Ovum’s former (and final) CEO Chris Dines and Fash Darabi (previously Managing Director, Ovum Telecoms) are in the midst of launching a new business. It’s called Knowledge Peers, and is a service targeted at financial decision makers in small and medium enterprises. Chris writes: “It combines ready access to high quality advice and support together…
Some great new research papers from Vanson Bourne come highly recommended. At first glance (walking out the door for the weekend) they look excellent. I’m especially attracted by the paper called Technology media, brand recognition and the role of research. It’s a survey of 300 senior IT decision makers in Germany, the UK and France….
Messaging develops in two ways: up from the grass-roots experience of the company, and down from the top-level idea. The third assertion in our Credo series is that AR managers have to accept that duality, and understand that it reflects analysts different approaches. The challenge for the AR professional is to develop consistency, both between…
One of our readers emailed me to ask about analysts that cover the building and construction industry. Our research shows that very few analysts following high-technology industries tend to follow building and construction, mainly because there’s very little verticalised technology for building and construction. For example, that market is perhaps the principal buyer of project…
One of the most stressful events for analyst relations managers is working out what to do when analysts attack. This is a topic we’ve discussed a lot over the past few years. AR managers often find that as well as focussing on the external relationship with the analyst, they need to manage the internal fall-out…
Building on last week’s posting, I wanted to flag up this map in which the sizes of countries reflect computer exports. Computer exports make up almost 11 per cent of world trade. While these data will be especially relevant to the technology-focused readers of this blog, the huge scale of the computer industry means that…
It’s probably going to be a great year, with new challenges, for analyst relations professionals. While United States businesspeople may be able to produce a recession by acting out their fears, world markets have performed well in 2007. Almost every major stock exchange rose in dollar terms, with the exception of Japan. Growth was especially…
The team at Lighthouse Analyst Relations sends you, your loved ones and colleagues our warmest wishes for the holidays and for 2008, our tenth anniversary. We are continuing our tradition of donating our budget for holiday cards to charity. This year we are supporting the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, which…