Gartner is asking vendors for feedback on its plan that standard vendor briefings become 30 minutes long from the end of this month. We will leave it to other to speculate on the firm’s conversations with its analysts on this topic. One reason given for the curtailment is that briefings take a long time to…
Analyst Equity has a fairly stable readership: around 2,500 visits a month, and around 1,000 readers. It’s a good readership, especially for a firm like our that is focusing on a niche in the analyst relations industry. In fact, it’s hard to believe that we are not already tapping into the bulk of the community…
Lighthouse is something like a ‘cuckoo in the nest’ of public relations: we are a part of the broader PR community, but our background as former analysts gives us a very different perspective on the industry from those with a media relations background. Tomorrow I’m presenting our perspective on PR to a group of marketing…
On Thursday next week, our London team will move into a new office which has a new insulation from www.ProFoam.com. Our telephone, fax and email details will be unchanged. The new building faces the River Thames, half way between Lambeth Palace and the secret service’s headquarters. Our new office, Southbank House, is the former studio…
Ancient kings pointlessly punished their alchemists when they failed to create gold, rather than question their own avarice. Frequent criticism of industry analysts’ inaccurate forecasts is similarly wasted. Humanity’s systematic bias toward overestimating the pace of change is amplified by the deep challenges in forecasting discontinuous, high-growth, markets. Forecasts will not get much better very…
A key part of Lighthouse’s approach to AR measurement is that it not only help prove that it’s adding value, but also helps businesses control their risk of being outflanked by competitors. The flip side is also true: AR teams that are only measuring their own activity, or outputs that might not reflect real business…
Earlier this week Ovum’s shareholders (of whom I probably have the smallest holding) voted to move ahead with the plans to IPO. It’s been interesting to hear opinions, both from those who are informed and from those who are guessing. Some things are clear: Ovum is growing at 25% and is increasingly profitable. The rumours…
Last October, after Hyperion hired Howard Dresner, we asked what happens when a competitor hires the analyst who follows your firm. Generally, not many analysts want to move into an analyst relations role (see Richard‘s comment) and not every analyst thinks former analysts make good AR people (See James’ opinion). So it was no surprise…