Webinar on AR in France, with Julie Desbenoit
Julie Desbenoit and I are hosting a webinar on Tuesday 2 February to discuss the specificities of analyst relations in France. Julie is a…
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Gartner, HfS, Forrester & NelsonHall top 2016 Services Awards
The Services Analyst Firm Awards are out! The users of analysts’ services in the services industries are a little different from the others. Research…
Ten free tickets available for the AR Forum
A post on the Horses for Sources blog this morning is giving away ten free seats for the Analyst Relations Forum. Phil Fersht writes:- I’m…
Should AR put Tragic Quadrant easy analysts first?
A key criterion of the IIAR’s Tragic Quadrant (TQ) is that AR people should prioritise analysts, and analyst firms, who are easy to do business…
Apple’s 90 billion reasons to be more open
Shares in Apple rose $90bn in 24 hours when the firm took the unusual step of sharing more information than normal over the firm’s…
Was MicroStrategy’s best pitch to analysts actually the worst?
I thought it was the best analyst briefing ever, but was it the worst? I’m not so sure after speaking with Marian Gatzweiler. Gatzweiler…
H1 Influence Quadrant Shows Lenovo, EY and Huawei rising
Lenovo, EY and Huawei are the big winners in the Influence Quadrant for the first half of 2015. The study draws on over 100,000…
Guest post: Don’t settle for horizontal analysts
Many thanks to Evan Quinn at QAD for allowing us to publish this post disputing the recent post on vertical analysts. There is “very little…
Analysts firms are less vertical than the vendors
Few analysts following high-technology industries tend to follow vertical markets, mainly because there’s very little verticalized technology. For example, the construction market is perhaps…
Answering analyst relations’ timeless questions
Over the last 12 years, my colleagues and I have run dozens of webinars and telephone conferences to address the most frequently asked questions…
Guest post: Do Chinese managers use communication channels differently?
Chinese businesses and consumers have on their hands similar channels of communication as we do. However, did you know they are often used in…
Seven factors that predict business growth: Webinar on the PROCESS wheel
On our free webinar on June 25th, KPMG and Shell alumna Rosemary Cooper-Clark will explain a method to review the key elements that drive…