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. In our webinar on April 11th (11am Eastern, 4pm UK time), Alan Pelz-Sharpe and Duncan Chapple will discuss the rise of automated research, and its…
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 Michael on his team’s studies in firms, often in financial services companies engaged in reinsurance (like his recent study on Lloyds of London) or investment…
These 2017 awards have been superceded by the 2018 Analyst Firm Awards.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 might have been astonished (Americas, Europe) or not (Asia, Pacific) by Frost and Sullivan’s strong performance in the Internet of Things Analyst Firm Awards for…
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 on analyst relations, online at SoundCloud. It steps through many of the key points for people starting off in analyst relations: what analysts do, how…
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 below. Click the button above to find out why AR people can be misled by guesses of analysts firms’ revenues. Click here for the 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 in segmented marketing campaigns. I’ve picked four ways in which B2C methods seem to be driving business brands off course like with the marketing company…
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 the weaknesses of both the Quadrant and the underlying method. The IIAR’s 2017 top ten drops PAC, the fifth most valuable analyst firm. Crisp Research,…
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 credibility of the participants. Sometimes the slides used in pitches are just excuses for the interaction. The slides are used to assess both the market vision…