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
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 revenue in China. There is an
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 is an award-winning research fellow at
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 data points to show which rise
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 verticalized technology?” That is patently incorrect,
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 the largest single buyer of project
Over the last 12 years, my colleagues and I have run dozens of webinars and telephone conferences to address the most frequently asked questions of analyst relations managers. This week
Chinese businesses and consumers have on their hands similar channels of communication as we do. However, did you know they are often used in slightly different ways? Grace Zhao runs
