Jeff Kagan

Telecom Analyst ~ Speaker ~ Author

and Publisher of The Jeff Kagan Report & Comment

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Over the past twenty-five years Jeff Kagan has become one of the most often quoted analysts in the industry. He has spoken at countless industry conferences, Colleges and Universities  and company meetings to groups of employees, customers and investors. He examines the competitive technologies and the advertising and marketing issues and strategies these companies face as they compete. This includes technology trends, customer behavior, business models, and attitudes of both the customer and the competitors. 

He publishes The Jeff Kagan Report & Comment which is research and commentary reports on the changing industry looking at What's hot, What's not and What's next? Kagan takes a look at companies, technology, competition and the coming changes. This industry has been rapidly changing over the last few decades. Some companies do a great job of driving change and staying on target. Others get lost during the waves of rapid change. Their are valuable lessons to be learned from both sides. 

Kagan is not a stock analyst, however he watches the rise and fall of competitors and technologies in the industry. He examines their history, where they are now, and where they are expected to be in the months and years ahead and why. 

He offers opinion and strategic vision and advice to those looking for his insight. He offers commentary to a variety of clients, competitors, investment groups, advertising and public relations agencies and a variety of other companies and groups through teleconferences, speeches, reports and meetings. 

Kagan regularly meets with and talks with the competitors, compares their strategies, products, services, competitive actions and offers comments in speeches, articles, research and in conversations with the media. 

Kagan follows the GREEN movement in companies which is starting to take off. Watching how companies transform what they do and how they do it.

Over the last 25 years the media calls for comments to help them round out stories, and Kagan talks with them to keep his thoughts in the national conversation. 

He has tracked the companies as the industry evolves, from local and long distance companies, to wireless, to internet and to television and beyond. He follows all the companies and is available to participate in their analyst relations programs. 

As all industry analysts, his earnings come from a variety of sources including speaking fees, research and consulting fees from a variety of individuals, companies and organizations in the industry. 

He follows the news, announcements, competitive issues and trends of the industry and offers comment, analysis and opinion to the media, to companies and at industry meetings and conferences. His comments and analysis have shown up in thousands of articles and news stories in all the major print and broadcast media including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week, Fortune, CNN, CNBC, ABC, CBS, etc.

As a nationally recognized industry analyst he is also a highly sought speaker, commentator, columnist, professional agitator and author. 

Kagan has given keynote addresses and speeches at a wide variety of of corporate meetings, College and University programs and industry conferences ranging in size from a handful of senior execs to a few thousand customers, employees or conference attendees. 

He is also called on by advertising and public relations agencies and many other firms who are interested in his analysis of the changing industry and marketplace, and who want to brief him on their announcements and strategies.

Kagan is a 'fee based' analyst. He gives interviews, analysis and insights to the media for free, and charges everyone else. As a "friend to all" he brings an objective, outside perspective on competitive and customer issues and trends. Mr. Kagan started his practice in 1987.