This blog post was published on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. You’re plugging away at an MQ when a notification pops up on your screen. It’s a message from your manager. “Can you give me a recap of…
Two things can be true about vendor evaluations: They’re important, so it’s worth our time as AR leaders to explore ways to improve our companies’ placements in them. They keep us from tending…
Many of the analyst relations (AR) pros we work with “own” their company’s Gartner relationship — and often have responsibility for Gartner Peer Insights, Gartner’s primary platform for…

Over $100 million is wasted annually by IT vendors buying the wrong services at the wrong price from IT analyst firms. Buying the right IT industry analyst services is easier said than done. With the…
Of the four styles of AR (i.e., firefighting, reactive, proactive and pre-emptive) most organizations dwell in reactive, or worse, firefighting. Both of these modes can have a negative impact on…
Because of their relationships with the buyers of technology, IT industry analysts like Gartner, Forrester and IDC hold tremendous power over the vendors of IT products and services. While a…
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