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!
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve helped run a few in-house analysts relations workshops for clients (along with Efrem Mallach and ex-Ovum analyst Alban Thurston) all of which have touched on how spokespeople can develop more influential and insightful relationships with analysts. Taking an Appreciative Inquiry approach, at most of the workshops we had…

The chart below illustrates the very uneven recovery from 2008’s decline in hiring of AR, IR and other marketing professionals. During 2009 and 2010 we have seen a modest growth in the proportion of vacancies asking for analyst relations skills, currently up 4%. ‘Along the corridor’, in public relations and investor relations, there was a…
Dr. Thorsten Wichman, CEO of the Berlecon Research firm in Germany, has something to say about my hypothesis about why analysts’ consulting services are so much more in demand there. German speakers can see Thorsten’s comments, together with a good summary of my thoughts, on his blog. My very rough summary of his comments are…
Gartner is asking vendors for feedback on its plan that standard vendor briefings become 30 minutes long from the end of this month. We will leave it to other to speculate on the firm’s conversations with its analysts on this topic. One reason given for the curtailment is that briefings take a long time to…
Our AR consultants help vendors to better allocate their analyst relations effort. Efrem Mallach’s action research methodology, IDEAL, gives AR teams the information they need to increase their mindshare with analysts. Since the 1980s, Efrem and his colleagues have been helping vendors to build their brand and win more sales recommendations from industry analysts by…

Programmatic media buying (PMB) has rapidly transformed the purchasing of advertising.Audience targetting and yield management are being integrated with real-time bidding in wayswhich transform advertising. Marketing budgets are under increasing pressure. Publishers,advertising agencies and networks, and their clients’ marketing managers all see PMB as a wayto get more value.PMB brings huge benefits, including greater transparency,…