Many thanks to Fred for pointing out Paul Gillin‘s comment on Over-sensitivity at the New York Times, which explains that the NYT has apologised to readers for citing Rob Enderle, an analyst who supports vendors including Microsoft, in an article [...]
Kensington Group was one of the first analyst relations consultancies. After an unsuccessful purchase of that firm by Courtney Smith’s MetaSource Group in 2002, Kensington merged into a MetaSource company, KGI Management Consulting, and dissapeared from the analyst relations scene. [...]
Andrew Smith is speading the news that Gartner vice-president Frank Buytendijk has joined Hyperion as vice president of Corporate Strategy, based in The Netherlands. He will report directly to Hyperion’s Chief Strategy Officer, Howard Dresner. Dresner was also a vice [...]
Last October, after Hyperion hired Howard Dresner, we asked what happens when a competitor hires the analyst who follows your firm. Generally, not many analysts want to move into an analyst relations role (see Richard‘s comment) and not every analyst [...]
InformationWeek’s Larry Greenemeier and Paul McDougall have written to suggest that the growing contradiction between analyst firm’s obligations to vendors and to buyer is subject to a uncomfortable conspiracy of silence. They are, in our opinion, largely right and slightly [...]
