A Wit Emulates Chip Foose with a Magic Gartner Touch Up
August 18, 2015
I am out of the loop when it comes to mid tier consulting firms and analyzing their outputs on a regular basis. Much of the content is thinly disguised word play designed to generate sales leads. Think data lake and customer care.
I am out of the loop on almost everything. When my squirrel powered Internet connection works, I am lucky if I can see 10 percent of a Yahoo.com page before my connection fags out.
I was able to read a story I found subjective and (okay, I admit it) amusing. If Jack Benny were alive, his writers might have incorporated the information into a Buck Benny episode with Andy Devine explaining the Gartnerian motion.
The write up was “Yellow and Blue Circles, Red Arrows Add to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.” To me, I thought immediately of Chip Foose and his ability to take a ho hum vehicle, add some Foose-tian touches, and thrill the owner. I see these make overs as a Foose-tian deal with the devil, however. I like the autos as they are.
The write up pivots on a person taking two Gartner magic thingamajigs and tried to figure out what changed between two reports about something called “integrated systems.” I don’t know what that means, but as previously stated, I am in rural Kentucky.
Nothing catches the eye like an annual matrix analysis touch up. These are expensive and, in the end, subjective. Congruence? Similarity?
The point of the write up struck me as:
Incidentally, Valdis Filks, Gartner’s lead on the Magic Quadrant reports, tells us how to position and interpret MQS in Gartner’s set of reports about supplier ranking and positioning: “The MQ is focused on the ability of vendors to succeed in a specific market, rather than about products. There is lots in it about understanding customer needs, direction, service, marketing, support, innovation and many other criteria.”
I think I understand. Subjective decisions. No problemo.
The plotting of two magic whatevers (MWs) revealed:
There’s been a lot of movement and five new entries. Two previous entries have disappeared as well; Bull and Unisys.
Wasn’t Bull the Amesys owner? Doesn’t Unisys maintain Burroughs’ computers? I thought IBM did Linux mainframes and Watson? And Huawei? Okay.
My take pivots on this question, “What the heck is an integrated system?” Everything, including the choice of arrow color seems somewhat arbitrary. General Eisenhower’s box, as I recall, relied sometimes on actual data.
What did that guy know? Probably not much about integrated systems.
Stephen E Arnold, August 18, 2015
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