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Who will police the police? AllTheAnalysts.com?
In an episode of The Simpsons when Homer creates a vigilante group to track down a cat burglar, Lisa, concerned over their abuse of power asks: “If you’re the police, who will police the police?” to which Homer replies: “I dunno, Coast Guard?” Lisa’s question is that of Juvenal: qui custodiet ipsos custodes? And I…
Analysts are less vertical than the vendors are
One of our readers emailed me to ask about analysts that cover the building and construction industry. Our research shows that very few analysts following high-technology industries tend to follow building and construction, mainly because there’s very little verticalised technology for building and construction. For example, that market is perhaps the principal buyer of project…
Gap widens between analysts’ media profile and sales impact
The chart on the left compares a group of 147 leading industry analysts according to their individual profile in the media and their impact on high-value sales. The black line shows the trend in the data: after a certain point, higher than average profile in the media is correlated with lower than average impact on…
Analysts determine opinions industry-wide
The chart on the right shows how strongly different influencers affect big-business purchasing. For a larger version, click here. The data come from an international survey of technology buyers conducted by SageCircle. SageCircle closed shortly after they shared this data with us in 2003, so I don’t know how they defined their categories. However, if…