture accelerates, signals multiply, and the gap between what people say and what they do has never been more visible.

“Research at Culture Speed” is a map for navigating that shift: a direct report, built for brand, marketing and consumer intelligence leaders who need to decide with confidence in a market that won’t wait.

62%

of purchase decisions contradict stated intent at the point of sale

89%

of research professionals already use AI regularly or in active experimentation

2.3x

more confidence in positioning decisions among brands with continuous research

The 5 shifts that separate research that describes from research that decides.

01

From stated opinions to observed behavior 

02

From data-richs to context-rich 

03

From observation to co-creation 

04

From AI automation to augmented judgment 

05

From preference testing to strategic validation 

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What you walk away with.

A diagnosis

Clarity on which of the 5 shifts is most urgent for your brand, and where your current research model may be quietly failing.

 

Um vocabulário

The concepts redefining the Research & Insights conversation, to align team, agency and leadership around the same questions.

Data to make the case

Market evidence to support, internally, the evolution of your approach to research and consumer intelligence.

A next step

A concrete path to bring insight closer to the decision, at the speed culture moves.

Built on HumanIS™

The report grows out of CBA B+G’s proprietary approach, which combines three pillars of intelligence: Anthropology in Motion, Augmented Intelligence and Analytical Experience to turn human signals into business decisions.

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