Richard K. Miller & Associates
Richard K. Miller & Associates (RKMA), founded in 1972, publishes ebooks focusedon marketing and the consumer marketplace, and advanced digital technologies.RKMA business reference ebooks are used at virtually all academic libraries atuniversities with an MBA program.
RKMA is unique among market research companies in that the firm was active asconsulting engineers and helped shape the market sectors that it now analyzes.Beyond simply analyzing data, RKMA is often privileged to inside information sinceRichard knows personally many of the leaders across business and technology sectors.
Originally established as a consulting engineering firm, RKMA clients included 52Fortune 500 companies and five federal agencies as well as over 350 business andindustrial clients. The focus of RKMA in the 1970s and early 1980s was in theenvironmental and energy engineering sectors. As the industrial landscape evolved,the firm transitioned towards a specialized focus on market research. In the 1980s,RKMA was among the leading firms in the fields of artificial intelligence, manufacturingautomation, robotics, computer simulation, and interactive multimedia. RKMA firstwrote about the Internet (then called the Arpanet) in 1984.
Richard grew up working in his family's retail business. This experience supportsRKMA’s expertise in consumer market research. Hundreds of retail companies,including each of the 10 largest U.S. retail chains, have used RKMA market researchpublications.
In the environmental field, Richard was on one of three teams that performed thepioneer research assessments for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)upon its founding. His market research charts lined the hallway leading into the officeof EPA’s first administrator, William D. Ruckelshaus. In 1971, while a consultant atLSGA, Richard developed the first computer program for real-time environmentalmonitoring under contract to EPA.
In the energy field, Richard was the co-founder (along with Albert Thumann) of the17,000-member Association of Energy Engineers (AEE). Richard is a Certified EnergyManager (C.E.M.) and Certified Sustainable Development Professional (CSDP), andhas consulted as well as taught seminars in the field. Richard was named a Legend inEnergy in 2007.
In the healthcare field, RKMA’s Healthcare Business Market Research, published forover two decades, has been used at most major U.S. hospital corporations. Richardwas a vice president at Hearex, a nationwide market leader in mobile health monitoring.He worked as a consulting engineer at dozens of manufacturing facilities. Richardserved as an expert witness on behalf of the Occupational Safety and HealthAdministration (OSHA) and has testified at Congressional subcommittee hearings.
Richard was a pioneer in industrial robotics. Robots In Industry, his seven-volumeseries published in 1982, was among the first publications on robotic applications.Certified as a Manufacturing Engineer in the Field of Robotics (CMfgE), he consultedand taught seminars in the field throughout the 1980s.
RKMA published 18 market research studies on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the 1980sand 1990s. The firm’s annual market study, Expert Systems, tracked the initialcommercialization of AI software for a decade. Richard was one the participants in thelegendary 1985 IJCAI conference at UCLA.
Richard has been a speaker at over one hundred conferences, and thousands haveattended his seminars and presentations. His books have been published by AEE,Frost & Sullivan, Future Technology Surveys (FTS), Prentice Hall, the Society ofManufacturing Engineers, Taylor & Francis, Technical Insights, The Fairmont Press,and VanNostrand Reinhold.
Over the span of its existence, RKMA has published over 500 market research reports,with several of the firm's annual studies being the top-selling publications within theirrespective domains. This legacy has solidified RKMA’s standing as a premier analystentity within the United States.
RKMA is unique among market research companies in that the firm was active asconsulting engineers and helped shape the market sectors that it now analyzes.Beyond simply analyzing data, RKMA is often privileged to inside information sinceRichard knows personally many of the leaders across business and technology sectors.
Originally established as a consulting engineering firm, RKMA clients included 52Fortune 500 companies and five federal agencies as well as over 350 business andindustrial clients. The focus of RKMA in the 1970s and early 1980s was in theenvironmental and energy engineering sectors. As the industrial landscape evolved,the firm transitioned towards a specialized focus on market research. In the 1980s,RKMA was among the leading firms in the fields of artificial intelligence, manufacturingautomation, robotics, computer simulation, and interactive multimedia. RKMA firstwrote about the Internet (then called the Arpanet) in 1984.
Richard grew up working in his family's retail business. This experience supportsRKMA’s expertise in consumer market research. Hundreds of retail companies,including each of the 10 largest U.S. retail chains, have used RKMA market researchpublications.
In the environmental field, Richard was on one of three teams that performed thepioneer research assessments for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)upon its founding. His market research charts lined the hallway leading into the officeof EPA’s first administrator, William D. Ruckelshaus. In 1971, while a consultant atLSGA, Richard developed the first computer program for real-time environmentalmonitoring under contract to EPA.
In the energy field, Richard was the co-founder (along with Albert Thumann) of the17,000-member Association of Energy Engineers (AEE). Richard is a Certified EnergyManager (C.E.M.) and Certified Sustainable Development Professional (CSDP), andhas consulted as well as taught seminars in the field. Richard was named a Legend inEnergy in 2007.
In the healthcare field, RKMA’s Healthcare Business Market Research, published forover two decades, has been used at most major U.S. hospital corporations. Richardwas a vice president at Hearex, a nationwide market leader in mobile health monitoring.He worked as a consulting engineer at dozens of manufacturing facilities. Richardserved as an expert witness on behalf of the Occupational Safety and HealthAdministration (OSHA) and has testified at Congressional subcommittee hearings.
Richard was a pioneer in industrial robotics. Robots In Industry, his seven-volumeseries published in 1982, was among the first publications on robotic applications.Certified as a Manufacturing Engineer in the Field of Robotics (CMfgE), he consultedand taught seminars in the field throughout the 1980s.
RKMA published 18 market research studies on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the 1980sand 1990s. The firm’s annual market study, Expert Systems, tracked the initialcommercialization of AI software for a decade. Richard was one the participants in thelegendary 1985 IJCAI conference at UCLA.
Richard has been a speaker at over one hundred conferences, and thousands haveattended his seminars and presentations. His books have been published by AEE,Frost & Sullivan, Future Technology Surveys (FTS), Prentice Hall, the Society ofManufacturing Engineers, Taylor & Francis, Technical Insights, The Fairmont Press,and VanNostrand Reinhold.
Over the span of its existence, RKMA has published over 500 market research reports,with several of the firm's annual studies being the top-selling publications within theirrespective domains. This legacy has solidified RKMA’s standing as a premier analystentity within the United States.
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