Industry analysts are devoted to researching, and the volume of inquiries and briefings from established market players means many of them are booked up months in advance. Richard Stiennon’s new book, Curmudgeon, highlights how analysts find vendors, get insights into them and form their opinions. Join us on Tuesday 22 September to hear these three…
Niche analyst firms in any market can learn a lot from four factors holding back the leading specialist firms in one of the most attractive markets: fintech.
Many small and big analyst firms are researching the fintech industry and coming out with many predictions. Here are five striking predictions that have come out from industry researchers.
Why did Celent and Aite not cement their positions as hidden champions?
Since managing analyst relations for clients like Microsoft, Motorola and Kodak at CCgroup, Amjad Khan’s led AR in-house at Global Crossing and Amdocs and worked with the full range of analyst firms. In this article, Amjad made an early assessment of the new analyst firms which appeared eight to ten years ago. Navigating the new…
Forrester’s New Wave has so quickly become part of the analyst relations furniture: it’s easy to understand what a difference it makes. The New Wave is best thought of as a Wave for emerging market categories. There are four major differences. Unlike each classic Wave’s stable scope, the analyst is empowered to work with a…
If you only read one post by Simon Levin this year, this is it (Is Gartner research quality under threat?). Simon puts the current dip in the collective experience of MQ authors into context: MQ authors and leads do change regularly, and vendors need an ongoing focus on the MQ to make an impact. Andrew Hsu would also…
MWD Advisors’ analysts joined IDC last month, putting on ice one of the most respected independent analyst organisations. Neil Ward-Dutton and Craig Wentworth were two of my most impressive colleagues when we worked together in Ovum’s IT Analysis group 20 years ago, and they can only have grown in capacity since then. Moving to IDC…