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Michael Wolf, former VP of Research at Gigaom, and former Forrester analyst Scott Santucci, join us on our new Influencer Insights Podcast to discuss the two biggest developments in the analyst industry recently: Gigaom’s closure and the reorganisation at Forrester. The podcast also covers other interesting developments in the IT research industry including the newly announced partnership…
One of the most easily available ‘rankings’ of industry analysts mistakenly focusses on a subset of analysts whose most common feature is that IIAR members find them easy to work with. The All The Analyst (ATA) Analyst Web Rankings encourage less experienced AR managers to focus on vendor-funded analysts. As a result, more strategic AR…
The IIAR‘s training working group met again this week, and made some real progress. Much to my surprise, I was able to set that progress back within hours. One of the proposals that came out of the meeting was that we should use a wiki to see if we produce an common list of the…
Telesperience, the podcast newsletter about the telecommunications industry, has interviewed Lighthouse’s Duncan Chapple and Sun’s Gordon Davies about the impact of industry analysts. Chapple was interviewed by his former Ovum colleague Teresa Cottam, who now runs Microsperience, who asked him to define what an analyst is and to explain how companies are building relationships with…
AR teams need clarity about the reasons for measurement: different programmes have different objectives, so no single measurement approach will work in every context. That’s the challenge that Lighthouse’s Martin Tilling will be discussing in an IIAR conference call next week. AR professionals need to weigh up what sort of measurement approach will be accepted…
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…