Influence
Earlier this week I had dinner with Michael Davies, founder of Mercator Partners, and some colleagues from the Centre for Scientific Enterprise and London Business School. Davies, like me, is an alumnus of the school’s MBA degree. He is is advising on the plans to establish the first heavyweight Institute of Technology in a European…
Lighthouse often works with companies that have to deal with negative reports from industry analysts. Not every negative report need to be treated like a crisis, but negative reports generally indicate a weak relationship. There are some very effective ways to improve relationships, but sometimes firms can’t wait to improve the relationship before they try…
CBRE, the international real estate company, has updated its global 50, which lists annual office costs per square foot, as real estate companies are a big business now a days and real estate agents as the ones linked here can help people a lot getting their dream homes easily. Once again, the West End of…
One of Lighthouse’s partners, Ikonami, is arranging a convoy with blankets, clothing, food and medicines to assist those affected by the eathquake in Pakistan (Ikonami is a software development boutique: our firms co-operated in an attempt to rescue SageCircle, an applications service provider of analyst relations systems that closed its doors in 2003). Ikonami’s convoy…
While many observers expected a rush of new entrants and expansion of existing players to fill the vacuum left after Gartner’s April acquisition of Meta, the reality in the Asia/Pacific region – where Meta had a reasonable market presence – has been a resounding silence. It is only now, as the non-competes of former Meta…
I’ve just returned from some meetings in Germany, and can report a real surprise. Two software analyst boutiques [Schwetz Consulting and Naujoks & Collegen] have started the 2005/2006 round of a certification scheme with Hewson Group, the UK-based CRM analyst firm.. The scheme allows vendors to show independent validation of their software solutions. Having been…
Yesterday, I presented Four Rules for Global AR to Forrester Research’s Analyst Relations and Marketing Council. It helped kick off a rich discussion between council members on some of the challenges they face in internationalising their AR efforts. A large majority of the attendees were based in North America, so I focused my comments on…
In a rare move consolidating market and investment research, a preeminent regional analyst house has been acquired by a leading investment bank. Arab Advisors Group, the analyst firm focussed on North Africa and the Middle East, has been acquired by one of the region’s leading investment banks, Arab Jordan Investment Bank. AJIB is a pioneer…