Which analysts are most influential
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 top firms in Influencer Relations’ Analyst Firm Awards. The awards honour 18 IT and telecommunications industry analyst firms that have delivered outstanding value to their…
Analyst firms need to extend the research of their insight far beyond their customer base. There’s a lot to learn from the other research community that’s motivated by diffusion: academic researchers. It is not just the readers that count: it is their quality, the quality of understanding and the degree to which things change as…
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 shortlist to 18 firms which are in the top ten rankings for ten different categories. There’s a note about the awards here with more details….
We’ve decided to support the Movember Foundation by donating €249 from Analyst Value Survey Research Report we well. Scroll down for more information. The Analyst Value Survey (AVS) is the only public survey into how people value different analyst firms like Gartner, Forrester and dozens of mid-sized firms. The survey has been annually held since 2000. Buyers of analyst services…
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 a leading role in specific market segments. Other annual Analyst Firm awards have been tried in the past, most notably from Communications Day and the IIAR, but…
You probably don’t know all the investor-savvy analysts pushing down tech share prices. Apple’s shocking $40bn share price fall in through September and mid-October wasn’t simply about actors’ privacy. And the $20bn wiped off IBM’s share price on October 18 wasn’t just about sluggish sales. These are the series in a number of tech firms that have suffered…
The Analyst Relations Forum on Twitter It is now relatively common that conversations happening at events can be captured on Social Networking Sites such as Twitter as well as physically in the room. What we want to demonstrate here is the potential of social media monitoring tools for analysing remote events. This post will showcase…
Over the last few years, buyers have found that IT vendors are aggressive, arrogant, ignorant and over-promising. That was the clear picture presented by a large survey of IT buyers and CIOs I worked on. The research surveyed over 250 UK executives with IT responsibility in £50m+ businesses (half were at least ten times that…