Guest post: Bram Weerts on the AVS

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

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Parables: Sampsa Hyysalo on the karakat

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

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AR Classics: What the arrival of HFS Research tells us about freemium

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

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When failures are not really failures: the parable of WiBro

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

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How can analysts and research directors work well together?

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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Analyst Value Survey now available

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

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AR gets firms in the room, but it’s the spokespeople who convince

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

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Efrem Mallach on 40 years in and around the analyst industry

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

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