Questionnaire:

Give brief introduction about descon engineering. What are the main operations of your company?

In which areas (departments) does your company conducts research? For example is the research conducted in electronics area or is it also conducted for managerial issues?

What is the purpose of conducting research?

Does your research includes primary data or secondary data? Give examples of the data type used?

Research is conducted for solving a specific issue (applied research) or just to increase knowledge (basic research)? Give examples?

Is your research a qualitative research or a quantitative research ? Give examples of the type of research.

Does your company conducts research on its own (internally) or do you hire any research firm to conduct research for you (externally)?

If your company is doing research internally, then every department conducts its own research or is there any separate department responsible for conducting research?

If there is a separate department responsible for conducting research, then how many employees (research analysts) are there in this department? What are the goals and objectives of that department?

Did your company made cross functional team (employees selected from different departments) for conducting research?

If research is conducted internally then what methods are used for conducting research? Or in other words what is the whole process of conducting research? If possible answer this in detail?

If external researcher (Business Research firm) is responsible for conducting research, then what is the name of that Research firm?

If research is conducted externally what is the complete process of conducting research?

What different kinds of research (exploratory research, descriptive research or causal research) your company does? explain with examples?

How your research can be used in decision making?

Based on the research that you have conducted, did your company succeed in finding out the solution of the companys problem?

Do you apply the results of the research you conduct?

What changes have you experienced in your company by applying those results?

What is the impact of those results?

How many times does your company or your consultant conduct research in a year?