As predicted, there’s a lot of change at Ovum as its purchase by Datamonitor moves ahead. Chief Research Officer, Tony Lavender, has been set to leave the company since the summer. However, the news follows the recent departure of Daniel Bieler, Ovum’s research director in Germany covering the telecoms market. Other long-time Ovum staff leaving…
If you can spare a few minutes, take a look as this video demonstration of IBM’s digital pen solution. I was a big fan of IBM’s 1990s work in this area, which used some of the machine learning algorithms I used back then, and was an early adopter of the solution based on IBM Ink…
Dell regains its third spot in this month’s Systems Index which has been relatively stable. The top ten firms are virtually identical to those topping last month’s chart and, unusually for any of the Indexes that we publish, there hasn’t been a single new entrant into the top 25. Unsurprisingly, Nintendo leapt six spots in…
The big service companies’ profile in analyst research remains pretty much as last month. Accenture tops the pile with EDS second and CSC third. More interestingly, Wipro snuck in to the top ten in December. This is no doubt in part due to its announcement of a strategic partnership with ITV to develop a platform…
The chart on the left shows the location of 500 frequent visitors to this blog. As you can imagine, in conurbations quite a few of the dots are covered by other dots. However, the chart is still a good illustration of how widely distributed the industry analysis community is. Most of our readers don’t come…
The PR industry has stopped growing. The annual PR Consultants Analysis, which reviews the top 1000 PR consultancies, is an annual study whose 2006 findings were also depressing. The 2007 report states that average sales growth has fallen to zero. Pre-tax margins remain around 4%. Roughly two companies in five experienced falling sales last year….
Lighthouse’s regular CIO surveys continue to show that the international influence on buyers of blogs, and even of analysts’ blogs, is still modest. There’s a significant difference between the impact that different ‘channels’ of information have and, even if the number of readers is the same, the impact of the average blog posting is lower…
Industry veterans Barbara French and Neil Macehiter are amongst those co-operating in a new wiki that aims to create a guide for enterprises doing business with analysts with ‘open source’ business models (other participants include Jon Collins, Dave Vile, James Governor, myself and others). It’s an innovative approach and we’re encouraging folk to take part….