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    <title>AMS Insights Blog</title>
    <link>https://blog.ams-insights.com</link>
    <description>Stay up-to-date on the market research industry. Read the latest news, events and blog posts from Applied Marketing Science.</description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:47:10 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:date>2025-11-21T14:47:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Featured in MIT Sloan’s Ideas Made to Matter: AMS Leads the Way in the AI for VOC Revolution</title>
      <link>https://blog.ams-insights.com/featured-in-mit-sloans-ideas-made-to-matter-ams-leads-the-way-in-the-ai-for-voc-revolution</link>
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 &lt;a href="https://blog.ams-insights.com/featured-in-mit-sloans-ideas-made-to-matter-ams-leads-the-way-in-the-ai-for-voc-revolution" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"&gt; &lt;img src="https://blog.ams-insights.com/hubfs/MIT%20Sloan%20Article%20-%20AMS%20Supervised%20Finetuned%20LLM%20-%20Blog%20image%20Nov%202025.png" alt="Featured in MIT Sloan’s Ideas Made to Matter: AMS Leads the Way in&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;AI&amp;nbsp;for VOC Revolution" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; 
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;A recent&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/large-language-models-can-help-professionals-identify-customer-needs"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ideas Made to Matter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;article from MIT Sloan highlights new research from MIT and Northwestern showing that an AI model purpose-built for Voice of the Customer (VOC) analysis,&amp;nbsp;and co-developed with Applied Marketing Science (AMS),&amp;nbsp;can match the accuracy of trained human&amp;nbsp;analysts&amp;nbsp;in identifying and classifying customer needs. The AMS team played a key role:&amp;nbsp;supporting the study’s design, providing VOC&amp;nbsp;expertise, and&amp;nbsp;validating&amp;nbsp;the results.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 &lt;a href="https://blog.ams-insights.com/featured-in-mit-sloans-ideas-made-to-matter-ams-leads-the-way-in-the-ai-for-voc-revolution" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"&gt; &lt;img src="https://blog.ams-insights.com/hubfs/MIT%20Sloan%20Article%20-%20AMS%20Supervised%20Finetuned%20LLM%20-%20Blog%20image%20Nov%202025.png" alt="Featured in MIT Sloan’s Ideas Made to Matter: AMS Leads the Way in&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;AI&amp;nbsp;for VOC Revolution" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; 
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;A recent&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/large-language-models-can-help-professionals-identify-customer-needs"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ideas Made to Matter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;article from MIT Sloan highlights new research from MIT and Northwestern showing that an AI model purpose-built for Voice of the Customer (VOC) analysis,&amp;nbsp;and co-developed with Applied Marketing Science (AMS),&amp;nbsp;can match the accuracy of trained human&amp;nbsp;analysts&amp;nbsp;in identifying and classifying customer needs. The AMS team played a key role:&amp;nbsp;supporting the study’s design, providing VOC&amp;nbsp;expertise, and&amp;nbsp;validating&amp;nbsp;the results.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  
&lt;img src="https://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=2773158&amp;amp;k=14&amp;amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.ams-insights.com%2Ffeatured-in-mit-sloans-ideas-made-to-matter-ams-leads-the-way-in-the-ai-for-voc-revolution&amp;amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fblog.ams-insights.com&amp;amp;bvt=rss" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; "&gt;</content:encoded>
      <category>Machine Learning/AI</category>
      <category>Voice of the Customer</category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:43:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://blog.ams-insights.com/featured-in-mit-sloans-ideas-made-to-matter-ams-leads-the-way-in-the-ai-for-voc-revolution</guid>
      <dc:date>2025-11-20T18:43:38Z</dc:date>
      <dc:creator>Juli Lin</dc:creator>
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      <title>How Product Managers Can Gain Competitive Advantage Using Voice of the Customer and AI: Insights from John Mitchell on Product Mastery Now</title>
      <link>https://blog.ams-insights.com/how-product-managers-can-gain-competitive-advantage-using-voice-of-the-customer-and-ai-insights-from-john-mitchell-on-product-mastery-now</link>
      <description>&lt;div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"&gt; 
 &lt;a href="https://blog.ams-insights.com/how-product-managers-can-gain-competitive-advantage-using-voice-of-the-customer-and-ai-insights-from-john-mitchell-on-product-mastery-now" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"&gt; &lt;img src="https://blog.ams-insights.com/hubfs/JM%20Podcast%20Episode%20-%20Nov%202025%20(1200%20x%20627%20px).png" alt="How Product Managers Can Gain Competitive Advantage Using Voice of the Customer and AI: Insights from John Mitchell&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;Product Mastery Now" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/div&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ready to&amp;nbsp;learn how to&amp;nbsp;harness AI and transform customer feedback into&amp;nbsp;a competitive&amp;nbsp;advantage?&amp;nbsp;The latest episode of the Product Mastery Now podcast, hosted by seasoned product leader and educator Chad McAllister, Ph.D., and featuring Applied Marketing Science (AMS) President and Managing Principal &lt;a href="https://ams-insights.com/our-consultants/john-mitchell"&gt;John Mitchell&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;dives into&amp;nbsp;just that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded>&lt;div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"&gt; 
 &lt;a href="https://blog.ams-insights.com/how-product-managers-can-gain-competitive-advantage-using-voice-of-the-customer-and-ai-insights-from-john-mitchell-on-product-mastery-now" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"&gt; &lt;img src="https://blog.ams-insights.com/hubfs/JM%20Podcast%20Episode%20-%20Nov%202025%20(1200%20x%20627%20px).png" alt="How Product Managers Can Gain Competitive Advantage Using Voice of the Customer and AI: Insights from John Mitchell&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;Product Mastery Now" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/div&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ready to&amp;nbsp;learn how to&amp;nbsp;harness AI and transform customer feedback into&amp;nbsp;a competitive&amp;nbsp;advantage?&amp;nbsp;The latest episode of the Product Mastery Now podcast, hosted by seasoned product leader and educator Chad McAllister, Ph.D., and featuring Applied Marketing Science (AMS) President and Managing Principal &lt;a href="https://ams-insights.com/our-consultants/john-mitchell"&gt;John Mitchell&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;dives into&amp;nbsp;just that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  
&lt;img src="https://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=2773158&amp;amp;k=14&amp;amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.ams-insights.com%2Fhow-product-managers-can-gain-competitive-advantage-using-voice-of-the-customer-and-ai-insights-from-john-mitchell-on-product-mastery-now&amp;amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fblog.ams-insights.com&amp;amp;bvt=rss" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; "&gt;</content:encoded>
      <category>Machine Learning/AI</category>
      <category>Voice of the Customer</category>
      <category>John Mitchell</category>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:30:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://blog.ams-insights.com/how-product-managers-can-gain-competitive-advantage-using-voice-of-the-customer-and-ai-insights-from-john-mitchell-on-product-mastery-now</guid>
      <dc:date>2025-11-18T16:30:20Z</dc:date>
      <dc:creator>Juli Lin</dc:creator>
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      <title>AMS Wins Esomar Award for Breakthrough Research Methodology</title>
      <link>https://blog.ams-insights.com/ams-wins-esomar-regional-award-for-breakthrough-research-methodology</link>
      <description>&lt;div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"&gt; 
 &lt;a href="https://blog.ams-insights.com/ams-wins-esomar-regional-award-for-breakthrough-research-methodology" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"&gt; &lt;img src="https://blog.ams-insights.com/hubfs/WINNER%20-%20ESOMAR%20Awards%202025%20(Blog%201200x627px).png" alt="AMS Wins Esomar Award for Breakthrough Research Methodology" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; 
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Applied Marketing Science, Inc. (AMS), a leading market research and consulting firm, has been named the 2025 Regional North America winner of the&amp;nbsp;Esomar&amp;nbsp;Award for Breakthrough Research Methodology. The honor, announced at the&amp;nbsp;Esomar&amp;nbsp;Congress in Prague, recognizes AMS’s groundbreaking development of a supervised, fine-tuned large language model (LLM) to transform Voice of the Customer (VOC) research.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded>&lt;div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"&gt; 
 &lt;a href="https://blog.ams-insights.com/ams-wins-esomar-regional-award-for-breakthrough-research-methodology" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"&gt; &lt;img src="https://blog.ams-insights.com/hubfs/WINNER%20-%20ESOMAR%20Awards%202025%20(Blog%201200x627px).png" alt="AMS Wins Esomar Award for Breakthrough Research Methodology" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/div&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Applied Marketing Science, Inc. (AMS), a leading market research and consulting firm, has been named the 2025 Regional North America winner of the&amp;nbsp;Esomar&amp;nbsp;Award for Breakthrough Research Methodology. The honor, announced at the&amp;nbsp;Esomar&amp;nbsp;Congress in Prague, recognizes AMS’s groundbreaking development of a supervised, fine-tuned large language model (LLM) to transform Voice of the Customer (VOC) research.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  
&lt;img src="https://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=2773158&amp;amp;k=14&amp;amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.ams-insights.com%2Fams-wins-esomar-regional-award-for-breakthrough-research-methodology&amp;amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fblog.ams-insights.com&amp;amp;bvt=rss" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; "&gt;</content:encoded>
      <category>News</category>
      <category>Machine Learning/AI</category>
      <category>Voice of the Customer</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:34:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://blog.ams-insights.com/ams-wins-esomar-regional-award-for-breakthrough-research-methodology</guid>
      <dc:date>2025-10-01T15:34:31Z</dc:date>
      <dc:creator>Juli Lin</dc:creator>
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      <title>Attending CRC 2025? Join AMS for a Powerful Session Showcasing the Impact of VOC</title>
      <link>https://blog.ams-insights.com/attending-crc-2025-join-ams-for-a-powerful-session-showcasing-the-impact-of-voc</link>
      <description>&lt;div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"&gt; 
 &lt;a href="https://blog.ams-insights.com/attending-crc-2025-join-ams-for-a-powerful-session-showcasing-the-impact-of-voc" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"&gt; &lt;img src="https://blog.ams-insights.com/hubfs/From%20Insight%20to%20Impact%20How%20Hazelden%20Betty%20Ford%20Foundation%20Leveraged%20VOC%20Research%20to%20Reimagine%20Family%20Support%20in%20Addiction%20Recovery%20(1200%20x%20627%20px)-1.png" alt="Attending CRC 2025? Join AMS for a Powerful Session Showcasing the Impact of VOC" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/div&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Applied Marketing Science (AMS) is excited to return to the Corporate Researchers Conference (CRC) in Chicago this year, where our team will be exhibiting and speaking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded>&lt;div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"&gt; 
 &lt;a href="https://blog.ams-insights.com/attending-crc-2025-join-ams-for-a-powerful-session-showcasing-the-impact-of-voc" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"&gt; &lt;img src="https://blog.ams-insights.com/hubfs/From%20Insight%20to%20Impact%20How%20Hazelden%20Betty%20Ford%20Foundation%20Leveraged%20VOC%20Research%20to%20Reimagine%20Family%20Support%20in%20Addiction%20Recovery%20(1200%20x%20627%20px)-1.png" alt="Attending CRC 2025? Join AMS for a Powerful Session Showcasing the Impact of VOC" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/div&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Applied Marketing Science (AMS) is excited to return to the Corporate Researchers Conference (CRC) in Chicago this year, where our team will be exhibiting and speaking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  
&lt;img src="https://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=2773158&amp;amp;k=14&amp;amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.ams-insights.com%2Fattending-crc-2025-join-ams-for-a-powerful-session-showcasing-the-impact-of-voc&amp;amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fblog.ams-insights.com&amp;amp;bvt=rss" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; "&gt;</content:encoded>
      <category>Conferences</category>
      <category>Voice of the Customer</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://blog.ams-insights.com/attending-crc-2025-join-ams-for-a-powerful-session-showcasing-the-impact-of-voc</guid>
      <dc:date>2025-08-20T19:00:00Z</dc:date>
      <dc:creator>Juli Lin</dc:creator>
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      <title>5 Signs You Need Voice of the Customer Training</title>
      <link>https://blog.ams-insights.com/5-signs-you-need-voice-of-the-customer-training</link>
      <description>&lt;div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"&gt; 
 &lt;a href="https://blog.ams-insights.com/5-signs-you-need-voice-of-the-customer-training" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"&gt; &lt;img src="https://blog.ams-insights.com/hubfs/October%202025%20VOC%20Virtual%20Workshop%20(Blog%201200%20x%20627%20px).png" alt="5 Signs You Need Voice of the Customer Training" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/div&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In today’s competitive marketplaces, listening to your customers is not just important -- it’s essential. The most successful organizations build products, services, and customer experiences around a deep, research-based understanding of what their customers truly need. However, even the most experienced teams can fall into common pitfalls that limit the impact of their insights.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded>&lt;div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"&gt; 
 &lt;a href="https://blog.ams-insights.com/5-signs-you-need-voice-of-the-customer-training" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"&gt; &lt;img src="https://blog.ams-insights.com/hubfs/October%202025%20VOC%20Virtual%20Workshop%20(Blog%201200%20x%20627%20px).png" alt="5 Signs You Need Voice of the Customer Training" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/div&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In today’s competitive marketplaces, listening to your customers is not just important -- it’s essential. The most successful organizations build products, services, and customer experiences around a deep, research-based understanding of what their customers truly need. However, even the most experienced teams can fall into common pitfalls that limit the impact of their insights.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  
&lt;img src="https://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=2773158&amp;amp;k=14&amp;amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.ams-insights.com%2F5-signs-you-need-voice-of-the-customer-training&amp;amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fblog.ams-insights.com&amp;amp;bvt=rss" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; "&gt;</content:encoded>
      <category>Insights Training</category>
      <category>Voice of the Customer</category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:24:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://blog.ams-insights.com/5-signs-you-need-voice-of-the-customer-training</guid>
      <dc:date>2025-08-14T19:24:42Z</dc:date>
      <dc:creator>Juli Lin</dc:creator>
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