Influence
Verizon is the highest profile mover this month and has raced upto the 3rd spot in the Lighthouse Telcoms Index this month. The firm has teamed up with networking giant Cisco (ranked 15th this month) to offer new productivity enhancing services and has also been recognized for its environmental initiatives. Sony Ericsson has also improved…
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve helped run a few in-house analysts relations workshops for clients (along with Efrem Mallach and ex-Ovum analyst Alban Thurston) all of which have touched on how spokespeople can develop more influential and insightful relationships with analysts. Taking an Appreciative Inquiry approach, at most of the workshops we had…
SAS is the biggest gainer this month in the Lighthouse Software Index. Helped by Gartner’s categorization of the firm as a visionary in the “Magic Quadrant for Data Integration” the firm has shot up 26 positions and is ranked 32 this month. Autodesk, which has announced availability of its Building Information Modeling software for Windows…
Lighthouse’s Advisor Spotlight continues this month with our annual survey of Yankee Group, on Thursday September 23. What a year it’s been! Last year, Yankee’s opportunities and issues were very clear. Yankee’s development looked positive to AR managers in 2007. Now things are not so rosy.
SanDisk is the biggest gainer this month in the Lighthouse Systems Index. The hostile bid SanDisk is facing from Samsung is likely to have increased analyst focus on the firm, hence its increase in 7 positions. The highest profile mover this month is EMC; moving up 3 positions to the 7th spot. The firm has…
On Thursday 30 October I will be on the panel of a discussion on how communications people survive recession? It’s hosted by the London PR & Branding group, a 700-strong networking group here. This is how the event is promoted: Managers, agencies, entrepreneurs and employees face a dramatically different landscape this winter. Join this meeting…
The IIAR is launching the AR Café with an opportunity to meet Forrester Research Vice President and Principal Analyst, Ray Wang, on November 11th in London. The AR Café is a chance for IIAR members (only!) to meet analysts and network with other members in an informal setting, and locations will depend on analyst and…
IIAR, the institute of analyst relations, has set up an online networking group at XING, the main business networking site for continental Europe. You can join the group by visiting https://www.xing.com/net/iiar/. So far the group’s members are mainly in Germany and the UK, and it may be a very effective way for members of DARA…