ARmadgeddon’s post about the development of an AR association not only cited this blog (and neutrally, for once) but also got me thinking about the initiatives that are springing up here and there for bringing AR professionals together. There’s some something close to paranoia in some of these discussions, but also some flecks of wisdom…
Network World this week carries an interesting quotation from John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School and CareGroup Healthcare System in Boston. “We had been buying into research firms because they were very helpful from a strategic standpoint and the world wasn’t so complicated then,” Halamka says. “But over the last year and a half…
Telecommunications and networking are two of the markets where analyst influence is the highest – and where analyst relations makes the biggest difference to business growth. Next Thursday, Lighthouse is holding a conference call for its clients and subscribers to our newsletter to explain the tactics and strategies that some of the leading telecoms players…
An interesting comment arrived today from a reader in Germany (After the US, the country with the most readers of this blog at the moment) who has been looking at Meton Group (P.S. Now called Experton). Like many US analyst firms, new analyst firms in Europe also have to consider finding an outsource partner for…
After reading this post on ARmadgeddon a few weeks ago, the same topic came up in conversation with Bill Hopkins this week. Bill is a former Gartner analyst who is best known in the US AR community for running a course on working with the analysts. Lighthouse has had a useful exchange of ideas with…
Gartner has some fresh competition in Germany. This month Meton Group has launched, named after the Greek astronomer and mathematician Meton, on whose calculations the Greek calendar was based. It has started its first research program, which is for vendors in the information and communication technology (ICT) markets. Meton’s research will be sold both as…
Singapore is the next port of call for Lighthouse’s popular training seminar on Influencing Industry Analysts Worldwide. The other principal of Lighthouse AR, Efrem Mallach, will be running this course on Monday 15th August at the chic Rendezvous Hotel. Efrem with be assisted by a local former analyst. They are a good duo, with plenty…
I’ve had a fascinating discussion today with a US analyst relations manager today who led me to this case study from CARMA. Despite a cheering error (“contributions to the bottom line would help the company whether the storm.”) it raises an interesting point. This firm aimed for better-placed media coverage, and for that coverage to…