Ovum Consulting grows 23%
Ovum Consulting will be one topic of interest to Ovum shareholders at its AGM later this month. The firm’s accounts make interesting reading. Despite…
Yahoo’s PR team discovers another way to get AR wrong
Charlene Li’s Blog: Pending Yahoo! personalized search announcement is worth reading. I’ve followed the ‘paper trail’ from Yahoo’s PR agency, and could not resist…
Blogs’ Impact on Analyst Relations
Blogs’ Impact on Analyst Relations reflects some interesting triumphalism from Yahoo’s PRs. I’ve reposted it below. Blogs’ Impact On Analyst Relations Kevin Dugan Expert…
Reputation Management, a view from the University of Zurich
We can recommend readers look at Reputation Constitution, Issues Monitoring and Issues Management in Media Society (published by the University of Zurich). Pleon, the…
Ethics in analyst relations
This is an article I mentioned in a workshop this week, giving IDB’s view of issues confronted by Oracle and the analysts facing it….
Analysts: a $15 billion market?
Pleon says that Decision making is not getting any easier – Analysts help buyers make a vendor or product selection. An interesting comment, from…
Former AR leader becomes Vocent CEO
We read that Vocent Appoints Jeff Scheel as CEO and Secures Additional Financing. CRM vendor Vocent has appointed a leading sales and marketing guru…
Datamonitor buys Butler
Datamonitor – Corporate Announcements: After the recent purchase of META by Gartner, Datamonitor (which has bought Computerwire) announced the purchase of Butler Group. Strategically,…
EDS releases Q3 2004 results after battle with auditors
EDS releases Q3 2004 results after battle with auditors. This is another interesting article from Ovum: it shows the increasing trend of analysts to…
Fighting for government contracts
Fighting for government contracts: This is a very interesting development: The NHS has appointed Ovum as the go-to people for suppliers interested in selling…
Weblogs and Best Practices
Analyst Weblogs and AR Best Practices | Analyst Cafe: Tekrati Tips A very nice set of tips, including: Track down the blogs your analysts…
Biovail: the first victim of analysts’ new "Tough Love"
The last two weeks have been a horrid time for Biovail. The firm’s reaction to a negative analyst report was aggressive and emotional, reflecting…