Summary: Introduction

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• 1 introduction

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• What is systematic research? 

  It is done for example businesses, and has a through process which has a structured way of doing research.  Research proposal > Desk research > Field research > Final report.

• Why do businesses need good research? 

  
  
  
  
  

  • to base the right decisions on and stay competitive. 
    

• What are 3 competencies research has?

  - Knowlege (research method, subject to investigate) 
  - Attitude (Independent, objective, problem solving attitude) 
  - Skills (communicating, creative, interviewing, presenting)

• What are the 6 basic principles in the research circle?

  1. problem analysis
  2. Research design
  3. Data collection 
  4. Data analysis
  5. Reporting and presenting 
  6. Evaluation

• 2 Research proposal 1

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• What is the content of a research proposal? 

  
  
  
  
  • Title page
  • Introduction
  • Orientation on the problem
  • Defining the problem
  • Formulating the objective of the research project 
  • Formulating the main and sub questions
  • Definitions
  • Restrictions and limited conditions
  • Justification of the research method
  • Planning
  • Budget
  • Communication
  • Bibliography
  • Appendices 

• What are the 5 questions for the orientation on the problem?

  - Who are the stakeholders
  - Why is it a problem
  - How did it arise
  - How was the problem discovered 
  - Are there previous research reports available.

• What is the perspective of the client?

  WHO takes a decision
  WHAT decision needs to be taken
  RECOMMENDATIONS
  
  
  
  
  The research objective is to give recommendations before ..... (date) to ......(the client) so that he can take decisions on .........(the problem) 

• What is the perspective of the researcher?

  What do you want to have achieved at the end of the research (Answer INSIGHT)
  
  
  
  
  through giving insight in ......(research result) by identifying/analyzing.....(what and where).

• What are 5 aspects of a main question?

  
  
  
  
  

  •   Phrased like a clear question
    
  •   Relatedtotheobjective
    
  •   Covering the complete problem definition
    
  •   Not two questions in one 
    

• What are 4 aspects of Sub questions?

  
  
  
  
  

  •   SQs together answer the main  question(sufficient info)
    
  •   SQs may not be irrelevant for answering MQ
    
  •   SQs may not be a repetition of MQ (in different words)
    
  •   SQs may never be closed questions