In the ten different Influencer Relations’ Analyst Firm Awards for 2014 (AFOTY14) rankings published this week, there is one that matters more than any other: the Global Top 10. This is the
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Update: The 2018 Analyst Firm Awards are available here. 9 December 2014 – London, UK. Long-time industry leaders Gartner and Forrester Research have been joined by HfS Research as the
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The spreadsheets are closed, the judges are happy and the winners are being told. Next week this site will announce Influencer Relations’ Analyst Firm Awards for 2014 (AFOTY14). We’re narrowed down the
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Next month this blog will announce Influencer Relations’ Analyst Firm Awards for 2014 (AFOTY14). The awards aim to recognise the most valuable analyst firms, and to recognise firms that have won
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Yesterday Professor Susan E. Murphy, an internationally-respected leadership expert at Edinburgh University, gave a talk about how researchers are grown. The balance between finding mentors and working with supervisors is a key challenge
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Symantec’s EMEA comms leader Caroline Dennington and recent Gartner alum Samyr Jriri gave an impressive presentation today about analysts’ impact on sales. Context is key: analysts are increasingly stretched, something
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What are some of the things that the best researchers learn, yet some professionals never find out? What do new business researchers need to know about doing an analysis? There’s more
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One of several striking common factors, when we see the rise of newer analyst firms, is the way they are bringing together analysts to explore new value propositions. Great insights and