...the Gartner Group’s Total Cost of Ownership and weak analyses like Paul Strassmann’s The Squandered Computer (both critiqued extensively in this space) still get a lot of attention. It’s time...…
...a Gartner conference. Good marketing is a vital input into product planning, always trying to anticipate what buyers will want next. There is a bit of “creative imitation” in this,...…
...Now … make a list of every Digital and Gartner Hype Cycle technology you can think of, and ask yourself how IT has changed its operating model to prevent more...…
...this little puppy that came to me while I was watching Kong: Skull Island as my Gogo inflight movie. It’s a new, Gartnerized test of actorhood. Preposterousness is the vertical...…
...system enhancements I’m going to want. Against these forces, the CIO is armed with nothing beyond logic and maybe a Gartner study or two. It’s time to buy more asphalt....…
...a little annoying to know that no idea is truly legitimate until Gartner or McKinsey makes it their own, there is a certain joy that comes with getting there first,...…
...kicking and screaming. Shadow IT Shadow IT isn’t so much a second, separate trend as it is the flip side of the Cloud coin. Gartner has famously predicted that by...…
...Joint Running, Gartner predicted that in just two short years, 20% of all companies would have no IT assets of their own — it will all have moved to third...…
...— this week’s blast from the past. Close runner up: It’s eleven years old, but who can resist taking potshots at ’em, so here’s my “Total Cost of Gartner” (1/13/2003)....…
The technology life cycle, first described by this author in May of 1996 and later discovered (ahem) independently by Gartner as the “technology adoption curve,” has three stages: Hype, disillusionment,...…
