Nancy Shapira-Aronovic, a Tel Aviv partner of Knowledge Capital Group, has triggered an interesting discussion on her blog. She asks readers what they think of KCG’s view that vendors cannot buy the opinions of Forrester and Gartner’s research and advisory services. The discussion is here. She’s cites KCG’s Bill Hopkins making the comment in respect…
One big difference between different analysts is the attitude they take towards each others’ research. Lighthouse’s free research tracking service, the Spotlight, includes our selection of the most notable research published in our four focus areas: telecoms, systems, services and software. Some analysts love the idea; other don’t. Linda and Doreen, two of our research…
Unisys has finally dethroned Accenture as the number 1 firm in the Lighthouse Services Index. Apart from being mentioned very positively in a case study relating to the outsourcing efforts of US Department of Health and Human Services, the firm has also won new contracts to jump up 4 positions and claim the number 1…
CoreMedia, my first client here at Lighthouse, is hiring. It’s an amazing chance to experience an inspiring and quite open organisational culture, and to live in one of the world’s best cities – Hamburg, Germany. They are hiring a Product Marketing Manager, User Experience Designer and a Global Product Manager. This is what they have…
Carter’s comments on how AR should respond to budget cuts should encourage AR directors to take a fundamental look at their AR programmes. We still think that most analyst relations effort is wasted. From top-to-bottom, AR professionals should review the goals, the challenges and the solutions – and take a realistic assessment of the internal…
A quick post… Anyone looking for a good example of the sort of newsletter to send to analysts should take a look at the AR newsletter Gartner sends. It’s nicely done.
We have recently raised the issue of how to relate to analysts who are bloggers with a few of our peers. We wanted to see if the situation has moved on much from Tim’s PR Hype Cycle, and it has. Quite a few of them seemed to be concerned with the move towards more reporting…
The biggest gainer this month is Telecom Italia which has gained 8 positions this month. The firm has announced a radical reorganization of its infrastructure in a bid to sort out its financial troubles. PCCW has also gained 7 positions and is now ranked at 23rd spot. The firm has won a series of awards…