Lighthouse Analyst Relations is re-running our last webinar on Monday 13 October to discuss changes in demand for research and analysis services. We’ll be sharing the findings of research we conducted on how demand and pricing for analysts’ research services [...]
Clearing up after the financial storm after the last weeks, we see a rather different world economy. After the stock and currency revaluations, only 36 of the 100 firms with the largest market capitalisation have headquarters in the US. In [...]
They’re putting the band back together. Richard Holway, perhaps Europe’s best known analyst, and Anthony Miller, one of the UK’s leading software and services analysts, have launched TechMarketView. The firm will continue HotViews, Holway’s ongoing service providng comment on the [...]
Informa, which owns Datamonitor, Ovum and Butler, stays on the shelf after Providence Equity Partners walked away from its planned purchase of the group. It would have been one of the largest private equity deals, and was never certain. As [...]
Folrose Press has published Industry Analyst Relations – An Extension to PR, a new book on analyst relations by Dr Ralf Leinemann and Duncan Chapple, Lighthouse’s managing director. It’s a step-by-step guide for communication managers who need to develop an [...]
Is it just me who has doubts? I’ve been looking at the Gartner’s Blog Network, which went live last week. It might be a little early to pass judgement on its vitality and longevity: Anthony Bradley launched them formally, on [...]
We met with David Metcalfe, one of the founders and a Director at Verdantix this week. David will be familiar to you from his Forrester Research analyst and vice-president roles over the past 8 years. Verdantix is a traditional analyst [...]
Many analyst relations professionals have misunderstood the implications of last week’s lay-offs at Yankee Group. Yankee Group has ended coverage of a number of technologies (generally more mature ones), and laid off analysts covering areas with less customer demand, in [...]
Lighthouse’s August webinar discusses recent changes at Gartner. As this chart shows, Gartner’s stock has underperformed NASDAQ for most of the last year. But over the last month the firm’s shares have soared 25% (by an odd coincidence, most of [...]
Guest post by Aleksandra Bosnjak, Lead TMT Analyst at StrategyEye, in advance of our recent webinar. Informa, the UK-based B2B publishing and conference giant which just broke off its talks with UBM for a merger, now has another possible group [...]
