Which analysts are most influential
An increasing amount of analyst relations effort is being focussed on Asia-Pacific, and Lighthouse is extending its reach into the region (more of that alliance with EASTWEST here). Over the last two year, we’ve had three researchers working in the region helping clients to respond to the market’s growing opportunities. We also expanded our 2005…
One of Lighthouse’s traditions is the Boardroom: an annual working lunch for AR professionals, hosted in San Jose, CA, the week before Gartner’s Symposium. In April 2007, we met to discuss ways to maximize the value of AR in a recessionary environment. Geoff Roach is an wonderful host, and arranged a private boardroom for us…
Two firms that have both reoriented themselves over the last year, Jupiter and Yankee, are developing similarly deep focus on online, business-to-consumer, technologies. It’s less of an evolution for Jupiter (whose announced name-change from Jupiter Research to JupiterKagan seems to have not appeared) than for telecoms-specialist Yankee. That business now focuses on “anywhere” business, where…
Some folk think we are over-impressed by the novelty of Forrester’s move towards multi-vendor briefing days. Thanks to Barbara for her comment: “I’m surprised that you don’t see the Forrester Briefing Day program pretty much as an analyst implementation of a vendor AR briefing day.I don’t see much common ground with the 3rd party multi-client/multi-analyst…
Gartner, Forrester and most other analyst firms are getting increasingly open about their research schedules. This is good news for strategic AR managers, but a dangerous and disorienting temptation for amateurs. By publishing their research schedules, analyst firms are able to set their clients’ expectations, increase the pressure on analysts to deliver on time and…
Managers’ comfort with statistical information varies greatly. When shown a chart like the one on the right, they either know what questions to ask themselves, or they skip over it. In this chart, the blue line shows the performance of a firm over the last year, and the other lines try to explain the data….
Thanks to Dominic for passing me some thoughts on “Metrics Used in Analyst Relations”, copyrighted by Josh, so ask them for a copy. In a few words, he neatly summarizes the pros and cons of several metrics. When considering what might be the implications breaking the copyright law, learn from this learn course about how…
Douglas Hayward, senior analyst on the Holway@Ovum service, has left the firm to join IDC. Holway was one of Ovum’s most senior hires from the journalist community. Until 2003 he had worked on the Financial Times. During the dot.com boom, he edited the UK’s leading IT business magazine, Computing. Hayward’s ability to write well, and…