If your firm winning the battle of ideas?
This week we’re reviewing some responses to our Analyst Attitude Survey, and we’ve just posted a video to explain the survey and how it works. One of the huge surprises for me, year after year, in every market, is IBM’s leadership. Even in areas like telecoms networking, where IBM is not a leading player, it’s one…
Yesterday a Boston Globe website reported Netscout’s case against Gartner, making public the allegations that Gartner’s research harmed Netscout’s reputation in retribution for Netscout’s refusal to increase its investment in Gartner services. While the case is not a re-run of ZL Technology‘s ill-fated case against Gartner, it is unlikely to win in court, change Gartner or improve Netscout’s…
“Everything that has been disseminated for free this past year has been excellent. Gartner and Forrester material is either dated, too high level, not believable, or tailored to small companies only.” This comment to the Analyst Value Survey from a frustrated senior manager in one of the world’s biggest enterprises really struck the same note…
For several years in the 1990s I shared a household with an old golden retriever named Murphy. Murphy had ESP. He’d know exactly where one of us would want to be in five minutes. He would position himself right there, in the way. It didn’t matter if the place was the refrigerator, the best chair…
With over 200 participants from 20 countries (half from the USA) this year’s Analyst Value Survey is already the biggest yet. We’re getting great data, and some very insightful comments from vendors, businesses, public sector and non-profit organisation and even analysts (whose fascinating responses we will subtract from the final data presented on this blog)….
As readers of this blog will know, the Analyst Value Survey is the only public survey into how people value different analyst firms like Gartner and Forrester. I’ve been running it since 2001, and around 3,000 professionals read the results of the 2012 survey. You can see a summary at influencerrelations.com/1886 . I’ll present the 2013 results for…
When Efrem Mallach and I presented Analyst Attitude Survey data at the AR Forum in London, we saw that one of the top issues for many AR teams continues to be understanding analysts in growth markets, and especially in the Asia-Pacific (APac) region. Efrem was this challenge when he ran similar surveys in the 1990s…
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