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Contact: Christy Olson
info@compassqualitativeresearch.com
#7 Waterbury Court
Little Rock, AR 72223

Office phone numbers
501-367-0003 or 800-452-9530
Fax 501-868-6200


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Mission Statement

Partners in navigating your path to discovery by providing global product and consumer understanding.
  • We specialize in developing geographies and markets.
Key areas of expertise
  • Global consumer research, particularly in the developing world

  • Ethnographic/observational studies in homes and marketplaces

  • Small scale and exploratory research, pilot studies

  • Understanding the link between products and consumers, especially during the product development process

  • Focus groups, mini-groups, one-on-one interviews
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About Us
  • Broad range of experience in life sciences research (biotechnology, microbiology, analytical chemistry, genetics, veterinary medicine, water resources and dairy science)

  • Sixteen year career in Research and Development at Procter & Gamble, with a wide variety of assignments in several business areas including New Business Ventures, Health Care, Feminine Protection, and Corporate Research.

  • While at P&G, acquired key skills to enable the product development process by understanding the link between new product ideas, technology and consumers. Gained extensive experience designing, conducting and analyzing qualitative research, both in the US and internationally, to leverage new technologies and consumer products. Worked on a number of teams that evaluated and built new business opportunities, both in developed markets and for consumers in the developing world.

  • Retired from P&G in 2002, and then "un-retired" to work in social science research in the public interest.

  • Founded Compass Qualitative Research, Inc. in 2003.


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