MRFGR brings customers or other relevant participants into workshops to discuss problems and develop ideas with you. Structured activities give people ways to contribute, compare suggestions and explain their preferences. The sessions can help you explore options for a product, service or wider business challenge.
Co-creation / Ideation Workshops are collaborative sessions tailored to harness the external viewpoints and expertise of diverse customer segments. Designed to facilitate active participation and open dialogue, they help businesses tackle challenges, explore opportunities, and generate innovative solutions. These sessions are particularly effective for businesses seeking fresh, customer-driven insights to inform their strategies and innovations.
Planning co-creation / ideation workshops
Select participants whose experiences and perspectives relate to the challenge you want to explore.
Use facilitated activities and discussion to explore needs, opportunities and possible solutions.
Capture and assess the ideas that emerge, then agree what needs refinement or further testing.
Share the challenge, development stage and intended participants so the workshop can be designed around a useful outcome.
Engaging Diverse Perspectives: By involving customers from various demographics, these workshops provide a comprehensive understanding of consumer needs and expectations, tapping into a wide range of experiences and insights.
Structured for Impact: Each session follows a meticulously planned structure to maximize productivity. This includes setting clear objectives, facilitating brainstorming, and concluding with strategic action plans, ensuring thorough exploration and assessment of every idea.
Direct Customer Engagement: The workshops offer a direct line to customer thoughts and preferences, providing an unfiltered view into the consumer psyche that can dramatically enhance the relevance and appeal of your offerings.
Accelerated Innovation: Direct customer input allows businesses to quickly identify viable ideas and solutions that resonate with their target market, speeding up the innovation process and reducing time to market.
Generating Customer-Centric Solutions: Companies across sectors have used co-creation sessions to refine product designs, enhance service offerings, and redefine customer experiences based on authentic feedback.
Developing Actionable Strategies: The primary aim of each session is to transform customer insights into actionable business strategies. These settings not only foster innovative thinking but also create detailed plans for implementation, ensuring that customer-driven innovations are effectively integrated into business operations.
Customising the experience: Each workshop is customised to align with specific business challenges and goals, incorporating the right mix of customer participants to ensure comprehensive feedback and insights.
Expert Facilitation: Led by experienced facilitators, these sessions are crafted to encourage open, productive discussions and to manage the dynamics of the group effectively, ensuring a successful outcome.
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Client feedback
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Over the past year, we have had the pleasure of working with MRFGR on multiple projects, and we cannot recommend them highly enough.
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Their communication throughout our engagements has been excellent, always prompt and clear, which has greatly facilitated our processes.
The team at MRFGR, although small, is exceptionally knowledgeable and dedicated. Their expertise is evident in their ability to obtain high sample sizes and deliver well-published results. What sets them apart is how easily their findings are translated into actionable insights, ensuring that we can swiftly and effectively utilise the data.
Their speed of delivery is truly impressive. We consistently receive results in good time, which is crucial for our fast-paced operations. MRFGR has proven to be an invaluable partner, and their service has consistently exceeded our expectations.
For anyone in need of reliable, efficient, and insightful research services, MRFGR comes highly recommended.
MRFGR have been absolutely brilliant! The videos we have received from their respondents have been perfect - they clearly brief their people really well and you can tell from the content we receive. They give clear communication & are on hand to help at all times. We give them some crazy tight timelines and they turn things around for us so quickly and without stress - even when the respondents are coming from multiple countries.
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I highly recommend Matthew & Paul - they're fab!
When I phoned Matthew at MRFGR I was in a bit of a pickle. I needed to recruit 25 consultant paediatricians for telephone interviews (with minimal incentive) across 8 countries, two of which were non-English speaking. Oh, and I needed to have recruited and completed the interviews in 12 working days. Surprisingly, Matthew wasn't taken aback by this and set about the task with enthusiasm. Even against these challenging timescales, Matthew was able to deliver all 25 consultants - a phenomenal effort.
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I was extremely happy. And, more importantly, so was my client.
MRFGR were not the cheapest firm who pitched for our work, but I am happy that I decided to go with them. I feel that their database is extensive and this combined with their excellent client service means that they offer a higher degree of reassurance and peace of mind than other recruitment agencies we have worked with in the past. When we had a problem to resolve at short notice they did this very quickly. I would happily work with them again.
Hi Stephen Both groups went very well - a key client attended the first and was very pleased. Very articulate groups, really impressed especially considering it was such a difficult recruit (recruiting Somalis). The hotel was great too, incidentally, a nice place to do groups. Many thanks for your hard work on this - hope you feel it was worthwhile!
MRFGR recruited four focus groups for our research across a variety of settings, including socio- economically deprived urban communities and very small rural communities. Despite the significant challenges these settings posed MRFGR ensured that all our focus groups were fully attended, and with a minimum of fuss. I would have no hesitation in recommending them for recruitment work.
It's always a pleasure to work with MRFGR. They are a great partner who consistently recruit high calibre respondents to take part in our research projects and workshops. Always professional and very reliable.
Our organisation, the Solicitors Regulation Authority, has used MRFGR to support our recruitment requirements for focus groups and public events and we have always found their service and achievements to be excellent. They have demonstrated a commitment to meet last-minute requirements in a calm and professional manner and we would not hesitate to recommend them.
I would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation for the work that you recently carried out for us. Stephen Essex and MRFGR were recommended to me by a colleague. It was important for us to find a company who could understand and deliver our brief on a very tight schedule. Stephen demonstrated a level of knowledge and professionalism that gave us the assurance that this would be achieved.
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The result was a report that clearly met the objectives of our brief, was presented in a professional manner, which then enabled us to present the findings to our customer with confidence. We would not hesitate to recommend or use Stephen again.
The groups in Chipping Norton went really well thank you. We had a full turn out to both of them. I would just like to say that we have been very impressed with the number of participants you have managed to recruit to these groups, your regular updates on the recruitment progress, and your follow up contact. We have also had very positive feedback from the participants about their contact with you. We will definitely consider MRFGR in future when wishing to recruit participants to similar groups.
We have used MRFGR to recruit participants for multiple research projects with varied samples sizes and sometimes challenging recruitment criteria. They have a calm and professional manner, providing us with regular updates in the lead up to and on the day of research projects. Multiple touch points with participants approaching the study date ensures drop-out rates are extremely low with replacements usually being found very quickly if necessary. I look forward to working with MRFGR in the future.
MRFGR is the first external company we have used for sourcing focus group attendees. Although we have organised many groups previously I would definitely use MRFGR again. The costs were reasonable and the attendees we have received have been exactly the right target groups. The level of communication has been satisfactory too with regular updates leading up to each focus group. Matthew has managed all of the groups we have requested and there has been no issues. I would recommend trying MRFGR.
Common questions
Selected answers for planning this kind of research. Browse the complete knowledge centre for related methods, audiences and delivery questions.
You can use the ideas, prototypes and recommendations from a workshop to compare possible solutions and decide which to develop or test further.
Open FAQThey are collaborative sessions where consumers and stakeholders develop ideas together for products, services, or campaigns.
Open FAQIt ensures innovations are grounded in consumer needs, increasing success rates.
Open FAQYes. We organise workshops globally, adapting for cultural context.
Open FAQThe recruitment cost of a respondent type is generally dependent on three variables, (1) the time frame to recruit, (2) the level of difficulty in terms of the screening requirement/respondent type required, and (3) the number of respondents required (large scale respondent recruits can qualify for discounts depending on certain factors).
For a quick no obligation respondent recruitment quote (we can usually turnaround a quote within minutes of the request) please call or email the office.
Open FAQThey are used for new product development, brand strategy, and communication design.
Open FAQParticipants are carefully selected to reflect the target audience or stakeholders.
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Share the challenge, development stage and intended participants so the workshop can be designed around a useful outcome.