When talking to IT vendors eager to grow their business I usually come across a number of common challenges they face. One of the biggest issues which lies outside the companies (as opposed to e. g. finance requirements to fund the growth or adding enough skilled people to their workforce) is that once they are…
2014 has been the breakout year for freemium analyst firms. It’s fundamentally ended the fantasy that only Gartner and Forrester were “deal-maker or breaker” firms. An excellent illustration of that is the chart below, which uses data from the Analyst Value Survey. It shows the firms where the demand-side and supply-side respondents gave the most different…
For several years in the 1990s I shared a household with an old golden retriever named Murphy. Murphy had ESP. He’d know exactly where one of us would want to be in five minutes. He would position himself right there, in the way. It didn’t matter if the place was the refrigerator, the best chair…
For this Coffee Talk we invited Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO of Greyhound Research, an independent IT & Telecom Research & Advisory firm. He also is the author of the blog As Disruptive As IT Gets.
Eight analysts and AR professionals made some great suggestions in the wake of my post on Seven mistakes that will kill your pitch to analysts. I though I’d share their ideas here. Lisa K Stapleton: I once listened to someone who said they were going to talk about four main points. As we were listening, he kind of mentioned three and…
If you think back on the many occasions when you’ve heard this phrase, or for that matter used it yourself – how many times has it been a good idea to give it a try yourself first? Trying something implies that there is the potential to try again if the first attempt fails, or where…
It is critical for Analyst Relations (AR) to thoroughly research a particular Magic Quadrant and its history. Even AR staffs that have been working with Gartner on a MQ for a long time could benefit from doing a little digging into the background of the MQ in order to separate reality from faulty memory and…
For this Coffee Talk we’ve invited Kea Company’s own Efrem Mallach. Efrem Mallach, PhD, literally wrote the book on Analyst Relations. A quarter of a century ago, Win Them Over was the first book about influencing analysts, consultants and advisors. Building on his experience at Honeywell and as an analyst, Mallach led two Analyst Relations…