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Gartner Hype Cycle

Variations on Hype Quadrants.. no Magic Hype… no, Hype Cycle.. or is it Magic Quadrant?

Variations on Hype Quadrants.. no Magic Hype… no, Hype Cycle.. or is it Magic Quadrant?

By Zoli Erdos on April 1, 2011

Gartner introduced their Real (Magic) Quadrant: Not bad.  But let’s not forget the customers’ prospective. Welcome to the Magik Kvadrant: But perhaps most revealing is Phil Fersht’s Painsharing Paradox: Enough of this quadrants, squres, cubes… let’s hype up some cycles.  Superseding the Gartner version, here’s the Wailgum Hype Cycle: Not bad.  Still a bit complex.  […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged gartner, Gartner Hype Cycle, Humor, Hype Cycle, Magic Quadrant | 2 Responses

Unhyping Gartner’s Hype Cycle, Part 2.

Unhyping Gartner’s Hype Cycle, Part 2.

By Zoli Erdos on July 22, 2010

Here’s Part 1.  The reason I’m doing it again is that Michael Krigsman just published the Wailgum Hype Cycle: Not bad.  Still a bit complex.  Me thinks the simplified,  geekified, scobleized, oprahized, too-oh-ized version of the Gartner Hype Cycle still works: And if it doesn’t – well, it’s almost Friday. In fact for some of […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Gartner Hype Cycle, Humor, Hype Cycle

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