An American colleague working from Lighthouse’s London office today had what he called “a classic English moment”. London is not a hot city in any meaning sense of the word. Today is one of the hottest days of the year, yet we have just 88 degrees Farenheit and 31% humidity; it is less comfortable in…
This morning I met up with a client to ask her feedback of some changes we’ve had to our Analyst Attitude Surveys surveys of analysts. I came away with good news.. and bad news. The good news is that she thinks our survey is much improved ‘head and shoulders above’ where were were a couple…
The chart on the right hand side shows the ten systems suppliers with the highest profile in analyst research over the last six weeks. It is an extract from the System Index, one of our monthly share of voice measurements, which we call the Analyst Index suite. In July’s top ten Systems Index analysts seem…
This blog is now attracting around 2,000 unique visitors each month: that’s a 15% increase on last quarter, and roughly double the readership we had at the end of last year. Last month was our all time record, with almost 4,000 page views. The increasing popularity of the blog always interests us, especially because it…
Anthony Parslow, previously Chief Operating Officer at Forrester Research Europe, has left the firm for the mother of all road trips. Anthony, seen here on the right, is one of five driving a 1988 white Daihatsu Hijet from London to Mongolia, which is celebrating its 800th anniversary this year. Their 12,000 km journey is raising…
Our Analyst Value Survey (AVS) considers itself to be independent from the analyst firms. Every year or so an analyst will ask if we are, sometimes directly or more often not. It’s almost always a response to the same stimulus: our annual survey of users of analysts’ services and insights: a large majority of the…
Although there is hardly any change at the top of the chart, the players in the lower division are making impressive improvements. An outstanding result for HP Services as analysts’ interest heats up and ranks HP Services at the 10th position. Moreover slowly but surely Unisys, IBM, Deloitte and Bearing Point all move up by…
What happens when everyone one uses the same ‘rule of thumb’? Most of us use general principles to simplify the complexity around us. But if almost all of use make the same simplifications, and we base our work on that which is most obvious, then someone else benefits from that which is least obvious. Analyst…