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…
On January 26 and 28, Lighthouse will be re-running our popular courses based on Efrem Mallach’s book on analyst relations, ‘Win Them Over’, at Faneuil Hall in Boston. Since 1987, Dr. Mallach’s book has been used by hundreds of corporations and leading business schools as a survival guide to analysts and consultant relations. We will…
The biggest gainer this month in the Lighthouse Services Index is Booz. The firm was recently included in the ‘100 Best Companies for Working Mothers’ list for the 10th consecutive year. Booz has moved up 8 positions and is now ranked 29th. The market for authentication products and services is showing strong growth. This may…
On Tuesday the Lighthouse team are dining at the Institute of Directors to celebrate the firm’s tenth birthday. And there’s more grounds for celebration. Readership of this web site has doubled over the last three months, building on a long term upward trend. According to Alexa.com, the most widely used measure of web traffic, the…