Research Section: Which is your favorite service provider?

Lloyd Bevan unearths some interesting results from last year’s IRO survey. In the summer of 2012, as part of IR Magazine’s global IRO survey, we asked a number of questions relating to IR departmental responsibility, outsourcing and external IR service provision. Findings from these questions went on to be used in the IR Magazine Global Practice Report 2012 and were expanded upon in last month’s article on IR outsourcing (see IR teams increase outsourcing, February 2013). One question from this survey that we have not reported upon – until now – concerns IROs’ favorite service providers: we asked respondents to name their first, second and third-favorite service providers, the services they provide