View back the recording of Michael Coté’s talk early 2014 on dealing with analysts, narrowed down to startups.
(I feel like I should apologize, one for the length, and also because there’s some vital points missing below that I can’t see in the bird’s entrails. Nonetheless, this “novella” has been haunting me for several months and I need to eject it.)
Over the last few weeks, my colleagues and I have been interviewing industry analysts about business models. After reviewing the results from the summer Analyst Attitude Survey, we found that business models are about 25% more relevant to analysts than to the spokespeople that vendors delegate to meet them. My colleague Esther Boyer developed a Read more about Spokespeople lose analysts’ trust if they cannot discuss business models[…]
Industry analysts could help their users to make better choices if they had diverse research lenses, for example looking more deeply into fundamental research, vertical markets, new business models, hidden champions, new categories and local markets. Non only do many analyst firms have convergent information collection methods, but they also have similar ways of analyzing and Read more about Vendors wanted analysts’ attention: You won’t believe what they did at the airport![…]
Security and risk are critical areas for the users of analyst firms, and it’s no surprise that its major analyst firms rather than niche specialists who pick up the Security & Risk Analyst Firm Awards for 2017. Gartner has a clear leadership position, aided by its ability to link security issues to the way that Read more about CXP Group & KPMG advance in 2017 Security & Risk Analyst Firm Awards[…]
Perhaps the biggest surprise of last week’s Analyst Relations Value Forum was Huawei winning one of the KeaCircle awards given to several leading-edge analyst relations teams. Recommendations from industry analyst firms like Gartner and Forrester have not only been a powerful driver of Cisco‘s success over the last 20 years, but it has been a Read more about How Huawei’s analyst relations overtook Cisco’s[…]
One of the biggest surprises from the Analyst Attitude Survey, which produces the data for our KeaCircle awards, is that many AR spokespeople are missing out on a surprising element of pitching to analysts: mentioning business models. Indeed, analysts’ responses to the summer 2017 AAS tell us that a firm’s business model is a more important part Read more about Why don’t AR spokespeople discuss business models?[…]