by Jeffrey Mann | April 1, 2012 | 2 Comments
1 April, 2012: After last year’s successful launch of “Real Quadrants,” Gartner has announced the next iteration in the development of its most popular branded deliverable. The Magic Quadrant’s two axes and four categories have proven insufficient to capture the complexities of IT markets in the second decade of the 21st century. Entire product categories [...]
Category: humor Magic Quadrant Tags: April Fools, Magic Fractals, Magic Quadrant, Real Quadrants
by Jeffrey Mann | April 2, 2011 | 2 Comments
I had a little fun in yesterday’s April 1 post assigning new names to the Magic Quadrants, and renaming the whole thing to Real Quadrants. I hope I left enough clues that it was a joke, but it actually illustrates a frustrating issue. I am starting the process to update the Externally-Facing Social Software Magic [...]
Category: being an analyst humor Magic Quadrant Tags: MQ, Real Quadrants
by Jeffrey Mann | April 1, 2011 | 11 Comments
We are constantly looking at our branded deliverables to see how they can be improved or connect more closely with how our customers use them. Customer feedback has told us that the names of the 4 sections in our Magic Quadrants don’t correspond with how many customers choose to interpret them. Despite our efforts to [...]
Category: being an analyst humor Magic Quadrant Tags: April Fools, Challengers, Leaders, MQ, Niche, Real Quadrants, satire, Visionaries
by Jeffrey Mann | December 30, 2009 | 9 Comments
Last year, I did a blog post on what I call my anti-resolutions for the year. Traditionally, many blogs publish their predictions and personal resolutions around the end of the year. So I won’t. Instead, I want to talk about my anti-resolutions for 2010.They are “anti” in a couple different ways. The main one is [...]
Category: being an analyst collaboration email humor Magic Quadrant Microsoft predictions social media social software symposium technology Vendors Tags: a android, chromeOS, humor, integrity, Mac, Magic Quadrant, reply all, scuzzball, sharepoint, social media, Vendors
