by Craig Roth | October 29, 2010 | Comments Off
I haven’t posted in a while since I was holed up for 4 days in a conference room working on our latest contextual research (CR) project on e-mail. CR is one of the research methodologies unique to the IT Practitioner’s group within Gartner. I would describe CR this way: take 5 industry analysts, lock them [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 19, 2010 | Comments Off
Over the last ten years there has been an assault on the upper left corner of GUI windows and screens and I want to take them back. It’s a fact – the human eye scans from upper left to lower right. But the standard windowed interface pegs an increasing amount of tooling at the top [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 2, 2010 | Comments Off
The Wall St. Journal is running a great series on web tracking and privacy. Is the personal data collection industry correct that we’re all fixated on our name and social security number and breathe a sigh of relief when told they aren’t captured? If you’re tracking me (even if I’m known as “the tall guy [...]
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by Craig Roth | June 16, 2010 | Comments Off
This week’s Economist has an article on inventor Dean Kamen that encapsulates a point that I have run across many times as an analyst. In the Collaboration and Content group, we deal with technologies that are touched by end user’s whose job is not (directly) to use the technology. For example, a system administrator authors [...]
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by Craig Roth | May 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Hello! Welcome to my blog on the Gartner Blogging Network. I’ve been blogging for quite a while on my Burton Group service blog (Collaboration and Content Strategies blog) and personal blog (KnowledgeForward), but I’m new to Gartner and GBN. In the spirit of the “hello world” posts by my teammates Guy Creese and Larry Cannell, [...]
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