Local boy makes good
Former Gartner analyst, and recent international analyst relations guru Mark Damon Puckett is now living a better life. Mark, we salute you! See Mark’s site here Mark Damon Puckett.
Former Gartner analyst, and recent international analyst relations guru Mark Damon Puckett is now living a better life. Mark, we salute you! See Mark’s site here Mark Damon Puckett.
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Article from the blog of Lighthouse Analyst Relations: https://influencerrelations.com/

AR professionals can build sales by focussing on analysts who influence sales, and by turning the conversation to the impact of market changes on customers. Market analysts, quite understandably, look at the whole market and will welcome informed conversation with vendors that can speak strategically at the market level. However, to generate more sales recommendation…
Last week’s meeting of the IIAR invited a delegation from Datamonitor, including John Leigh, who heads the tech research at Datamonitor and its Ovum and Butler brands, and David Mitchell (who has a similar role as the new Research Fellow). John couldn’t make it, but Datamonitor CEO Mark Meek and David Mitchell gave a spirited…

NelsonHall’s built an astonishingly strong reputation over more than a decade of research into BPO and strategic sourcing. At the AR Forum on October 3rd, John gave a case study presentation to show how they are responding to the challenge of changes in the way that users are consuming research. For some of the same…

Kea Company and AR Insights are sponsoring an international analyst relations forum in central London on Thursday 3 October. AR Forum 2013 will be a full-day event held in Somerset House, the Neoclassical river-side building which previously housed the Admiralty. Many of the world’s leading analyst relations practitioners are being invited to the free event….
Ancient kings pointlessly punished their alchemists when they failed to create gold, rather than question their own avarice. Frequent criticism of industry analysts’ inaccurate forecasts is similarly wasted. Humanity’s systematic bias toward overestimating the pace of change is amplified by the deep challenges in forecasting discontinuous, high-growth, markets. Forecasts will not get much better very…
The Institute of Industry Analyst Relations website is expanding its catalogue of analyst firm website and blogs. The listing of firms is here, while the directory of analysts’ blogs is on this page. Lists like this are rarely complete, and readers can help by telling the IIAR which firms and blogs are not yet included….