Influence v. Intelligence
I am writing this on a flight home. Been gone 12 days in 4 hotels, 7 flights, 20 Uber rides. Have not checked two bags in a long, long while. A friend asked me if I was ok since I have not posted on this blog in those days. I said yes, there was an […]
Ten thousand points of influence
A decade ago, I wrote this post which talked about the thousand points of influence in every technology decision. My goal was to highlight attention on the fact that most vendor AR, back then, was fixated on Gartner magic quadrants and Forrester waves whereas there were plenty of bloggers who influenced deals. AR folks were even less […]
Thousand points of influence
It’s been a decade since I wrote this post in which I said We all have our roles to play – but put yourself on the grid of 1000 and see what steps, decision makers, and influence impact you have on a technology buying decision. I do it all the time on transactions I help […]
Is Gartner slicing the bologna too thin?
I burst out laughing when I saw Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for “Single-Instance ERP for Product-Centric Midmarket Companies.” Talk about a mouthful. When I was there in late 90s, we worried about segmenting markets too narrowly. Apparently. in the last 15 years, that worry has gone away. And even then that MQ does not include vendors […]
A decade of the Enterprise Irregulars
Two decades ago, Selling Power magazine had Gartner executives on the cover with the byline “When the Gartner Group says “buy”, the market listens”. Given the magazine’s audience, the focus of the article was Gartner’s well run field organization which the article cited “over the past five years.. has grown from 40 to more than […]
Not your fathers influencer relations
I was reviewing Duncan Chapple’s latest influence quadrant and thinking how much the analyst relations world has changed since my days at Gartner in the 90s a) Vendor product portfolios have exploded Microsoft needs a “One Microsoft” initiative to bring together its wide array of consumer and enterprise tech. In the last decade SAP has […]
The Devils Square
Michael Krigsman at ZDNet and others like to use the term “Devil’s Triangle” to explain how software buyers, vendors and systems integrators are all to blame for failed ERP projects. In SAP Nation, I dedicated a chapter to the stunning list of failures in that economy, and a chapter to each of those stakeholders in […]
Gartner buys Burton and the Analyst Consolidation Question
With the news that Gartner is buying The Burton Group today, the topic of IT analyst consolidations is popping up again. While I’ve only been in the analyst world for 4 years now (come Feb 2010), working at a small firm has given me, I wager, more of a view into the machinations of the […]
Five Things the Gartner/AMR Deal Suggests for the Future of Industry Analyst Research
As I sat down to write about the Gartner/AMR deal this morning, I realized that I could probably fill a book with my thoughts on what the deal bodes for the future of research, publishing and expert consulting models in the technology sector. But rat…
Predictions, Redactions
By Vinnie Mirchandani on October 3, 2017
At their annual Gartner Symposium event in Orlando yesterday, Peter Sondergaard predicted: “AI will be a net job creator starting in 2020” To that, Jason Hiner at TechRepublic snarkily commented “Gartner’s research chief couldn’t have opened the company’s flagship conference with a more astounding proclamation if he had claimed that next year’s event would be held on […]
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