Fighting for government contracts
Fighting for government contracts: This is a very interesting development: The NHS has appointed Ovum as the go-to people for suppliers interested in selling national infrastructure to the NHS.
Weblogs and Best Practices
Analyst Weblogs and AR Best Practices | Analyst Cafe: Tekrati Tips A very nice set of tips, including: Track down the blogs your analysts are writing. Don’t be afraid to simply ask if web searches do not produce results. Browse the analyst blogs periodically to get a better sense of their personalities, interests and rationale….
Biovail: the first victim of analysts’ new "Tough Love"
The last two weeks have been a horrid time for Biovail. The firm’s reaction to a negative analyst report was aggressive and emotional, reflecting the way the analyst’s comments hit home hard. Biovail, an Candian firm with a core competance in agressive accounting, is just the clearest example to date of the new ‘tough love’…
Bloor: firmly on the vendor’s side
Corigin, the data extraction and migration software vendors, recently selected Bloor Research as its major analyst partner, after evaluating ten other firms. “Working effectively with analysts enables vendors to reach all their target audiences” writes Bloor’s francophile Finance Director. Bob McDowall explains that “Analysts provide two roles for a vendor. One is externally focused: This…
Media Map on analysts
Media Map’s comment on analysts relations says more about its PR clients than about itself. It’s aware that technology analysts are a big influence on the media, but wonders why Coca-Cola, General Mills or Pfizer are not putting the extensive resources into analyst relations that high-tech vendors do. The answer’s not even hinted at: technology…
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. ===== Article from the blog of Lighthouse Analyst Relations: https://influencerrelations.com/
