I had an interesting comment in an email recently: Why does Lighthouse emphasise cross-cultural differences so much? I think a lot of people will be offended by the way you call attention to these differences, especially since it comes across [...]
My previous post discussed the International Herald Tribune, whose issue today is well worth reading. Today’s ‘Marketplace’ page discussed how the volume of US corn being used to make ethanol now equals the volume exported. It includes this map, which [...]
Many thanks to Tekrati for flagging up a great paper from the Concours Group. Barbara cites Concours as saying: “The ability of senior leaders to execute on business strategy depends largely on whether employees are encouraged to speak up about [...]
I’ll be in the Munich area between February 22 and 27, meeting up with analysts and AR professionals there. Let me know if you’d like to meet up. The business culture in Europe’s German-speaking region poses some special challenges to [...]
Many of the people I’ve discussed with over the last week in New York stress the deep impact of an unfolding decelleration in the US economy. But what will be impact be on analyst relations? Since many other major economies [...]
The chart on the left shows the location of 500 frequent visitors to this blog. As you can imagine, in conurbations quite a few of the dots are covered by other dots. However, the chart is still a good illustration [...]
Lighthouse’s regular CIO surveys continue to show that the international influence on buyers of blogs, and even of analysts’ blogs, is still modest. There’s a significant difference between the impact that different ‘channels’ of information have and, even if the [...]
As firms develop and distribute their products worldwide, their need to communicate with CIO’s and regional/local analysts becomes an increasingly more complex and challenging task. There are several ‘dimensions’ to the difference, which this diagram, from Global Integration, indicates. Lighthouse’s [...]
An American colleague working from Lighthouse’s London office today had what he called “a classic English moment”. London is not a hot city in any meaning sense of the word. Today is one of the hottest days of the year, [...]
Although international industry analyst firms aim to use similar methods when writing their research, winning sales recommendations still means connecting with the ‘go-to’ analysts in national markets. I tend to recommend Kate Fox’s book, Watching the English, to those trying [...]
