Daryl Plummer

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Daryl C. Plummer
Managing VP & Gartner Fellow
14 years at Gartner
30 years IT industry

Daryl Plummer is a managing vice president, chief of Research and chief Gartner Fellow. Mr. Plummer manages the Gartner Fellows Program, which is designed to allow senior analysts the opportunity to explore new research ideas and to elevate… Read Full Bio

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G-Men #5 : If it’s shiny, it must be new!

by Daryl Plummer  |  February 22, 2009  |  5 Comments

G-men #5: click the image for a larger view.

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Category: Cloud Emergin Trends Emerging Phenomena Uncategorized     Tags: ,

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  • 1 Anthony Bradley   February 23, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    Finding the “old” in something is easy. Anyone can do it and everyone does. Extending beyond the old and finding the new in something is much more difficult. This is innovation and the population here is much reduced. Expending a lot of effort around identifying the old in something is wasted time and those participants run the risk of being viewed as dinosaurs reliving their glory days. Spend the time honing in on what is new and how you can innovate around it.

  • 2 Anthony Bradley   February 23, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    Great cartoon by the way.

  • 3 Daryl Plummer   February 23, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    Thanks. Seeing the past is a lot easier than seeing the future. If we always try to turn everything we encounter into everything we have already known, we wil wind up walking backwards in the wrong direction.

  • 4 BDPA Foundation   February 26, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    Hi Daryl — I’m going to share your cartoon with our blog readers. Well done!

    peace, Wayne

  • 5 Daryl Plummer   March 1, 2009 at 11:46 am

    Always a good thing. thanks, Wayne!