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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

