Analyst Relations is Not a Billion Dollar Club

If we would receive a free lunch every time a Tech SME owner says “So you are in Analyst Relations, so mainly high-end customers, right?”, we’d be eating for free

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Saying farewell to David Bradshaw

A funeral and celebration for David Bradshaw (shown left) is to take place at West Norwood Crematorium, London SE27 at 2.45pm on Tuesday 23rd August and after at the Amba

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David Bradshaw 1953-2016

David Bradshaw, one of the colleagues I worked with during my time as an analyst at Ovum, died on August 11. He led Cloud research in Europe for IDC, whose

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AR managers are failing with consulting firms

Reflecting the paradoxical position of many clients, Kea’s Analyst Attitude Survey also goes to a wide range of consultants who play similar roles to analysts and are often employed by

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Fersht: some IIAR award-winners “just tick the boxes”

Some of the firms mentioned by the IIAR’s analyst team awards fall short of excellence. That’s the verdict of several hundred analysts who took our Analyst Attitude Survey, and of

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Do the IIAR awards simply reward large firms?

The 2016 Institute for Industry Analyst Relations’ awards seem to be rewarding firms for the scale of their analyst relations, rather than their quality. In a blog post on July

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Recently, there has been a lot of debate on “Bimodal IT” as two of the leading industry analyst firms have proposed diametrically opposite views. Bimodal IT is the practice of

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A podcast with Philip Carter from IDC (part 2)

Welcome back to the second episode of our new podcast series with Duncan Chapple (Managing Partner, Kea Company) and Philip Carter (Chief Analyst, IDC). As an EMEA chief analyst, Philip

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