Is it still possible to talk about services firms as a meaningful category? Take a look, for example, at the 2012 Influence Quadrant for enterprise solutions, which we made for

The Analyst Equity blog had visitors from exactly 100 countries over the last six months. 42% of visitors are in the United States and a further 42% come from seven other counties,

This month, Lighthouse is relaunching the Spotlight on Telecoms. Each month we’ll bring subscribers notable research they might have missed, and be talking about underlying trends. You might already know

Users of analyst research have really different perceptions of how independent some analyst firms are. People seem to be fairly certain that Aberdeen Group has less independence than Ovum, but there

Everyone in or around the analyst industry knows that the four major firms are Gartner, Forrester, IDC and Ovum. But who are four after that, and the four after that?

I’m one of the co-authors of a new guide to best practices for LinkedIn which has been published this week by B2B Marketing. As you might imagine, I’m especially interested

The 451 Group announced the acquisition of Yankee Group from Alta Communications on January 3, 2013. Yankee was one of the analyst industry’s most prestigious boutiques through the dot.com boom, with

“Industry Analyst Relations – An Extension to PR”, the book by Dr Ralf Leinemann and I, has been the best-selling AR book on Amazon over the last five years. We’re

