Does anyone else find The Gartner Group annoying? I’m reviewing its “PC Cost/Benefit and Payback Analysis.” The good news: I now understand the “Productivity Paradox.” It comes from Gartner’s inflated...…
...over five years.” Yes, that’s right. According to GartnerAccounting, a run-of-the-mill FranklinCovey day planner costs more than $5,000 per year, which means our friends at Gartner have unwittingly demonstrated that...…
...aftermath of train wrecks and traffic accidents, you might want to read the report yourself — you’ll find it at http://gartner5.gartnerweb.com/public/static/hotc/00092702.html. The report begins, “Gartner has warned IS organizations that...…
...technologies for 12 years.” This means she published the first Gartner hype cycle in August, 1996, more or less. The Gartner hype cycle (technology trigger, peak of inflated expectations, trough...…
I should have known better. Last week I griped about Gartner failing to give credit where due, based on the simple arithmetic of an August, 2007 Gartner press release, which...…
Gartner has achieved fame and fortune through the publicity it generates from regular publication of outrageous “total cost of ownership” (TCO) calculations. It’s time for Gartner to share the fame,...…
...happen, they’re a byproduct, nothing more. So here’s the scorecard: Gartner is right about digital transformations requiring a change in corporate culture. I’m happy for Gartner that its analysts finally...…
...boat until Gartner floats one. Anyway … To its credit Gartner has (finally) recognized the need for what it calls “bimodal IT.” But it hasn’t explored a challenging, near-inevitable consequence...…
...across a Gartner Magic Quadrant that places your preferred solution in the prized “Leader” quadrant while scoring the one you dislike as a hopeless loser (“Niche” in GartnerSpeak). I don’t...…
My first professional contact with InfoWorld was in 1993. I’d just installed a user-friendly front end to CompuServe when along came the Gartner Group’s total cost of ownership (TCO) model...…
