On December 17 we ran a webinar to take a closer look at Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC). Close watchers of the services industry will need no introduction to PAC, one
It was the best of Gartner; it was the worst of Gartner. It was the AR Forum of wisdom; it was the AR Forum of foolishness. Analyst Relations managers crowded
The annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo has a rather different air about it this year: numbers are down (I hear there are around 5,000 people although it always feels smaller to me
By launching the first independent Analyst Relations Certification (ARC) scheme, the Institute for Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) has brought the analyst relations community hugely forward. Before today, there were two
Impact of social media is overestimated in the short-term and overestimated in the long-term: what was the message from the Oxford Social Media Conference last week. I was lucky to
Duncan Chapple’s webinar on Gartner ended with a powerful discussion between participants on the company’s strategy. This memorandum summarises some of the comments made in the webinar presentation and discussion.
Last week’s meeting of the IIAR invited a delegation from Datamonitor, including John Leigh, who heads the tech research at Datamonitor and its Ovum and Butler brands, and David Mitchell
Since our December survey we’ve seen increasing numbers of AR teams trying to move away from tracking their own efforts and trying to see how they are moving relative to
