The Cunning Plan of Bloor Research
Bloor Research is back, big time, with new leadership and a Cunning Plan. A long conversation with Bloor Research’s CEO, Justin Speake, and founder…
An AR association will be hard work
ARmadgeddon’s post about the development of an AR association not only cited this blog (and neutrally, for once) but also got me thinking about…
The continuing rise of the ’boutiques’
Network World this week carries an interesting quotation from John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School and CareGroup Healthcare System in Boston. “We had…
How world class AR grows telecoms firms 280% faster
Telecommunications and networking are two of the markets where analyst influence is the highest – and where analyst relations makes the biggest difference to…
What does outsourcing mean to German research buyers?
An interesting comment arrived today from a reader in Germany (After the US, the country with the most readers of this blog at the…
What sort of AR association is needed?
After reading this post on ARmadgeddon a few weeks ago, the same topic came up in conversation with Bill Hopkins this week. Bill is…
Meta succeeded by Meton
Gartner has some fresh competition in Germany. This month Meton Group has launched, named after the Greek astronomer and mathematician Meton, on whose calculations…
Rendez-vous in Singapore
Singapore is the next port of call for Lighthouse’s popular training seminar on Influencing Industry Analysts Worldwide. The other principal of Lighthouse AR, Efrem…
An interesting approach from CARMA
I’ve had a fascinating discussion today with a US analyst relations manager today who led me to this case study from CARMA. Despite a…
What encourages analysts’ offshoring
Yogesh Pathak, CEO and founder of Path KPO Solutions, came in to brief Lighthouse this morning on a break from meeting clients in London….
Oracle freezes out Bloor Research
Bloor and Oracle seem to be in a war of words. According to Bloor’s technology Research Director, Philip Howard, “Oracle doesn’t like my suggesting…
Gartner Curries the Magic Quadrant
Gartner has announced a series of changes to its Magic Quadrant (MQ) and MarketScope (MS). In a nutshell, the key changes are these: 1….