Carter Lusher and Peggy O’Neil have articulated better than I could have the benefits of the IIAR for its members after last week’s meeting:Why AR professionals should consider joining IIAR « SageCircle Blog And I take the opportunity to thank Peggy, who joined the IIAR board together with Sally Elliott from BT, for organising this …
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This is a reminder that the next IIAR Forum is this Wednesday, September 17th, from 3:45 p.m. at Edelman’s offices in London. We’re delighted to welcome speakers from Disruptive Analysis, Forrester Research, and Freeform Dynamics to this event to discuss the topic of AR 2.0. IIAR events are open to members. Non-members who have not …
We are very sad to share the news that Michael Selwyn, one of Europe’s most well known and highly respected AR consultants, passed away last Friday. Michael was an active and enthusiastic member of the IIAR, always ready to share his great experience and knowledge, and he will be sorely missed. Our condolences go to …
As much as Analyst Relations professionals spend time pitching briefings to analysts, we also spend alot of time fielding briefing requests from analysts with specific needs whodon’t always appreciate how much work is required to set up a briefing. Before we actually get everyone in the same room or on the phone, we AR professionals …
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Interesting post by Carter Lusher from Sage Circle lasty week: Spoon feed analysts public information « SageCircle Blog Is it AR’s job to do the research for analysts? Or put differently, where’s the boundary between the analysts’ research job and AR’s job of providing information? What do you think?
Peggy O’Neill of Hill & Knowlton and Evan Quinn of HP will be hosting an IIAR meeting at HP’s Palo Alto campus in Silicon Valley from 6:00 p.m. onwards on September 25. Note that this a change of location from that originally announced to make the event more accessible to AR professionals in Silicon Valley. The …
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Over the past few months, I have been debating the issue of how AR pros should use social media tools to enhance their analyst relations. Whilst it is clear that there is indeed a huge momentum of the use of blogs, twitter, wikis, facebook etc, what is unclear is whether it is AR’s job to …
Do you like filling in Vendor Briefing forms?
This week, it is my pleasure to welcome one of the Neils of MWD Advisors.com, only shortly after he kindly participated at our last IIAR Forum: Neil Ward-Dutton. Those two ex-Ovum analyst have founded MWD in 2005, and this year have hired two more analysts and launched their first continuous advisory services. They also have a blog called On IT-business alignment, and related thing.
Most AR professionals recognise the importance of measurement and evaluation, but many admit that it’s a subject they struggle with. To help AR professionals improve their knowledge and understanding, we held a best practice conference call during June on “The Fundamentals of AR Measurement and Evaluation”. On the panel were two in-house AR leaders: Kathy …
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Continuing our occasional series of analyst interviews, we’re delighted to welcome Dr. Mitul Mehta, Managing Director with TekPlus, into the hotseat to share his views on the industry. What are your coverage areas? My coverage area is fairly broad involving most of ICT. This came about due to my background from the very early days …
And the winner for the IIAR analyst of the year is….
The IIAR will be holding a best practice teleconference on the topic of “How to measure and evaluate your analyst relations activity” on Tuesday June 17th at 4:00 p.m. BST/5:00 p.m. CET/11:00 a.m. ET. The teleconference is free to attend for IIAR members. Non-members who are AR professionals can attend for a fee of £50. …
A Friday post, just to wind-up my friends at IDC and DQ (Hi Claus, Fabs, Eric, Chris, Ivano, Bo, Angela, Bob… and all the ones I forget!) From Dilbert.com And a serious thought as well: would more transparency in the research process help with objectivity and vendor independence?
In this article, Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Principal with CMS Watch and former VP North America for Ovum, shares some very interesting insights on AR from the analyst’s perspective. Some tips on how not to deal with a critical ‘independent’ analyst I have been an analyst and commentator for 10 years now – for most of that …
The IIAR maintains a job postings page on its web site:The Institute of Industry Analyst Relations Posting is free for advertisers, just drop an email to our secretary: hkirkman at analystrelations dot org. Sage Circle also has a jobs page, mostly for US positions.
The Institute of Industry Analyst Relations closes the Analyst of the Year survey at 10:00 p.m. BST on Wednesday April 30. To vote, go to http://snipurl.com/23gv1. In exchange for sharing your opinion, you’ll get a summary of the results next month. The IIAR is a not-for-profit organization established to raise industry awareness of the value …
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This week, in our continuing series of analyst interviews, Josh Krischer, founder and principal analyst with Josh Krischer & Associates, shares his insight on the IT analysis market. What are your coverage areas? I cover Mainframes, high-end computing, storage, disaster recovery techniques and data center consolidation. What are your opinions of the IT Analysis Marketplace …
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This week we have the pleasure of interviewing R “Ray” Wang from Forrester Research. In his spare time, he also contributes to the insightful Software Insiders blog. Thanks to Ray for his insights on the Software industry and also some thought provoking views on the IT Analysis industry too. What are your coverage areas? Research …
The IIAR has started a series of email interviews, where analysts from around the world are presented. We have talked to Rüdiger Spies from IDC . Thanks again fo him for the time he spent to give us some insight about IDC and the industry. 1. What are your coverage areas? A) It’s …
