There’s no analyst relations angle to this post. I was just looking through the email summary of this month’s Harvard Business Review when, over to the right of my gmail

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Our concerns about the evenness of role-based research are deepened by Forrester’s latest AR research AR’s Graveyard: Unmet Sales Commitments. Forrester’s guidance is that, because most AR teams struggle to

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There’s trouble at t’ Ovum mill. Two of the firm’s star IT research directors, Gary Barnett and Ian Wesley, have left the firm. Gary and Ian have been absolutely central

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Many thanks to a senior researcher in an international analyst firm for allowing me to share this comment with you: it gives a great flavour of the frustrations of many

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Our post on growth opportunities for competitors to Forrester and Gartner has triggered some discussion, both in our monthly ‘Advisor Spotlight’ webinar, another blog and on our Boardroom. In particular,

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According to a B2B article, IDC’s 2007 survey of tech vendors’ marketing budgets showed that 6.3% of the budget goes on PR (down from 7.1%) and a further 2.2% on

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There’s some discussion on how to spot a good analyst, which has won some kudos. What this post really describes are the analysts who are most likely to give satisfying

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Gartner and Forrester’s increasing focus on global $1bn-plus firms is leaving money on the table for firms like IDC, Berlecon, NelsonHall, Burton, Pierre Audoin Consultants and Springboard to pick up.

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