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PR Week discusses analyst relations

2007-12-18T00:14:00.000-02:00

One more breakthrough for the analyst relations community: a feature in PR Week.Craig McGuire's article, Reaching a different type of influencer, explains how the practice of analyst relations has evolved a great deal over the past few years. It includes a nice comment from Susan:The traditional model for analyst relations (AR) gave tech vendors a tool to influence industry analysts who develop

Carter reincarnates as a Sage

2007-12-17T12:42:00.000-02:00

Carter Lusher, the internationally acclaimed food critic, kindly sent us an email to let us know about his new life after HP (his original farewell post is no longer on hp.com but we've saved it here). Actually, it seems he sent more than one email since Duncan, Duncan, Babara and Jim already blogged the fact he's going back to relaunch Sage Circle, now free to blog with a revenge! For those

News from the Colony

2007-12-13T12:37:00.000-02:00

Having seen our previous kitchen nightmares post the Forrester Comms VP, Karyl Levinston, came back to us to let us know that Norbert Kriebel just left Europe, not The Colony: he is now based of San Diego, surfers paradise but exposed to... forest fires. No update on David Metcalfe though...Why does this matter? In true ARmadgeddon style we said that we commented on the new role-based strategy

The IDC is in expansion !

2007-11-30T13:52:00.000-02:00

IDC has just put out this press release:IDC's Expansion Efforts Validated in New Report from Outsell, Inc. It is quite interesting that they are seeking third party validation themselves, a trick vendors often use IDC for. The release gives some facts (like they now have 950 analysts) but not IDC's actual revenue and is highlights their Insights businesses. We've been hinting before that Insights

Rebels vs. Dinosaurs: What Carter's Law Means for AR

2007-11-19T19:11:00.000-02:00

After a lot of discussion (what influence is, Web 2.0 and open source mean for the analysts business model) it is time to come back to Carter's Law: Finite AR resources need to be carefully managed if AR is to be effective.AR professionals often face a dilemma. How can we balance focussing on the most influential analysts, on the one hand, while using the other hand to serve a widening community?

Rebels vs. Dinosaurs: Are new analyst business models that revolutionary?

2007-11-16T14:57:00.000-02:00

The original IT analysis model was about selling detailed reports advising users on either products or pricing. It’s how Gideon started Gartner Inc. -something not mentioned here. One of the last surviving examples of this era, made of typing up (and sometimes translating) technology reports, and sell copies is Sievers – a quaint German boutique analyst. This model soon evolved into selling

Rebels vs. Dinosaurs: Influence is Everywhere

2007-11-15T10:15:00.000-02:00

In this post, we’re coming back on the numerous conversations about the changing nature of influence and its impact on industry analysts.Fred from V3 started the debate a while back even though his paper wasn’t picked up by many: New Opportunities for IT Industry Analysts. Maybe it is because bloggers have a short attention span and find reading short posts easier? It nevertheless contains a few

Rebels vs. Dinosaurs: there’s nothing like a good argument

2007-11-14T10:50:00.000-02:00

Was the whole thing planned? Just three weeks before “rather suddenly” leaving the Industry Analysts Circus, Carter launched this missile:Will established analyst firms become dinosaurs to the new media-oriented analysts?This post has sparked quite a lot of noise on the AR blogs, and many interesting discussions and reactions, but nothing like ARmadgeddon’s usual cynical and one-sided views.

Borgosium echoes

2007-11-13T06:54:00.000-02:00

Thanks to those who have passed some echoes from the Cannes Gartner Symposium.Content seemed rather bland: the keynote was poor and lacking a strong theme carried through the event, mega vendors sessions have been replaced by sessions on a given industry (one server, one services, one software, instead of the old IBM, Microsoft, HP, SAP, Oracle sessions). The SAP interview was however more

Gabriel Consulting Group: the Currie Motors of the Analysts world

2007-11-12T10:07:00.000-02:00

Here's a forgotten post, our apologies to Dan Olds from the Gabriel Consulting Group.It all started on this post from IBM Sun IBM AR Professional: Helzerman.com: interview with an odd Gabriel. We then started a conversation with Dan about research, and it turns out it's a small firm that still does primary non-syndicated research. So it's not all just fluff and opinion, which is refreshing (Dale

Analyst Relations hits YouTube

2007-11-09T13:45:00.001-02:00

Friday post: brownian scheduling

2007-11-02T14:31:00.000-02:00

Analysts have usually little ideas how much work is involved in AR. Take scheduling for instance, it takes a hell lot of time to figure out where and when your exec might meet the analyst as both seem to be in a constant brownian motion between airports.Stephen might have cracked gained many brownie points by publishing his schedule. Much easier than the dreaded Borg scheduling team, who comes

[Furl] 's Headlines for November 2, 2007

2007-11-02T08:44:00.001-02:00

Daily Furl Headlines for November 2, 2007From - http://www.furl.net/members/ARonaut Analyst Equity: Penteo: a case study in defendable borders Rated 3 in topic About analysts From analystrelations.blogspot.com on November 1 at 9:18 PM Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight...: So, why aren't industry analysts providing

[Furl] 's Headlines for November 1, 2007

2007-11-01T08:42:00.001-02:00

Daily Furl Headlines for November 1, 2007From - http://www.furl.net/members/ARonaut stephen o'grady's MyFreeBusy Calendar Rated 3 in topic AR tools and techniques From sogrady.myfreebusy.com on October 31 at 11:38 AM ________________________________________________________________________Save and share anything you find online - Furl @

[Furl] 's Headlines for October 30, 2007

2007-10-30T08:37:00.001-02:00

Daily Furl Headlines for October 30, 2007From - http://www.furl.net/members/ARonaut Who are you? Who? Who? Who? Analysts better make sure they are in the AR directories. Rated 3 in topic AR tools and techniques From hp.com on October 29 at 12:10 PM ________________________________________________________________________Save and share

Be candid and cooperate

2007-10-29T10:20:00.001-02:00

Duncan for once posted something quite interesting on Analyst Equity: Credo 1. AR should be co-operative .In this post, he says that AR should focus on the analyst goals rather than on written research. Why? Because focusing on written research only antagonises AR and Analysts (think of the arguments and escalation arising from some research notes "courtesy" vendor reviews) and does not

[Furl] 's Headlines for October 27, 2007

2007-10-27T08:45:00.001-02:00

Daily Furl Headlines for October 27, 2007From - http://www.furl.net/members/ARonaut On Briefing Analysts, When You Can't Say Everything You Want To » Delusions of Adequacy Rated 3 in topic AR tools and techniques From johnsimonds.com on October 26 at 8:21 AM ________________________________________________________________________Save

[Furl] 's Headlines for October 26, 2007

2007-10-26T08:43:00.001-02:00

Daily Furl Headlines for October 26, 2007From - http://www.furl.net/members/ARonaut On Briefing Analysts, When You Can't Say Everything You Want To » Delusions of Adequacy Rated 3 in topic AR tools and techniques From johnsimonds.com on October 26 at 8:21 AM ________________________________________________________________________Save

[Furl] 's Headlines for October 25, 2007

2007-10-25T08:43:00.001-02:00

Daily Furl Headlines for October 25, 2007From - http://www.furl.net/members/ARonaut AnalystPerspectives: Analysts are increasing coverage or environmental issues - follow the coverage on the new "Greening of IT" blog Rated 3 in topic Analysts unpredictions From books24x7.typepad.com on October 24 at 9:06 AM __________________________

HypeWatch: Green IT

2007-10-24T22:29:00.000-02:00

As Jim puts it rather plainly Analysts are increasing coverage or environmental issues. So the guys at Books 24x7 ("a leading SaaS provider of on-demand business, technical and engineering content" -interesting combination of software as a service and content in the same phrase...), following the hype, have launched a new new "Greening of IT" blog."ARmadgeddon's take: Green IT is the 00'ies Y2K

[Furl] 's Headlines for October 24, 2007

2007-10-24T08:33:00.001-02:00

Daily Furl Headlines for October 24, 2007From - http://www.furl.net/members/ARonaut AnalystPerspectives: Analysts are increasing coverage or environmental issues - follow the coverage on the new "Greening of IT" blog Rated 3 in topic Analysts unpredictions From books24x7.typepad.com on October 24 at 9:06 AM The CIO Weblog: Show

[Furl] 's Headlines for October 23, 2007

2007-10-23T08:47:00.001-02:00

Daily Furl Headlines for October 23, 2007From - http://www.furl.net/members/ARonaut The CIO Weblog: Show CEOs the money, says Gartner Rated 3 in topic Gartner From cio-weblog.com on October 23 at 8:21 AM ________________________________________________________________________Save and share anything you find online - Furl @ http://

Forrester's kitchen nighmares

2007-10-20T09:38:00.000-02:00

Forrester has announced their earnings in August and Dominic has reported that 3 new analysts just joined the firm in Europe: Analyst Movements: changes at Forrester Research [ARcade] Don't rejoice too quickly though, the news on the joiners are not as good as it looks: although we could add Kevin Lucas and Duncan Jones as a recent joiners (George Lawrie is also old news as joined over 8 months

[Furl] 's Headlines for October 20, 2007

2007-10-20T08:44:00.001-02:00

Daily Furl Headlines for October 20, 2007From - http://www.furl.net/members/ARonaut AnalystPerspectives: The Wiki of Research Rated 3 in topic Other AR blogs From books24x7.typepad.com on October 19 at 2:32 PM ________________________________________________________________________Save and share anything you find online - Furl @ http://

[Furl] 's Headlines for October 19, 2007

2007-10-19T08:35:00.001-02:00

Daily Furl Headlines for October 19, 2007From - http://www.furl.net/members/ARonaut Kudos to Forrester for permitting clients to comment on research notes Rated 3 in topic Other AR blogs From hp.com on October 19 at 1:17 AM ________________________________________________________________________Save and share anything you find online -