Comments on: Von Populismus und Heckenschützen http://blogs.gartner.com/andreas_bitterer/2009/02/25/populismus/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:22:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Timo Elliott http://blogs.gartner.com/andreas_bitterer/2009/02/25/populismus/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Timo Elliott Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:22:21 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/andreas_bitterer/?p=47#comment-188 If you;re going to protect Gartner from everybody who takes a ding at the company (in order to get some publicity for themselves?), you're going to be busy for a while! If you;re going to protect Gartner from everybody who takes a ding at the company (in order to get some publicity for themselves?), you’re going to be busy for a while!

]]> By: Gareth Horton http://blogs.gartner.com/andreas_bitterer/2009/02/25/populismus/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Gareth Horton Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:39:53 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/andreas_bitterer/?p=47#comment-66 This shows a lack of understanding between a company that successfully delivers solutions to it's customers and the vagaries of the market. Microsoft, for example is an enormously successful company, but investing in Microsoft in the last 3 years is unlikely to have made anyone rich. I think anyone who operates seriously and with a good understanding does not attempt to imbue the MQ with any more attributes than the ones it claims to have. Maybe they are misled by the term 'Magic', who knows. In some ways MQs and other analyst reports are similar to Which? magazine or the US Consumer Reports. They don't claim to be a proxy for investment decisions, i.e. "because this new Miele vacuum cleaner is really outstanding and the customer service is really good, we recommend you go and buy up all the Miele stock you can lay your hands on" In addition, to become rich enough never to have to work again, I imagine you would have to gamble an awful lot of an analyst's salary in the maelstrom of the current market, and the Gartner analysts I have met have not struck me as that reckless. Gareth This shows a lack of understanding between a company that successfully delivers solutions to it’s customers and the vagaries of the market.

Microsoft, for example is an enormously successful company, but investing in Microsoft in the last 3 years is unlikely to have made anyone rich.

I think anyone who operates seriously and with a good understanding does not attempt to imbue the MQ with any more attributes than the ones it claims to have. Maybe they are misled by the term ‘Magic’, who knows.

In some ways MQs and other analyst reports are similar to Which? magazine or the US Consumer Reports. They don’t claim to be a proxy for investment decisions, i.e. “because this new Miele vacuum cleaner is really outstanding and the customer service is really good, we recommend you go and buy up all the Miele stock you can lay your hands on”

In addition, to become rich enough never to have to work again, I imagine you would have to gamble an awful lot of an analyst’s salary in the maelstrom of the current market, and the Gartner analysts I have met have not struck me as that reckless.

Gareth

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