AR Classics: The ups and downs of using consultants to select vendors (1990)

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

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Did Apple & IBM know which analysts could trash share prices? Do you?

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

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AR Classics: Buyer beware on analyst advice

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

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Save $710 on “Maximizing The Value of Analyst Relations”

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

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Guest Post: Digital research shows AR’s tight connections

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

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AR Classics: Don’t panic if a competitor hires your Gartner analyst

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.

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German views: The analyst spider’s dense web

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

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Analysts must align vendors and IT to client needs

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

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