
Opportunity Assessment: E-Waste
When thorough opportunity assessment research is conducted in e-waste, what’s revealed is more complicated than what the top-line U.N. numbers suggest.
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When thorough opportunity assessment research is conducted in e-waste, what’s revealed is more complicated than what the top-line U.N. numbers suggest.

It’s not just a matter of the size of the market, but rather why, and how we should respond, position and innovate to improve market standing, future outcomes, and overall profitability.

It’s not that we caution against including customer survey results in the overall mix of insights, per se. It’s that we urge against relying solely on customer surveys, which is a mistake we’ve seen some make over the years.

As a market research firm, we are seeing more and more clients wanting to understand exactly how AI is impacting a given market or industry sector — and to get a better handle on how that will change in the near and distant future.
Here is what we’re hearing and learning, both through direct conversations with company leadership teams as well as via secondary research and information gathering.

Companies that embark on Predictive Path to Purchase studies often report some combination of increased confidence in their existing marketing strategies coupled with valuable, previously unconsidered insights that become extremely beneficial competitive advantages.
For an in-depth explanation of why Predictive Path to Purchase studies are so important in the modern media landscape, please see our article, “How to Apply ‘Predictive Path to Purchase’ to Better Understand Customer Behavior.”
In this article, we’ll examine Martec’s approach to this methodology.