As recession edges closer a number of analysts are being tempted by better offers elsewhere. Some of the recent departures in the UK include Ovum’s Eric Woods (who leaves today

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Duncan Chapple and Aleksandra Bosnjak have been billed as speakers for for our Informa webinar on the possible sale of the firm. Since both were formerly analysts at Ovum, part

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Free analyst research isn’t “open source”

An IIAR survey has prompted the Wikinomics blog to ask “who needs analyst firms anyway“? The article echos some of the themes in Jonny’s article, In praise of open source

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The Google News Timeline feature shows the frequency with which terms appear in the media it indexes. There’s a nice example here of what we call the Tornbohm Effect, after

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AR teams need clarity about the reasons for measurement: different programmes have different objectives, so no single measurement approach will work in every context. That’s the challenge that Lighthouse’s Martin

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Informa is being bought, but by whom? United Business Media, the UK publishing giant, started the bidding and then dropped out. Now private equity groups are in play, such as

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One of the foremost services analysts in Europe, Dr Katy Ring, has joined her former Ovum colleague Gary Barnett at Bathwick Group. Bathwick is a boutique analyst firm noted for

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IIAR awards: don’t forget who the voters were

The IIAR has announced the winners of the 2008 Analyst of the Year award, on its blog. The leading award goes to R. ‘Ray’ Wang, at Forrester Research – which

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