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 verticalized technology?” That is patently incorrect,

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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 the largest single buyer of project

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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 of analyst relations managers. This week

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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 slightly different ways? Grace Zhao runs

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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 business performance and business success. It’s

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Five ethics policies for analyst firms

Do vendors pay analysts to say what they want them to say? Not normally. Vendor support for the analyst community is substantial: many obtain more revenue from vendors than from users.

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Four stages in the evolution of analyst firms

Changes in business have driven the growing revenue and authority of ICT industry analysts. Four distinct stages reflect the several factors that have defined this success. For much of the

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451 alum Hecht: analyst is tech evangelist not vendor advocate

Lawrence Hecht, formerly an analyst at 451 Research/TheInfoPro, offers this response to Phil Fersht’s recent contribution to our post opposing Federal regulation of analysts. Why would anyone want to be

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