How can analysts and research directors work well together?

Yesterday Professor Susan E. Murphy, an internationally-respected leadership expert at Edinburgh University, gave a talk about how researchers are grown. The balance between finding mentors and working with supervisors is a key challenge

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Analyst Value Survey now available

The 2014 Analyst Value Survey is now available. Survey participants will get a summary later this week, but the full results are available from Kea Company. Over the last year the

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AR gets firms in the room, but it’s the spokespeople who convince

Yesterday I spent a couple of hours with Rick Nash discussing AR and Analyst Relationship Maturity. Rick is a Kansas City-based AR leader. Like many, he uses a relationship ladder

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Efrem Mallach on 40 years in and around the analyst industry

In a discussion at the Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh on September 19, Efrem Mallach outlined his 40 years in the industry to a seminar room crowded with

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Sales influence before and after the chasm

Debleena Paul from SapientNitro and Vodafone’s David Taylor stressed the role of maturity in sales enablement when speaking at the Analyst Relations Forum on September 17th. Go to market strategy has

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AR Classics: How analysts influence the Buyer Decision Process

Symantec’s EMEA comms leader Caroline Dennington and recent Gartner alum Samyr Jriri gave an impressive presentation today about analysts’ impact on sales. Context is key: analysts are increasingly stretched, something

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451 co-founder Nick Patience: focus on the R in AR

Nick Patience was the keynote speaker opening the 2014 Analyst Relations Forum: a part of the small ex-Computerwire team that founded AR in a small NYC office in the 1990s,

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Nucleus Research focuses on value and ROI

Within the 30 leading analyst firms, Nucleus Research came top in the the 2014 Analyst Value Survey when it comes to value for money. Maybe it’s because Nucleus is under-pricing its

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