It won’t surprise you to know that Jackie and I feel proud and privileged to be the co-authors of ‘Mastering the Hype Cycle’. What might be news is that it’s the sixth in a series Gartner has published with Harvard Business School Press. That collection is a very cool achievement indeed. We think it’s a major contribution to Business IT management education. The seventh, ‘The Real Business of IT’ by Richard Hunter and George Westerman, is coming this Fall.
Apart from the authors, there are a couple of Gartner people behind the scenes who made this happen. Heather Levy is our internal head of book publishing. Andrew Spender is our corporate head of communications. This collection has been a labour of love for them both over the last 5 years. Can you imagine trying to shepherd very busy and sometimes precocious analysts through the writing process and getting them to deliver a manuscript on time? They command our highest respect and gratitude.
