Why Technology Analysts Need to Lead with Business Value

After back-to-back briefings with analysts here at Mobile World Congress, I’m hearing that many analysts find themselves caught in a familiar tension: focus on the technical facts or emphasize business

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What Industry Analysts Can Learn From Commercial Storytelling

Recently, I’ve been planning a business story development workshop that builds on insights from my 2022 paper in Organization Studies, with Neil Pollock and Luciana D’Adderio,”Extending entrepreneurial storytelling to new

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Industry Analysts: Time to Pivot from Product Reviews to Problem Solving?

Extensive research (See this article) from Lancaster University Management School has highlighted a concerning disconnect in the analyst relations world: Industry analysts producing extensive content that technology vendors consume, but

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A Complete Guide to 2025’s Analyst Firms – New SageCircle Research

An interesting chart from SageCircle shows how users of major analyst and advisory firms perceive their independence, market impact, and specialization. The report clusters the analyst firms into ten categories.

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AR Classics: The Analyst Industry’s Price Paradox

In 2009, as the global financial crisis reshaped business priorities, Marius Jost sat down with Duncan Chapple to discuss major shifts in the IT research industry. Their podcast captured three

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Making Analyst Briefings Count: New Evidence Shows the Power of Dialogue

Recent analysis of analyst briefing records reveals a clear pattern: the most successful vendor briefings feature significantly more two-way dialogue than presentation-style meetings. The data challenges some common assumptions about

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AI and Market Research: Beyond Tools to Infrastructure

The market research industry faces unprecedented change as AI reshapes how organizations produce and consume intelligence. At Barcelona’s SCIP Intellicon 2024, practitioners shared insights about this transformation that point to

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Informa/Omdia/TechTarget: Right Strategy, Challenging Timing

TechTarget’s stock price has fallen 36% this year to reach $22.01, a 52-week low. While market sentiment reflects broader tech sector headwinds, it also indicates investor uncertainty about integrating TechTarget

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