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Dec 06
2007
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The Art of Corporate and Industry Reinvention
In the month when we launch our industry trends for the year ahead (check the website next week) I thought it appropriate to take a look at our little part of the industry and one possible sceanrio for what we may feasibly look like in the next 10-years.
Back in June I wrote about Gartner's exit from the Australian ICT consulting environment. To save you re-reading the blog, the basic premise was that demand (what the customer was willing to pay) was not the reason. It was merely an inadequate depth of financial relationship with its Australian customers that alluded the Connecticut-based advisory firm. Of course the local dichotomy to that was the perceived lack of relationship heaped upon those same Australian clients.
For the last few years I have always held that Gartner isn't the real competition to the likes of IDC, Forrester, and Ovum ? and yes even us and the other 15 tech research companies in Australia (did I get the numbers right Len?). Now that's not to say that we don't pursue the same client-base with similar product and service. What I have meant is simply that Gartner has changed direction. They have entered a new pond. But it hasn't been all on their own terms...