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Persona Non Gartner

Over the years, I've watched, participated in researching and experienced the results of the positing of Gartner's disclosures. My analysis is as follows:

On any given subject at any given time, there is a .90 probability that the opinions expressed by Gartner will be either flat out wrong or miss the mark badly.

We hired Gartner to make recommendataions and paid a hefty sum. Good thing we ignored them.

The best use for the Gartner Group is for techs to manage to get them, make a presentation to management -- to make the points and use persuasion to advocate what we all know is the right thing to do [but management, being too dense to understand the issues, will listen to "experts" rather than to those they have hired to do the job].

Otherwise, I'd advise seeing what Forrester has to say because it's usually more sensible.

The most frightening thing is that Gartner has the ear of United States Congressmen. Ackkk!

Posted by: dbecker@...   Posted on: 10/20/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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