Ovum agreed plans for an IPO in February at its annual shareholders’ meeting last Friday. The telecoms and software advisory and consulting firm has been discussing with some financial advisors

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Lighthouse’s AR Intranet has had an major upgrade to mark the opening of the second half. The intranet includes a listing of 505 analyst firms, would be analyst firms, and

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Our annual analyst attitude survey for services was launched with a conference call yesterday. Donna Stein, former AR head at 3Com and Lucent, and I gave the key findings of

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Pleon hosted a meeting for its UK alumni last night. This PR business of the BBDO advertising giant acquired the European business of Brodeur, where I and a few of

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Blogs don’t give their readers much of a feeling of community: even though hundreds of people stop by to read, it’s hard to get a flavour of who else shares

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On Friday I hosted a lunchtime seminar for several Silicon Valley analyst relations professionals to assess the challenges that the META-Gartner acquisition produces, both for analyst relations professionals and for

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While the idea of a Public Relations Process Model has existed for almost 20 years, little public work has been done to discuss and develop a model for optimal analyst

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I had a great comment today from an analyst in Germany, who says to me: “You point out that companies like bundles of research and consulting. At least for Germany,

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