Beyond BRIC — David Mitchell’s “geosophical technologies” takes a global view of the IT industry

If you are interested in a global perspective on the IT industry I recommend that you check out David Mitchell’s geosophical technologies blog. David is a VP at Ovum, but geosophical technologies is his personal blog.
One of the best aspects of this blog is that David just does not focus on the so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, [...]

Spotlight on Enderle Group’s Rob Enderle — High profile yes, but also smart and insightful

One of the more controversial analysts in the analyst ecosystem and blogsphere is Rob Enderle. For instance, some of the more colorful posts are “Why Rob Enderle is a moron” and “Rob Enderle: Putting the ‘Anal’ in ‘Analyst’”. This animosity is due to the fact that he gets the most press quotes of any IT industry [...]

Spotlight on IDC’s Crawford del Prete - Always exceeding expectations

Don’t you wish you could say that about every analyst?
First, congratulations to Crawford for his recent promotion to EVP of Global Research. He is running IDC’s technology research as well as the Insights end user research.  As such he manages a wide range of IDC staff, but still manages to make time to wear his [...]

Spotlight on… Gartner’s Carl Claunch – Doing the hard work and delivering client service

One of my favorite sayings is “It’s good to be good, but it’s better to be lucky” and we were definitely lucky in early 2004 when Gartner appointed VP and Distinguished Analyst Carl Claunch as one of the two Lead Analysts for the company Dave and Carter worked at.
 
Up to that point, many of the major companies had great difficulty in [...]