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Peter is the managing director of Longhaus and the primary voice of The Naked Chief blog. He founded Longhaus in 2006 following over a decade in international market research and publishing with Forrester Research and META Group (now Gartner). Over the last decade, and after personally participating in several thousand business and sales meetings, public and private presentations and research projects, and writing a few hundred articles, he has come to the conclusion that the profession of ICT analyst research is largely undervalued by the industry he serves. In the decade before starting Longhaus he was only ever asked to explain the research process (how he knew what he knew) once to a journalist and twice to a client. They just never asked. Since starting the company he and his team have been asked twice more in two years. Things are definitely improving, ICT analyst research in Asia Pacific is on the up, and Longhaus is somewhere amongst it all. Peter has also worked for international publishing conglomerates Pearson LLC., and Time Warner Inc., as a staff-writer and book reviewer as well as a strategy advisor to various CIOs of organisations rated within MIS magazine’s Australian Top 50 IT operations.

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Jan 18
2010

Lotusphere 2010: choose the window to your corporate soul

Posted by peter.carr in Lotus, IBM, collaboration, CIO
If you are a CIO or a CEO then there is a very serious question that you must answer this year. Will you be an analytically or a collaboratively-driven organisation? The answer to that simple question will not only frame the future employee desktop and next generation business application strategies for your organisation, but will also dictate the competitive achievements of your company during the next economic cycle.  

Sometimes the problem with being as big as IBM is simply that. At some point there are simply not enough marketing messages to go around. Back in October last year at the Information on Demand event in Las Vegas IBM's execs would have had us believe that next generation business applications will unequivocally be BI led with some analytics thrown in to boot. This was an obvious retort to a similar line of messaging from Larry Ellison at Open World earlier in the year.

Now today at Lotusphere 2010 in Orlando we are being asked by other IBM execs to accept that Lotus Notes (the enterprise collaborative suite-platform) is the window to the corporate soul (the entry point for corporate information platform). Now while it is a compelling argument, in all seriousness what is the story and how must a CIO or CEO choose?

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Mar 02
2009

No one is going to IPO a research portal

Posted by peter.carr in IPO, google, gartner, forrester, CIO, AR

Downturns are always interesting times for the analyst industry. I’ve lived through a couple but always as staff. Layoffs always happen, as we have seen with Gartner and Forrester culling 2-3% of their respective global research headcount over the last month. Australia hasn't been immune. Management changes will occur as well as the usual chop and change of resources between companies. Further consolidation is inevitable.  

What makes this recession interesting is that it is the first since 2005 when the last big spike in new analyst firms (like us) popped up on the radar. Times have been pretty good since then. However as a business owner I am glad that we started almost four years ago and not in the last 12-months. 

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Jan 23
2009

The Anatwitterblogalist and Lotusphere 2009 Wrap-up

Posted by peter.carr in websphere, social computing, picciano, microsoft, lotusphere, Lotus, IBM, CIO, blackberry

I used to take cameras to conferences just to capture some memories for the photo albums but it seems that you’re no longer a professional analyst, twitterer, journalist or blogger (or anatwitterblogalist if you do them all) unless you have a camera. Preferably digital. With both video and still capture functions. And if you are to attend a convention such as Lotusphere, then a landscape or telescopic lens wouldn’t be out of place either. Apparently.

 

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