Algorithms, not analysts, increasingly decide which firms are placed in analysts firms’ research, and how they are valued. Gartner is placing a big bet on quadrants driven by customer data.

Today some colleagues and I have been discussing with Dr Michael Smets (@michael_smets), from the Centre for Professional Services Firms at the University of Oxford. We’ve been gathering insight from

These 2017 awards have been superceded by the 2018 Analyst Firm Awards. IoT is now part of our cloud and services awards. Depending on your region of the world, you

Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, produce one of the best podcast series in any market. This month they have one of the most useful podcasts

Click to read ‘Warning: Don’t use guesstimates of analyst firms’ revenue’ Our article called ‘Warning: Don’t use guesstimates of analyst firms’ revenue’ is a useful compliment to Joerg Kerler’s article

Something’s going wrong with business to business marketing. Marketers seem to be more distant than ever from understanding their customers or having the time needed to build different value propositions

The IIAR has updated its Tragic Quadrant, which ostensibly ranks the ten top analyst firms in terms of impact, relevance and ease of doing business with. Earlier posts have mentioned

In pitches to analysts, there are many conversations going on. At one level, there’s a communication about the business solution. There’s also a conversation about the wider market and about the personal

