{"id":126,"date":"2008-08-24T14:38:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T21:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/24\/gartner-hype-cycle-if-you-buy-into-that-kind-of-thing\/"},"modified":"2008-08-24T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T21:38:25","slug":"gartner-hype-cycle-if-you-buy-into-that-kind-of-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/24\/gartner-hype-cycle-if-you-buy-into-that-kind-of-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner Hype Cycle… if you buy into that kind of thing…"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there is one thing I learned at Fortune 500 – it is that Gartner is the ultimate CYA for CIOs.<\/p>\n

I’m not saying that Gartner doesn’t do quality analysis… it just seems to me they are always “fighting the last war” as it were…<\/p>\n

Gartner is the best way to ensure your choice is perceived as safe by the executive suite and board of directors… if you are into that kind of thing…<\/p>\n

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New technologies tend to follow different trajectories of hype, hope, and despair as they are discovered by different groups of people and finally adopted (or ignored) by consumers. Gartner actually goes ahead and charts this hype cycle<\/a> for different technologies. Its latest hype cycle for 2008, shown above, is making the rounds. (It was released in July, but is just now reaching the upward trajectory in its own cycle). According to Gartner\u2019s view of the world, the visibility of new technologies peaks early as initial excitement gains steam. This phase is followed by a \u201ctrough of disillusionment\u201d in which inflated expectations hit reality. But as technologies prove themselves, their visibility begins to grow again at a more measured pace.<\/p>\n

[From Where Are We In The Hype Cycle?<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there is one thing I learned at Fortune 500 – it is that Gartner is the ultimate CYA for CIOs. I’m not saying that Gartner doesn’t do quality analysis… it just seems to me they are always “fighting the last war” as it were… Gartner is the best way to ensure your choice is… Continue reading Gartner Hype Cycle… if you buy into that kind of thing…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}