Siemens, Hitachi, Schneider Electric & AECOM are the firms to watch in Kea’s 2018 Heavy Industry Influencer Quadrant. Stephen Miller (@InfluenceRel) and Duncan Chapple (@DuncanChapple) published the report on August 10th to spotlight the firms with the highest profile in analyst research on chemicals, construction, energy, manufacturing, materials, resources, shipping and transportation. Philips, Adobe and Read more about Siemens, Hitachi, Schneider & AECOM lead Heavy Industry IQ[…]

Adobe and Amazon have gained the most share of voice in analyst research over the last year. That’s the finding of Kea Company’s TMT Influencer Quadrant, which Peter O’Neill and I published on July 12. It echoes the finding of last year’s Kea Circle awards, in which our survey of industry analysts found Amazon to Read more about How Adobe & Amazon gained in TMT Influencer Quadrant[…]

Our friends at ARInsights have this important news: Carter Lusher, Director of Analyst Relations at Informatica, SageCircle founder and former research fellow at Gartner, will present a thought-provoking webinar on Tuesday, July 31st @12 ET/9 PT. Please save the date, registration details will soon follow.   Analyst 5-Year Scenario: Implications for AR of Acquisitions and Read more about Save the date for Carter Lusher webinar[…]

  Tiering and ranking analysts is a topic of growing interest this season, with webinars on the topic announced by our friends at the IIAR and Spotlight. The basic reason for ranking analysts is clear. Rather than rank analysts emotionally, or just point to past meetings, we need to have analyst lists which are ranked Read more about Analyst ranking must start with service level tiers[…]

Many public relations agencies decelerate both their growth, and that of analyst firms, by failing to show the value created by analysts and by analyst relations. That’s the finding from what is almost certainly the most extensive research project studying the international analyst relations market. To share the insight, and to help grow our own market, Read more about PR agencies can boost analyst relations value[…]

  Cool Vendor and Hot Vendor winners from around the world will gather in Orlando on October 18 to discuss how the Cool Vendor title and similar designations make start-ups more successful. In this preview webinar, a former Gartner research director will join two experts in the impact of analyst recommendations will discuss the impacts Read more about Webinar: How Cool Vendors stay cool[…]