
Blueprint to Re-Cycle the much Hyped MagiK Kvadrant
Fellow Enterprise Irregular and HfS Research Founder Phil Fersht introduced their new Blueprint with an appropriate title: Step aside Magic Quadrant, hello Blueprint. I think such a milestone warrants a historical overview of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, Hype Cycle, Magic Cycle, Magic Hype, Hyped Magik… or any other variation you prefer. And since it’s just a few […]

The truth about Magic Quadrants, Waves etc
My friends at Horses for Sources are introducing their Blueprint which they position as “not reliant on the arbitrary viewpoint of a single analyst” as say a Gartner Magic Quadrant or a Forrester Wave. I hope they do well with it, but there are some fundamental flaws with the MQ or Wave that I am […]

Step aside Magic Quadrant, hello Blueprint
After three years of hard labor, we, at HfS, are proud to launch our first “HfS Blueprint” that we believe is the a revolutionary crowdsourced methodology for evaluating business and IT service providers.