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 this month, as my colleague Christian and I speak with analysts who look part in the recent Analyst Attitude Survey. Roughly half of the 150…
On his final blog post, Rob Koplowitz has joined John Rakowski, Scott Santucci, Stefan Ried and “rock star’ analyst Josh Bernoff in leaving Forrester Research. The #2 analyst firm, which remarkably lost $90 million in market capitalisation earlier this year, announced 50 redundancies, including two analysts. The fact that we are at over double that number…
Managers are increasingly using information from social media: managers, product developers and other managers are exposed to both new benefits and new risks. Companies need to control the risks that arise from using social media information, which also means controlling the tools that bring these data to managers. I’ve been discussing that question today with…
Forrester Research’s management sounded confident when they announced the firm’s quarterly results this week, but shareholders are not. The firm’s earnings call said that 50 jobs have been cut to rebalance the business. Forrester Research’s management sounded confident when they announced the firm’s quarterly results this week, but shareholders are not. The firm’s earnings call said…
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 business growth. We asked users of analyst services to name the five firms that most drove business growth, Generally there was agreement about the top…
One of Europe’s best-known analysts will switch firms next month. Experton Group director and lead advisor Andreas Zilch has joined PAC, the services and software firm which CXP Group recently bought. As a cloud computing specialist, Zilch as advised many of Europe’s biggest businesses and has been the key watcher of Fujitsu. Zilch is a…
On Saturday, my comments about CEO pay were reported in The Independent, one of Britain’s major national dailies. As Merv Adrian’s article shows, industry analysts also recognise that CEO pay is now of the broad range of reputational issues that tech firms need to pay attention to anticipating. The Independent’s article was geared around salaries at…
These awards have been superseded. See the 2018 Telecoms & Networking Analyst Firm Awards at: https://www.influencerrelations.com/7189 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 the real surprise is the strong performance of services firms…