For anyone who might be interested, here’s something I wrote a while ago in answer to the question: will advisory services recover from current sluggish levels? —- Whether sold commercially, or distributed internally, knowledge produced by for-profit companies (as compared to information available for free on the web) will continue to be under strong pressures [...]
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[the following recollection, written by Ken Sonenclar and in his own words rather than my paraphrase, is included for its charm; it describes an unusual interview process even for me (perhaps “one-of”) which I’m sure was the result of now-forgotten circumstances-GIG] MAHLER AND ME It is the winter of 1982.I am a senior editor at [...]
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Mike Simons of IDG, editor of ComputerWorld UK, recently referred to my post, called: a Gartner publication, with G.Gartner’s comments (find it at http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/editors-blog/2010/07/gideon-gartner-takes-a-swipe-at-the-analyst-group-he-founded/index.htm) You’ll find this (curently) on the my first blog page (otherwise, search on “The Advisory Industry”). What I originally did was to copy a Gartner publication’s history of the company (through [...]
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In mid 2003, I suggested to my under-employed stepson that he apply his entrepreneurial interest and talent to a project we called Topline Analysis, LLC. This was a new and highly structured report format which I designed, specifically to publicize small public firms to those Wall Street “buy-side” investment firms which invested in listed companies [...]
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By Barbara French and Gideon Gartner (@bfr3nch, www.barbarafrench.net, @gideongartner,www.gideongartner.com) In the first part of this post, we challenged an urban myth that small analyst firms are threatening the Gartner and Forrester Research business models. We as yet see no compelling evidence. What we do see is many small advisory firms performing vital roles in the [...]
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G.Gartner’s note: the purpose of this post is to describe Gartner Inc.’s own chronology of its early years, with my comments in brackets [ ], which represent an attempt to help set the record straight. This post is not meant to describe the innovations which resulted in Gartner’s growing from zero to dominating its field [...]
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Last year, MIT Sloan School of Management published a study performed by Professor and head of MIT’s Entrepreneurship program Ed Roberts (David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology, Founder/Chair, MIT Entrepreneurship Center), and Professor Charles Eesley (Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurship Group at Stanford University). The study demonstrates MIT’s entrepreneurial impact, which may be typical [...]
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Today I received an e-mail from a friend: “Gideon, is this your old apartment?….Gerald” He had attached an article with photos from today’s New York Times (July 4). Here’s most of it, followed by the reason for this post: ——- High-Rise Dwellers Live the High, High Life By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS Most Manhattanites look out [...]
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The author of the discussion below, Pilar Rahola, is a Spanish politician and journalist. Rahola’s articles are mostly published in Spain and Latin America, but her speech below has found its way to the U.S. The copy I saw was reprinted by David Bogner who I’ve referred to before with regard to Israeli issues; his [...]
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By Barbara French and Gideon Gartner (@bfr3nch, www.barbarafrench.net, @gideongartner,www.gideongartner.com) There’s a good deal of speculation on whether the research and advisory business is entering a new phase — one in which small Advisory firms may be thriving at the expense of the large firms. David Hatch summed up this point of view in a forestercomment [...]
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