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/
Kensington Group was one of the first analyst relations consultancies. After an unsuccessful purchase of that firm by Courtney Smith’s MetaSource Group in 2002, Kensington merged into a MetaSource company, KGI Management Consulting, and dissapeared from the analyst relations scene. The firm’s former CEO, Efrem Mallach, is principal at Lighthouse Analyst Relations. Kensington was a…

techUK, the industry association whose ‘Analyst Launchpad’ seminars educate British tech business on analyst relations, has announced a University of Edinburgh certificate in analyst relations.
Messaging develops in two ways: up from the grass-roots experience of the company, and down from the top-level idea. The third assertion in our Credo series is that AR managers have to accept that duality, and understand that it reflects analysts different approaches. The challenge for the AR professional is to develop consistency, both between…
IT budgets are always under constraint, but today’s CIOs are under intense pressure to deliver more for less. At the same time technology development is offering new options, from social computing to sourcing. IT must assess these effectively and invest for business benefit.
Managers’ comfort with statistical information varies greatly. When shown a chart like the one on the right, they either know what questions to ask themselves, or they skip over it. In this chart, the blue line shows the performance of a firm over the last year, and the other lines try to explain the data….

There is a huge opportunity for vendors to benefit from the generalised decline in the responsiveness of analyst relations. Most vendors fail to act in the knowledge of the last year’s changes, creating huge benefits for those AR teams that fill the gap. That is the overwhelming tone of conversations with around two dozen analysts…