The protests outside the G20 summit in London reminded me that for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. Every problem is an opportunity for someone, even in this current recession. There have been four recessions in recent history; this one is different. Consumers are loaded with debt, the return on savings is falling,…
Show me the money! AR professionals need to start talking more about changes on the industry side, on the analysts’ side. How things are changing for analysts – as businesses – is key. I think a lot of what AR folk are comfortable talking about is really about the interaction between the analyst and the…
How can Analyst Relations professionals plan at the start of a recession? Our advice is: expect a very uneven dip, with a recession in some of the western economies being balanced by growth in developing markets. The long-term growth in the value of the US dollar is partly engineered by overseas national banks to constrict…
On Thursday 30 October I will be on the panel of a discussion on how communications people survive recession? It’s hosted by the London PR & Branding group, a 700-strong networking group here. This is how the event is promoted: Managers, agencies, entrepreneurs and employees face a dramatically different landscape this winter. Join this meeting…
Two dozen people, including eight analysts, have been laid off at IDC. The new alumni include semiconductor analyst IdaRose Sylvester and analysts in a number of areas, including handsets, OSS and billing, and business consulting. This is a modest change for IDC, as we discuss below, but it has some strategic and tactical implications for…
The stock-market jitters of the last weeks have already made a massive change in the conversations between analysts, vendors and their clients over the last weeks. In April we’ll be relaunching a January 2002 course, on communicating through a reccession, that I never thought I’d have to run through again. While a recession may not…