Gigaom Research, where I was working as a research lead for the past several years, has ceased operations as part of the takeover of the operations of Gigaom by creditors. Obviously, the company as a whole was living beyond its means for some time, as $22 million in venture money has been burned in the…
It happens to the best of us. Your analyst relations program is humming along nicely – your analysts are behaving, your internal constituents under control – when one day, wham! You get a call from one of your SVPs sharing some exciting news! Joe Analyst, one of your company’s key advocates, has now joined your…
Forrester alumna Karin Nauth Shelley, who recently joined me here at Kea Company, has written this excellent review of The Trusted Advisor. I met the book a dozen years ago, in a master class John Brodeur taught for senior managers at Brodeur Worldwide, and join Karin in recommending it. The Trusted Advisor, by Maister, Green and…
Admit it. You’re an advice junkie. Need proof? The industry analyst business rakes in more than $I billion annually, mostly from IS managers who seek advice on trends, vendors and products. Consultants take in even more for advice tailored to specific situation. If you spend that much on advice, you pay attention to it. Vendors…
The Analyst Relations Forum on Twitter It is now relatively common that conversations happening at events can be captured on Social Networking Sites such as Twitter as well as physically in the room. What we want to demonstrate here is the potential of social media monitoring tools for analysing remote events. This post will showcase…
1100 people told Kea Company how they feel about the current playing field. Of course Kea would like to share these results with you. I know for a fact that no other firm has this in-depth, unbiased, information from users of vendors and buy-side in one document. In our “Research Report with in-depth analysis” we…
This site’s ongoing comment war about Constellation Research has spotlit the firm’s use of a psychometric tool. Mark Talaba is Executive Vice President at The Gabriel Institute, the creators of the Teamability tool, sent this comment to Duncan Chapple by email, and permission to publish it here. A friend forwarded ‘Debate:…Constellation?‘ to me, mainly because our product was…
As we mentioned earlier this month, Leslie Ament has some blunt comments about what AR people need to know, both about analysts in general and about Hypatia Research Group specifically. Many thanks to her for the comment below. In the interest of transparency, here are our observations and suggestions: Most analyst relations professionals on the vendor-side do…