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Monday 13th webinar: Changing demand for research and analysis
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 seems to be changing across various market sectors. To book your seat, visit e-tickets.
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High-Tech after the world financial crisis
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 Europe there are 48. Despite (or perhaps because of) the huge volume of US dollars […]
23Sep2008 | Duncan Chapple | 0 comments | ContinuedHolway 2.0? TechMarketView launches UK software & services research
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 UK services and software market.
We’ll be speaking with them soon to find out what reaction […]
Informa’s potential buyers walk away from the deal
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 we discussed, the lack of synergies across the sprawling Informa group continue to make it […]
19Sep2008 | Lighthouse | 0 comments | ContinuedNew on Amazon: Industry Analyst Relations - An Extension to PR
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 AR program. The 108-page large format book retails for £15 (or less) from Amazon and […]
17Sep2008 | Doreen Mwendah | 5 comments | ContinuedWill Gartner’s Blog Network succeed?
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 September 15th (day 2 of Gartner’s Web Innovation Summit in LA). n However, at the […]
16Sep2008 | Duncan Chapple | 0 comments | ContinuedVerdantix: the only climate change business research firm in your or any other town
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 research company in its business model, but it is far from that when it comes to […]
9Sep2008 | Martin Tilling | 6 comments | ContinuedYankee layoffs: AR managers must read the writing on the wall
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 order to build research strength in its core field of ubiquitous connectivity.
The scale of the […]
Why Gartner surged 30% after a year underwater
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 this growth was prior to the release of the firm’s H2 results on July 30, […]
8Aug2008 | Duncan Chapple | 0 comments | ContinuedThe value and post-acquisition performance of Informa
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 of bidders: private equity groups Providence Equity Partners and Carlyle are working on a USD3.53bn cash […]
Hi Nancy, in our opinion it's not effective to tier entire firms. We tier individual analysts. The most important analyst ...
Interesting post-of course it depends what industry and geography you are targeting. Do you really consider Datamonitor/Ovum in the ...
I think what has changed is not AR but the fact that social media is a mainstream platform for content/opnion ...
Actually, I wrote my own NDA agreement (in my URL). Smaller vendors, as a rule, are fine with it. Multibillion ...
