Pitches fail because of misunderstanding and distrust

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

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More Forrester departures as Rob Koplowitz waves goodbye

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

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How to classify experts’ social media use

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

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Forrester loses $90m & Josh Bernoff

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

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2014’s top ten analyst firms for business growth

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

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Zilch joins PAC from Experton

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

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Do tech CEOs take too much pay?

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

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Announcing 2015’s ten top telecoms analyst firms

These awards have been superseded.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

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