@bazzacollins they are much better at describing the past than the future IME
Has anyone ever been sacked at a tech analysts' firm for consistently getting predictions wrong?
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@timanderson Quite. There's definitely an investigation to be had into these firms. Would love to follow the money trail. -
@bazzacollins@timanderson the worse the predictions, often the more successful the analyst... http://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2014/02/12/stockholm-syndrome-part-ii/ … -
@ballantine70@timanderson Interesting. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of reports did you used to pay Gartner/IDC for? -
@bazzacollins@timanderson ...a big spreadsheet, basically, of consistent feature analysis where you could bias what was important to you. -
@ballantine70 Have never seen those. Thanks for the feedback. -
@bazzacollins no problem. 10 years ago I guess. Can't see anything similar today. It's all "what to do" playbooks now not decision support.
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@bazzacollins Course not. There'd be no one left -
@david_hewson Well, quite. Amazes me that people pay tens of thousands for these companies' reports. -
@bazzacollins Never understood. Who buys the stuff? -
@david_hewson Christ knows. But one presumes someone must do, otherwise Gartner, IDC et al would have gone bang years ago. -
@bazzacollins We missed our chance!
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