Mike Gotta

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Michael Gotta
Research Vice President
1 year at Gartner
30 years IT industry

Mike Gotta is a Research Vice President for collaboration and social software at Gartner Research. He has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry, with 14 of those years spent advising business and IT strategists on topics related to collaboration and social networking as an industry analyst. …Read Full Bio

It’s Nice When Old Clothes Still Fit

by Mike Gotta  |  January 28, 2013  |  1 Comment

It’s been three months since I re-joined Gartner and I thought it would be a good time to re-introduce myself via the Gartner Blog Network. For those not familiar with my background, a brief history of my analyst experience:

  • Meta Group 1996-2005
  • Burton Group 2005-2010
  • Gartner Jan 2010-July 2010

Over those years, I’ve covered a range of topics but they all intersected with collaboration and social software – with a particular deep research focus on topics related to social networking. I enjoyed my experience on the vendor-side of the world while at Cisco. It was interesting to see how technologies are brought to market and some of the opportunities and challenges vendors face when moving into new markets. But research is my passion and I’m happy to be back doing something that is so deeply ingrained in the way I look at the world. There are some differences in the way I approach this role now then before that I’d like to share:
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