Influence
The German analyst firm techconsult sent me an English-language version of a lead chart from their latest survey of SME businesses in Germany. “The prospects for the coming three months have deteriorated drastically” says Verena Bunk, a techconsult analyst. It’s fascinating for two more reasons: first, SMEs seem to be great at forecasting; second, they expect IT spending…
It’s Not That Simple, writes Efrem Mallach. Since World War II, the growth of management consulting has literally skyrocketed. At the beginning of this decade management consulting was a $32 billion industry. In the five ensuing years its economic growth had doubled.(n1) And nowhere has the impact of this growth made more of a mark…
You probably don’t know all the investor-savvy analysts pushing down tech share prices. Apple’s shocking $40bn share price fall in through September and mid-October wasn’t simply about actors’ privacy. And the $20bn wiped off IBM’s share price on October 18 wasn’t just about sluggish sales. These are the series in a number of tech firms that have suffered…
Originally $748, $38 is the new price for ‘Maximizing The Value of Analyst Relations‘, one of the most insightful books I’ve ever reviewed about AR. It’s now available as a pdf from this website.
The Analyst Relations Forum on Twitter It is now relatively common that conversations happening at events can be captured on Social Networking Sites such as Twitter as well as physically in the room. What we want to demonstrate here is the potential of social media monitoring tools for analysing remote events. This post will showcase…
After Gartner’s French Caldwell retired he joined MetricStream, one of the GRC vendors he followed for Gartner. Folk are often surprised when top analysts move over to the supplier side. Howard Dresner, one of the best known analysts in any field, surprised a lot of people when he left Gartner to join Hyperion. While it’s only…
I recently discovered a useful article drawing together the views in several German-language publications about analysts and analyst relations. Few people who read this blog can read German, so I though it would be helpful to give readers a flavour of the paper, since it gives a good idea of how AR is viewed by many in the vendor…
Seattle’s Melissa Ruby wrote this for the Washington Institute of Technology magazine almost ten years ago. Then analyst relations manager for Intermec, the Honeywell business, Mel’s prior background at Edelman brought a strategic messaging approach to her AR work. Since then she’s deepened her reputation in the AR community as someone with a strong focus on demand…