Doing Research in a Foreign Language Market: Tips and Techniques
31st August 2007

Conducting research in another language can be tricky, especially if you speak only your mother tongue. Being a native Danish speaker with knowledge of English, French, German and Portuguese, I have the advantage of understanding written information in Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian. Still, I often struggle when it comes to specialised topics in which I may only know the business terms in either Danish or English. This article outlines some of the lessons I have learned from researching in foreign language markets.

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FUMSI Report: European Research Resources
31st August 2007

Researching Europe can be undertaken on several levels. Starting with the national, one finds significant government, mass media and academic sources. The UK perspective to this report should therefore be seen as representative of a pattern that can be found to a greater or lesser extent throughout all of the EU Member States, once an entry point for a country has been found.

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Business Information Trends: Locking Down and Opening Up Content
31st July 2007

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DIY Detection: Competitive Intelligence for SMEs
31st July 2007

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Search Trails: Back to the Future
31st July 2007

Humans are great at discovering new things, but not always so good at remembering how we found them. Since the first caveman discovered fire, the knowledge has been passed down through the ages. In a way we've all been touched by that first flame and the idea of it is still burning.

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Stay Ahead of the Pack: Specialists from Small Firms Work with Restricted Resources
31st July 2007

I have spent my career in large organisations, undertaking research for specialists. Being well informed is vital for specialists, and I have played a key role in that. However, specialists from small organisations are just as adept at keeping themselves up to date through their tightly focussed research skills.

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Project Handbook Report and Tool Kit: Research and Scoping
30th June 2007

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Looking East: Chinese Research Sources
30th June 2007

Notwithstanding the hype, the endless newspaper articles, the sometimes breathless editorials, China is an economic phenomenon. For a large economy to grow at an average of almost 10% for nearly 30 years is nothing short of remarkable. Yet since 1978 that is exactly what the still ostensibly Communist regime has achieved. It is no wonder that middle class school children are now being 'encouraged' by their parents to stay late and learn Mandarin at after school clubs.

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RSS Update: It's RSS, Jim, but Not as We Know It
30th June 2007

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Calling in the Specialists: Enhancing Your Services with Subcontractors
30th June 2007

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