Seven factors that predict business growth: Webinar on the PROCESS wheel

On our free webinar on June 25th, KPMG and Shell alumna Rosemary Cooper-Clark will explain a method to review the key elements that drive business performance and business success. It’s

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IIAR’s Tragic Quadrant spotlights overrated analysts

Analyst firms should pay serious attention to the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations‘ (IIAR) new Tragic Quadrant. The TQ spotlights some upstart firms that have successfully won much greater mindshare

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Five ethics policies for analyst firms

Do vendors pay analysts to say what they want them to say? Not normally. Vendor support for the analyst community is substantial: many obtain more revenue from vendors than from users.

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Four stages in the evolution of analyst firms

Changes in business have driven the growing revenue and authority of ICT industry analysts. Four distinct stages reflect the several factors that have defined this success. For much of the

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451 alum Hecht: analyst is tech evangelist not vendor advocate

Lawrence Hecht, formerly an analyst at 451 Research/TheInfoPro, offers this response to Phil Fersht’s recent contribution to our post opposing Federal regulation of analysts. Why would anyone want to be

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HfS’ Fersht: Analysts could decline without regulation

Many thanks to HfS Research founder Phil Fersht for this reply to our recent post opposing state regulation of analysts. Duncan – thanks for airing this important issue. It’s become

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AR Classics: Why Congress won’t regulate analysts

Given the current FIFA scandal, it’s interesting to note that it is a year since the most serious call yet for the regulation of industry analysts. Phil Fersht argues against

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How Nortel AR went from 16th to 1st

Analyst relations was a big part of Nortel Networks‘ huge success during the 1998-2000 tech boom. In 2000, I became head of AR for Brodeur Worldwide, Nortel’s agency. The team’s accomplishment

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