Ethics in analyst relations
This is an article I mentioned in a workshop this week, giving IDB’s view of issues confronted by Oracle and the analysts facing it. Fascinating!
This is an article I mentioned in a workshop this week, giving IDB’s view of issues confronted by Oracle and the analysts facing it. Fascinating!
Many of our clients successfully use our Analyst Attitude Surveys to compare their performance against their competitors and, in doing so, make the case for better resources. Of course, it’s a race: everyone is advancing their analyst relations, so the question is not whether you put more effort into your AR, but whether you can…
An American colleague working from Lighthouse’s London office today had what he called “a classic English moment”. London is not a hot city in any meaning sense of the word. Today is one of the hottest days of the year, yet we have just 88 degrees Farenheit and 31% humidity; it is less comfortable in…
High quality content is being developed cheap or free in almost every niche of publishing. Both start-ups like Yelp! and mainstream publishing firms are able to get crowdsourced content, and in that way drive down costs and drive up quality. I’ve found myself in three discussions on this theme over the last week: at at…

Eight analysts and AR professionals made some great suggestions in the wake of my post on Seven mistakes that will kill your pitch to analysts. I though I’d share their ideas here. Lisa K Stapleton: I once listened to someone who said they were going to talk about four main points. As we were listening, he kind of mentioned three and…
As firms develop and distribute their products worldwide, their need to communicate with CIO’s and regional/local analysts becomes an increasingly more complex and challenging task. There are several ‘dimensions’ to the difference, which this diagram, from Global Integration, indicates. Lighthouse’s experience that the most effective AR outreach adapts materially to these facets of local cultures…

Caroline Dennington, Samyr Jriri and I just spoke about their session at the upcoming AR Forum about analysts impact on sales. They bring amazing insights: Dennington led AR for Symantec in Europe and then led global AR before taking up a new role leading all the firm’s communications in EMEA, bringing AR and PR together. Jriri is…