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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Guest post: Bram Weerts on the AVS

1100 people told Kea Company how they feel about the current playing field. Of course Kea would like to share these results with you. I know for a fact that

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Parables: Sampsa Hyysalo on the karakat

Two distinct analyst firm business models have arisen: one which only works with scale, and the other which is immune to competition from the large firms. That is an explicit

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