Buying Experton brings ISG to EMEA supply side

Experton’s purchase by ISG is an excellent move, if it can hold on to the Experton team. The Analyst Value Survey shows that it fills a substantial gap in ISG’s services, giving

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AVS shows Gartner fumbles new coverage areas

We recommend that analyst relations teams hold regular strategy workshops using the Analyst Value Survey to refocus their analyst relations efforts. Analyst firms and topics change in importance, as do

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Mentoring analysts without their permission?

Mentoring has many aspects: skill development, personal growth and career advancement are all addresses. Some senior industry analysts have coaches, most often paid professionals who help them to work through

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AR in France has five differences

Julie Desbenoit and I have identified five key differences about analyst relations in France. Julie’s been helping my colleagues Oscar, Emma and Elisa, who are working on a new Kea

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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 French marketing communications professional with unusually

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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 and advisory days are, by far,

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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 pleased that I’ll be in London

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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 with. It’s obvious that we prefer

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