Here at Lighthouse we’re really wondering whether it’s possible to talk about services firms as a meaningful category. Take a look, for example, at the 2012 Influencer Quadrant for enterprise solutions. Even though this IQ excludes the major Powerhouse vendors, [...]
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? To start you off, here’s one of the charts from [...]
Here you can find our 10 tips from 2011 presentation from our November conference call. If the file opens in portrait view, you can rotate it into landscape by going View -> Rotate counter-clockwise. You can listen to the call in the [...]
The analyst relations community is slowly emerging from a prolonged battering. Budgets have been in short supply and spokespeoples’ time has been fought for in many companies. At the same time, AR teams (both in-house and in agencies) have struggled [...]
In June’s Lighthouse webinar, Lighthouse’s managing director will share the top ten lessons that the analyst relations community should have learnt over the last decade. Since working as an analyst at Ovum during the dot.bomb internet boom of 1999-2000, Duncan [...]
Research by Lighthouse has found that few analyst relations teams are measuring how effective social media outreach is. In our on-demand webinar, you’ll learn what the weaknesses are in social media measurement – and how to fix it. The growth [...]
Analyst- and influencer-relations means are coming under increasing pressure to produce metrics that evaluate their performance. One of the increasing challenges for top marketing managers is to show the impact of all activities on financial consequences.That’s the topic we’ll be [...]
Advance note: Lighthouse Analyst Relations and InformationSpan are scheduling a free webcast to explore the implications of Gartner’s acquisition of Burton Group. There will be actions for enterprise IT users who either (a) are Burton clients, and need to work [...]
On December 17 we ran a webinar to take a closer look at Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC). Close watchers of the services industry will need no introduction to PAC, one of Europe’s oldest industry analyst firms. The sort of projects [...]
The hot news this week has been the decision of AMR Research to allow itself to be bought by Gartner. If you’re an AMR client you will already be aware of this, and be thinking about your action plan. If [...]
