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450 analyst firms get less than half their revenue from vendors

Our post on growth opportunities for competitors to Forrester and Gartner has triggered some discussion, both in our monthly ‘Advisor Spotlight’ webinar, another blog and on our Boardroom. In particular, there’s a real discussion about how far other analyst firms have a toehold in the end-user market from which they can grow.
In the Boardroom discussion, […]

25Sep2007 | Editorial | 1 comment | Continued

Picking up the money Gartner and Forrester leave on the table

Gartner and Forrester’s increasing focus on global $1bn-plus firms is leaving money on the table for firms like IDC, Berlecon, NelsonHall, Burton, Pierre Audoin Consultants and Springboard to pick up. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to after a lunch with Rahme Mehmet where we talked over Thursday’s Boardroom discussion.
Around 20 senior AR and marketing directors […]

18Sep2007 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

Opening up our boardroom to discuss Forrester and Gartner

One of Lighthouse’s traditions is the Boardroom, a free and private off-the-record discussion for AR managers. We have been holding these discussions in San Jose every April for a few years: on Thursday, September 20 we’ll start to hold boardroom discussions in London.
The topic for the invite-only discussion in September is the changing business strategies […]

28Aug2007 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

Maximizing the Value of Analyst Relations

One of Lighthouse’s traditions is the Boardroom: an annual working lunch for AR professionals, hosted in San Jose, CA, the week before Gartner’s Symposium. This week, we met to discuss ways to maximize the value of AR in a recessionary environment. Geoff Roach is an wonderful host, and arranged a private boardroom for us in […]

18Apr2007 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

Back in the San José boardroom

Each April, Lighthouse sits down for a working lunch with up to a dozen of Silicon Valley’s leading AR professionals to exchange views on that year’s hottest topic. Because we use the Chatham House rule, the discussion is candid.
Our 2005 discussion highlighted the increasing pressures produced by Gartner’s strategy. That remains the key issue. Three […]

23Apr2006 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

Heard in a San José boardroom

On Friday I hosted a lunchtime seminar for several Silicon Valley analyst relations professionals to assess the challenges that the META-Gartner acquisition produces, both for analyst relations professionals and for the analysts. I took some notes of the discussion which average out the views there - of course not everyone there had the same opinion…
Generally, […]

28Jun2005 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued