Nick Gall

A colleague of mine was bemoaning the fact that despite the fact he had blogged on a particular topic, an internal Gartner email thread sprung up on the same topic instead of in the comments on his post. This despite the fact that he sent an email to the thread mentioning the post. But all [...]

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While it’s great to talk about the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" and the Plateau of Productivity" what everyone wants to know is "When will this become extinct?" Unfortunately, Gartner’s Hype Cycle does not predict extinctions.
But not to worry, now there’s the Extinction Timeline:
Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050
I think we [...]

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As my friend and colleague Anthony Bradley just pointed out in his blog, our WOA note has finally been published (subscription required) and it’s something that I am very proud of. Not just because my co-authors Anthony, Dan Sholler and I produced a well-crafted piece of research (if I do say so myself), but more [...]

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I recently came across this gem at Jim Zimmermann’s Analyst Perspectives blog:
I had the opportunity to work on several new business presentations to Lou Gerstner, the CEO of IBM at the time. When working on the presentation, we were told in no uncertain terms that we should not even bother bringing a proposal to Gerstner [...]

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I attended Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s “Mastermind Interview” at Gartner’s Web Innovation conference earlier today. It was very entertaining and insightful. My favorite takeaway BY FAR was this:
Marc: “Your application? It’s all metadata.”
Marc: “We run your metadata.”
I find it refreshing that Marc calls this concept “metadata driven” instead of the more hifalutin “model driven”.  The [...]

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