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Intellectual Moments

by Scott Nelson  |  August 10, 2011  |  4 Comments

Managing any group of bright people has it’s challenges. Years ago, I became concerned that some of the people I managed would 1). suffer from burn out, and 2). need to find fresh input to continue to have good ideas. As such, I developed a concept for them that I called Intellectual Moments. The rules [...]

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What Vendors Are Glad Users Didn’t Know (Until Now)

by Scott Nelson  |  August 3, 2011  |  Comments Off

    Yesterday I wrote about what I learned when I was a vendor. I looked at it from the point of view of what vendors wished their clients new. To be fair, today I talk about what I learned that vendors don’t want you to know. You could call these dirty little secrets. Just [...]

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What Vendors Wish Their Users Knew

by Scott Nelson  |  August 2, 2011  |  Comments Off

Years ago, I left Gartner for a short while to be a vendor. It didn’t work out for me, but I often refer to it as my “period of deep vendor research”. Why it didn’t work is only marginally interesting. More interesting to me is what I learned about being a vendor. I had been [...]

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I found the Cloud

by Scott Nelson  |  March 9, 2009  |  Comments Off

  While I was in London, I got to walk around a bit. As I turned down one street, I found the picture. It was a building with three different signs that announced, it was The Cloud. Finally, I had found it. Many clients are always concerned about where the Cloud is..where will their data [...]

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Welcome to my new blog

by Scott Nelson  |  February 13, 2009  |  Comments Off

Gartner continues to expand it’s blog presence, and I am part of the second wave. I am really looking forward to sharing my thoughts outside of the formal research process, and hopefully, having some good give and take with readers. The main question I have been getting is what will you be talking about? Those [...]

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Hello world!

by Jim Carolan  |  February 10, 2009  |  Comments Off

Welcome to Gartner Blog Network. Stay tuned for more developments in the Gartner Blog Network!

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