Industry analyst firms, like Gartner, AMR, Forrester, and Ovum represent a multi-billion dollar market of specialist advisory firms that consult to large enterprises on the basis of an independent research
We continue to campaign about the need for an “Analyst Relations Process Model”. The basic idea is that there are five key activities in AR. Most firms are not addressing
Kable, the European analyst house focussed on the public sector, is continuing with The Ideal Government Project. I seem to recall that originally it was an eight week experiment in
Forrester Research’s long-term commitment to building up the ARM Council over the last two years gives a good idea of the effort required to develop the kind of critical mass
Bloor Research is back, big time, with new leadership and a Cunning Plan. A long conversation with Bloor Research’s CEO, Justin Speake, and founder Robin Bloor left me wondering whether
Network World this week carries an interesting quotation from John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School and CareGroup Healthcare System in Boston. “We had been buying into research firms because
An interesting comment arrived today from a reader in Germany (After the US, the country with the most readers of this blog at the moment) who has been looking at
Gartner has some fresh competition in Germany. This month Meton Group has launched, named after the Greek astronomer and mathematician Meton, on whose calculations the Greek calendar was based. It
