It’s Not That Simple, writes Efrem Mallach. Since World War II, the growth of management consulting has literally skyrocketed. At the beginning of this decade management consulting was a $32 billion industry. In the five ensuing years its economic growth had doubled.(n1) And nowhere has the impact of this growth made more of a mark…
You probably don’t know all the investor-savvy analysts pushing down tech share prices. Apple’s shocking $40bn share price fall in through September and mid-October wasn’t simply about actors’ privacy. And the $20bn wiped off IBM’s share price on October 18 wasn’t just about sluggish sales. These are the series in a number of tech firms that have suffered…
Admit it. You’re an advice junkie. Need proof? The industry analyst business rakes in more than $I billion annually, mostly from IS managers who seek advice on trends, vendors and products. Consultants take in even more for advice tailored to specific situation. If you spend that much on advice, you pay attention to it. Vendors…
Originally $748, $38 is the new price for ‘Maximizing The Value of Analyst Relations‘, one of the most insightful books I’ve ever reviewed about AR. It’s now available as a pdf from this website.
The Analyst Relations Forum on Twitter It is now relatively common that conversations happening at events can be captured on Social Networking Sites such as Twitter as well as physically in the room. What we want to demonstrate here is the potential of social media monitoring tools for analysing remote events. This post will showcase…
After Gartner’s French Caldwell retired he joined MetricStream, one of the GRC vendors he followed for Gartner. Folk are often surprised when top analysts move over to the supplier side. Howard Dresner, one of the best known analysts in any field, surprised a lot of people when he left Gartner to join Hyperion. While it’s only…
I recently discovered a useful article drawing together the views in several German-language publications about analysts and analyst relations. Few people who read this blog can read German, so I though it would be helpful to give readers a flavour of the paper, since it gives a good idea of how AR is viewed by many in the vendor…
Over the last few years, buyers have found that IT vendors are aggressive, arrogant, ignorant and over-promising. That was the clear picture presented by a large survey of IT buyers and CIOs I worked on. The research surveyed over 250 UK executives with IT responsibility in £50m+ businesses (half were at least ten times that…