HP Corporate AR
Five analyst firms in the Boston area agreed to participate in an HP recycling event. Three of the firms are brand names and have “serious” green IT practices; the other two are smallish but respected specialty firms. We wanted to see what and how much
Or, is this the new way work is supposed to be done? Hop on Twitter and see postings by Monkchips, which leads to a video posting by Michael Coté here of a conversation with IBM’s John Simonds talking about Twitter, blogs and tags as a means of keeping
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Our annual survey of what influences our customers’ decisions to place a vendor on the short-list when purchasing products and services found that not much has changed. (see our November blog here ). While about 40% of our customers have subscriptions
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Our Corporate Analyst Relations team will soon be brought back to full strength with two terrific hires. Both will be based in Palo Alto and are expected to be on board in the weeks ahead. Evan Quinn, who starts May 1st, has been appointed Director, Analyst
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David Rossiter of the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations has a discussion about ethics and independence among industry analysts at IIAR . David gives several other examples of questionable ethics by firms and individuals. That blog triggered one
For those seeking help with product issues, we can't help you... because you have not left any contact information. For those waniting to "fix" Smart Web Printing. It won't automatically load if you have customized your browser in the past. Once installed
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Each quarter, groups of HPers in various business units perform a variation of a Kabuki play called “guidance.” It is a complex, multi-act performance with an audience of analysts from the data collection firms IDC, Gartner and others. The HPers have
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An analyst firm approached both HP and a competitor offering to compare and contrast both companies blade servers to see which one used power more efficiently. HP declined, so the competitor picked up the tab for the study. We were “shocked, shocked,
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Most calls or emails we get from analysts fall into two categories. First, most contact us to get information about something specific going on within HP. Second, a smaller group of communications are from folks trying to sell a report or service to HP
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Last year we started to survey HP customers to find out what influenced their decision to put an IT vendor on the shortlist for products or services. We felt that, even with smaller businesses, the decision about the short list was different from the
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This entry is the next in the series about blogs that I like to read. Print 2.0 Blog by Patrick Scaglia – Patrick is the CTO for IPG (Imaging and Printing Group) reporting to Shane Robison . Patrick oversees long-range technical strategy and research
One of the important AR tools we have at HP is ARchitect3 from ARinsights . It’s an ARM tool (think CRM specifically for AR) with many application functions for tracking analyst interactions and managing an AR team. One of its most valuable features the
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In his Cisco Analyst Relations blog, Skip MacAskill – a former Gartnerian – takes a swing at the issue of the major firms versus the new media in The Changing Rules of Influence . A big part of his analysis is that the traditional firms are slow moving
I frequently am called to present the HP Today overview to HP customers and prospects. In a recent meeting, while discussing HP’s financial strength with a major customer’s IT executives, I got a question/comment from the CIO. He stopped me, pointed to
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Having the ability to comment on content is quite common in the Web 2.0 world, but probably very scary for the analysts at firms like Gartner, IDC and Forrester. “Whoa, have clients – especially vendors with an axe to grind – comment on my perfect research
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