Arbitrage for Tech Analyst Relations

Arbitrage tactics can help your analyst relations team to profit from other people’s mistaken valuations. My research at the University of Edinburgh Business School shows vendors generally over-allocate their time

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Webinar: Prioritize analysts better, or waste your AR effort

Most analyst relations effort is wasted because of the failure to prioritize analysts. AR effort isn’t allocated in line with analysts’ true importance to the specific goals of the AR

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Life Sciences IQ: Which firms win profile in analyst research?

On September 20th Kea Company will publish the last of three ‘Influencer Quadrant‘ reports to identify the firms with the most profile in industry research. The Life Sciences IQ compares

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CXP Group advances in Analytics & Big Data Analyst Firm Awards

The 2017 Analyst Firm Awards for Analytics and Big Data seem to be rewarding firms that are most deeply engaged in conversations with clients. The top ten firms are notable

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Save the date for our 2017 Analyst Firm Awards

This year we’re publishing the Analyst Firm Awards more or less monthly. Each award recognizes the ten firms delivering the most value in that category, according to respondents to the

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IDC could flourish after IDG’s sale to Chinese consortium

As we predicted in our April Fool’s Joke last year, IDC has been sold as part of a Chinese-led purchase that leaves CEO Kirk Campbell at the helm. IDG Capital

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IDC overtakes HfS in 2017 global Analyst Firm Awards

The 2018 Global Analyst Firm Awards have superseded the post below. Gartner and Forrester’s leadership is no surprise, but IDC has won back third place in the 2017 Analyst Firm

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I see IDC as just part of the M&A process

The April Fool’s posts from the IIAR and this blog about the future sale of IDC showed more than levity. The changing dynamics of analyst value are producing big shifts

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