Analyst relations is often a career silo. As a result, professionals often need to look for other areas into which their skills transfer. In this video (perhaps better for last thing on Friday) you can see another interesting parallel.In this video the Zookeeper at ZSL London Zoo discusses Gorilla Relations.There are some interesting points about…
Sony Ericsson is the biggest gainer this month with a jump of 11 positions. The firm has reported a decline in the number of units shipped last quarter but its announcement to join the Open Handset Alliance has helped it to improve its profile with the analysts. Vodafone, which has been holding trials to improve…
Rich Sturm, CEO and founder of Enterprise Management Associates, and I have been discussing a recent article in which I point out that most analyst firms get a third of their revenue from vendors. Spending by vendors is much more visible, because that’s what vendors pay for – visibility in the events, research and quotations…
Lighthouse’s Torsten Sewing will be in Hanover, Germany next month meeting delegates at the CeBIT fair. If you want to meet up – perhaps to get a local perspective on what’s happening in central Europe – then give him a call on +49 16 3264 5555. There are even some free tickets available. Exhibitor bookings…
CA has managed to move up 2 positions this month and is now ranked 5th in the Lighthouse Software Index. The boost in the firm’s ranking has come from analyst focus on its acquisition of Orchestria and its virtual systems management solutions. VMware, which reported a solid quarter of improved earnings, has also gone up…
Show me the money! AR professionals need to start talking more about changes on the industry side, on the analysts’ side. How things are changing for analysts – as businesses – is key. I think a lot of what AR folk are comfortable talking about is really about the interaction between the analyst and the…
Telesperience, the podcast newsletter about the telecommunications industry, has interviewed Lighthouse’s Duncan Chapple and Sun’s Gordon Davies about the impact of industry analysts. Chapple was interviewed by his former Ovum colleague Teresa Cottam, who now runs Microsperience, who asked him to define what an analyst is and to explain how companies are building relationships with…
Duncan Chapple and Marius Jost discuss how analyst firms are changing in a recently-recorded podcast. In the mp3 recording, the two former analysts discuss what what means for the way that end-users ‘consume’ analyst services. In less than 15 minutes, the two analyst relations experts spotlight six major trends unfolding in today’s past-changing analyst industry….