A week in the Munich area, meeting up with analysts and AR professionals there, shows how the business culture in Europe’s German-speaking region poses some special challenges to both analysts and to AR professionals. Not the least of these is the need to communicate with the English, who dominate the region’s analyst community. Germany’s strong…
When surveying analysts, many AR managers are uncertain about how many analysts need to be surveyed for the results to be significant. Few AR managers are interested by statistical theory, and statistics is an area where intuition is greatly misleading. When firms are aiming at a small number of analysts, it’s a non-problem. If you’re…
The open source approach to industry analysis is an interesting approach to exploiting the power of the internet to analyse a product/vendor. Recently, a number of leading figures in the analyst industry have come together to produce a wiki guide to open source analysts. At its core of those firms’ mission is the belief that…
After two months in third position, Motorola has managed to up its game, increase its share of voice and beat Ericsson for the second spot. Nokia are still ahead in pole position. Enterasys, AT&T and Brazil Telecom have performed exceptionally well. Between them, they have risen a total of 28 places in this month’s Index…
Many of the people I’ve discussed with over the last week in New York stress the deep impact of an unfolding decelleration in the US economy. But what will be impact be on analyst relations? Since many other major economies are in a pretty good condition, it’s easy to think from the outside that the…
There has been considerable movement in this month’s Software Index. Microsoft, Oracle and SAP still retain the top three places whilst BEA maintains its ninth position. After that, it’s all change in the top 25. The biggest climber was Check Point Software which increased its share of voice by eight places and entered the top…
February’s GSMA‘s world congress, 3GSM, is set for record attendance. After 50,000 attendees last year, at least 57,000 are expected this year. Lighthouse principal consultant, John Moroney, will report from the event for Analyst Equity: drop us a line if you’d like to meet with him there. The growth of the event seems pretty unstoppable…
Analysys Research, the telecoms market intelligence and analysis business of Analysys Mason Group, has hired Tony Lavender as Managing Director and Jason Kowal as its US head. As mentioned this week, Lavender’s departure from Ovum was agreed half a year ago and reflects the Analysys Mason Group’s continuing commitment to its business mix. This hybrid…