
Ruoxi Wang
Marketing Research
Company: Chicago Chamber of Commerce
Tools: SPSS, Qualtrics, Excel

Research Purpose
Technological Education
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Technology education identified as an area of need for CCC’s membership
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Lack of technological expertise inhibits individual and organizational success
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Prioritization of Focus and Resources
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Technology is a broad and continuously expanding component of business
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Difficult to know where to begin to address educational and resource needs

Research Objectives
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Identify the technological resources considered to be most essential to the success of the Chamber’s members
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Determine the trending need of technological resources
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Determine whether technological needs vary based on the size of businesses




Research Design
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Filtered results of the larger CCC survey to cultivate most relevant data
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Utilize descriptive statistics to identify current essential technology resources
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Hypotheses testing comparing proportions of responses according to:
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Year the surveys were executed
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Size of the respondent’s employer




Conclusion & Recommendation
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Small business & Big companies:
Email and website Essential tools
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CRM software Trend
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Provide support and service for email and website technology
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Provide training and resources for CRM software