Why don’t AR spokespeople discuss business models?

One of the biggest surprises from the Analyst Attitude Survey, which produces the data for our KeaCircle awards, is that many AR spokespeople are missing out on a surprising element of

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How AWS, HERE & Huawei overtook the megavendors

The KeaCircle and Analyst Firm Awards, which we’ll present at the Analyst Relations Value Forum on Thursday, will highlight the stunning dynamism of both analyst relations and of the analyst

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Circle awards show AR excellence is not limited to megavendors

Awards for analyst relations team are a great idea: it’s hard for AR teams to have a useful model of excellence: awards give you an idea of whether you have

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HfS Research overtakes Forrester in 2017 Outsourcing & Automation Analyst Firm Awards

This post has been superseded by the 2018 Services and Cloud Analyst Firm Awards. The 2017 Outsourcing & Automation Analyst Firm Awards contain quite a surprise. According to the responses from automation

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New method for Analyst Value Survey

A new methodology is shifting the focus of the annual Analyst Value Survey onto the professional’s experience of analysts. Unlike previous years, where value was expressed in concrete services, the

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CXP & HfS overtake ISG in 2017 IT Services Analyst Firm Awards

This post has been superceded by the 2018 Services and Cloud Analyst Firm Awards. IT services is one of the highest value segments covered by the Analyst Value Survey. Participants

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Do the IIAR awards simply reward large firms?

The 2016 Institute for Industry Analyst Relations’ awards seem to be rewarding firms for the scale of their analyst relations, rather than their quality. In a blog post on July

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German views: The analyst spider’s dense web

I recently discovered a useful article drawing together the views in several German-language publications about analysts and analyst relations. Few people who read this blog can read German, so I though it would

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