We continue to campaign about the need for an “Analyst Relations Process Model”. The basic idea is that there are five key activities in AR. Most firms are not addressing the complete set of tasks. Not all of them are reflecting common practice or best practice. Few have stable and repeatable workflow process. These three…
Today’s New York Times has a further installment on the dispute the Altera which wrote about on Wednesday. Thanks to John Sun at Mobile Analyst Watch for pointing this article out. In it some other companies, which are also hard with critical analysts, get a roasting. It’s only a matter of time until this spotlight…
Kable, the European analyst house focussed on the public sector, is continuing with The Ideal Government Project. I seem to recall that originally it was an eight week experiment in collaboration with one of their major clients. William Heath, Kable’s honcho, edits the blog, which gives an excellent survey of technology adoption – in particular…
Most blogs fail to get past the first ten postings, but Mobile Analyst Watch is now up and walking. Silicon Valley geek John Sun has started his own blog, which tracks the analysts covering the mobile devices, content and services market. If you have a chance then check it out. John has a broad approach…
Our annual Analyst Attitude Survey benchmarking study shows how the key principles of analyst relations success are the same in many tech markets, but the results are amplified where the deal size is larger, like telecoms. Generally, there are a lot of indicators that point in the same direction. Compared to their competitors, firms that…
Forrester Research’s long-term commitment to building up the ARM Council over the last two years gives a good idea of the effort required to develop the kind of critical mass required by an authoritative representative body for the AR community, something that is the subject of ongoing discussion here and between the ARmadgeddon gnomes. Forrester’s…
According to an article from the New York Times, a Wall Street technology analyst has been forced to drop coverage of semiconductor leader Altera. According to Times journalist Gretchen Morgenson, Tad LaFountain is “dropping coverage of the Altera Corporation, an industry giant, because its executives had told him they would not take his phone calls,…
Bloor Research is back, big time, with new leadership and a Cunning Plan. A long conversation with Bloor Research’s CEO, Justin Speake, and founder Robin Bloor left me wondering whether it will work. What’s not in doubt is that these people have the vision and the operational skills to get the ball rolling. Justin’s team…