Being able to spot what’s hot and what’s not is key to staying at the forefront of analysts’ sales recommendations. That’s why we are pleased to announce the Influencer Quadrant.
The analyst relations community is slowly emerging from a prolonged battering. Budgets have been in short supply and spokespeoples’ time has been fought for in many companies. At the same
A new second tier of analyst firms is being formed by the recession. Companies like Canalys, PAC and the newly independent Ovum are expanding into space relinquished or ignored by
Last week’s launch of Yankee Group’s affiliate network is an interesting response to a number of challenges that other analyst firms face. Certainly the network is a reaction to Yankee’s
Three Yankee Group vice-presidents and two independent European analysts are the first members of the firm’s affiliate network. As Lighthouse clients heard in July, the firm’s restructuring produced numerous rumours,
Yankee’s Group’s summer repositioning and restructuring has, more or less, completed the firm’s evolution from a full-service analyst and consulting firm into a data-driven research and advisory firm focussed on
This story caught my eye today: “Forrester Research has the highest gross margin the IT Consulting Industry“. Over the last two years of economic difficulty, Gartner and Forrester have almost
After Forrester’s purchase of Springboard Research and PAC’s purchase of Berlecon, it’s clear that the resurgence of M&A activity outside the US is also influencing the analyst industry. However, there’s
