Christian Hampel, a researcher from the Psychologische Institut Mainz, and I have a totally new analyst relations strategy. Since February, we have been developing and testing some ideas from social
The closure of Gigaom on the same day as the surprise announcement of an alliance between two high-growth analyst firms shows the high stakes in the analyst industry. Freelance analysts
Analysts don’t think it’s their job to help failing spokespeople. Rather than speak up, analysts will often let executives hang themselves with their own rope. That’s the sad story emerging
Forrester Research’s management sounded confident when they announced the firm’s quarterly results this week, but shareholders are not.
One of the most interesting discoveries of the Analyst Value Survey was that some demand-side firms have a very different idea from supply-side firms about which analyst firms are driving
Over 200 telecoms and networking professionals told the Analyst Value Survey that Gartner, IDC and Forrester were the three most valuable analyst firms. That’s a great result for IDC, but
2014 has been the breakout year for freemium analyst firms. It’s fundamentally ended the fantasy that only Gartner and Forrester were “deal-maker or breaker” firms. An excellent illustration of that
Over the last month Influencer Relations’ Analyst Firm Awards for 2014 have gone from successful to monumental.