Which analysts are most influential
1100 people told Kea Company how they feel about the current playing field. Of course Kea would like to share these results with you. I know for a fact that no other firm has this in-depth, unbiased, information from users of vendors and buy-side in one document. In our “Research Report with in-depth analysis” we…
Two distinct analyst firm business models have arisen: one which only works with scale, and the other which is immune to competition from the large firms. That is an explicit finding of this year’s Analyst Value Survey, but it only became apparent to me after hearing Sampsa Hyysalo explain the history of the karakat. Hyysalo…
In September 2014 Phil Fersht at HfS Research published some charts which showed its lead position as the firm had increased the most in influence over the preceding year. That’s all the more notable an accomplishment because it’s the second year they have had that position [in the Analyst Value Survey, which in 2014 was…
One of the biggest challenges, for both analysts and vendors, is when valuable technologies are mistakenly considered to be total failures if they have limited commercial adoption. A great example of that is WiBro, a portable internet service launched commercially in Korea after a national R&D programme. It supported video-on-demand, video telephony and broadcasting in…
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 for researchers of all fields, from industry specialists like analysts, through think tank members and on to hard-core academics. Few analysts have the time to…
The 2014 Analyst Value Survey is now available. Survey participants will get a summary later this week, but the full results are available from Kea Company. Over the last year the slides were used over 10,000 times, and we had a lot of feedback. We’ve found that the raw charts were often used without context, and…
Yesterday I spent a couple of hours with Rick Nash discussing AR and Analyst Relationship Maturity. Rick is a Kansas City-based AR leader. Like many, he uses a relationship ladder to track the progress that he makes in building rapport with analysts. I coined the phrase Analyst Relationship Maturity back in 2005 and developed a…
In a discussion at the Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh on September 19, Efrem Mallach outlined his 40 years in the industry to a seminar room crowded with technology researchers. The university is Europe’s largest centre for IT research. Efrem’s second job was in Honeywell; he ended up as a manager of competitive analysis. In…