Not Guilty: Our surveys suggest HFS is wrong to roast independents

A recent post on the HFS Research blog focusses on some independent analysts as “pay to play”.  It’s a useful post, but that key point doesn’t fit with our annual

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Can analysts fool all the people, all the time?

Teresa Cottom, my former Ovum colleague who is now Founder & Chief Strategist at Telesperience, had made some very useful criticism and comment (here, and well worth a read) about

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Building the AR community in Germany

It was my pleasure to be part of organising the IIAR webinar on February 17th which announced the launch of the IIAR’s German chapter. As someone who has studied and

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Will MBAs ever be good at Digital Marketing?

Digital marketing is now one of the few business disciplines that senior executives often mismanage totally. On February 21, I’m speaking about digital marketing to graduate students at Manchester Business School.

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Is there a pay to play problem in the analyst industry?

In the Analyst Value Survey every year, we ask participants which firms in the analyst industry are most, or least, independent. Rather unsurprisingly the biggest firms get the most votes

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Video: French, Chapple & Valuch discuss Social AR

One of the most-requested topics at the Analyst Relations Forum last year was how to combine Social Media and Analyst Relations. At the AR Leaders’ Forum the following day, we

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Video: How to maximize value for money from analyst contracts

In this one-hour video, three experts on getting the best value from analyst firms share their tips, and give insight into the realities for analysts firms and their customers. In

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Three things today’s BBC interview taught me about being an analyst

Analysts have a huge challenge in explaining technology markets, and in particular why it is that the customer isn’t always right, because high tech markets don’t work in common sense

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