Influence
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 Company service to help analyst relations managers. Julie and I have been speaking with AR professionals in France and these are the findings we both…
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 broad experience spanning information technology, biotechnology and plastics technology, and is speaking to analyst relations managers in France about the challenges they face. We can…
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, the key services according to the Analyst Value Survey but reprints, events and peer community are not so important. The top six firms are the…
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 on November 5th to share our story as I keynote the Analyst Relations Forum. My keynote, Thriving in a Market that Refuses to Change: Research-as-a-Service,…
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 easy to difficult. However, the value of analysts is relatively independent of how easy or hard they are to work with. Putting easy analysts first…
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 important lesson in that event for reputation managers, in both investor relations and in analyst relations. Markets reward openness The stock hit $111.05 on the…
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 the University of Oxford, and a tutor at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in the emergent nature of evaluation criteria. I shared with him a…
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 are rising, and falling, in analyst research. Over the next six weeks we’ll publish the findings. The chart above compares the profile of 200 leading firms…