Since last one week there is a interesting conversation going on in the blogsphere - not in general - but the procurement, strategic sourcing areas - between Jason Buch of Spendmatters and Debbi Wilson of Gartner .
Its all started with Jason writing an article how gartner abandoned a blog taking a dig at debbie,and debbie answered it here .
Though I am enjoying most of the readings and comments and counter comments here , I think this more than between Jason and Debbie. Its good that they brought a biggest question in this industry where so called big analysts and advisors are influencing and driving decision making in the industry. I am not sure to what extent all this can be avoided as vendors try to be close to these analysts to get the opinion in favor and industry leaders look for them to get the "good" advice. So in between analysts fetch too important and decisive role to play with both.
Now one has to keep in mind that these analysts are human naturally driven by lot of aspects of business. No doubt they are intelligent, eyes and ear open, work hard to to know each and every angle of the solution, vendor, people, company they reasearch and write about. But at the end everything is driven by opinion that they make from their impression of their study and inputs they received. So if a CFO is making a decision based on a omments from a analyst that "never heard of them so they are not good" - then that guy should better be kicked out as a CFO.
For all industry watcher though - all is happening for good. This is not argument between analysts, its more from vendors and companies whose opinions are driven by analysts. So at the end vendors and customers will win - whatever happens.
write me on pmendki(at)gmail(dot)com or just post a comment here.
Its all started with Jason writing an article how gartner abandoned a blog taking a dig at debbie,and debbie answered it here .
Though I am enjoying most of the readings and comments and counter comments here , I think this more than between Jason and Debbie. Its good that they brought a biggest question in this industry where so called big analysts and advisors are influencing and driving decision making in the industry. I am not sure to what extent all this can be avoided as vendors try to be close to these analysts to get the opinion in favor and industry leaders look for them to get the "good" advice. So in between analysts fetch too important and decisive role to play with both.
Now one has to keep in mind that these analysts are human naturally driven by lot of aspects of business. No doubt they are intelligent, eyes and ear open, work hard to to know each and every angle of the solution, vendor, people, company they reasearch and write about. But at the end everything is driven by opinion that they make from their impression of their study and inputs they received. So if a CFO is making a decision based on a omments from a analyst that "never heard of them so they are not good" - then that guy should better be kicked out as a CFO.
For all industry watcher though - all is happening for good. This is not argument between analysts, its more from vendors and companies whose opinions are driven by analysts. So at the end vendors and customers will win - whatever happens.
write me on pmendki(at)gmail(dot)com or just post a comment here.
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