Personal Log: Social Media Detox, Not Sure I Like It
The Great Fire Wall Is Alive And Well Yesterday I arrived in Beijing, China. It’s my first visit to the Chinese capital and I’m excited to speak about innovating in the Cloud at Oracle’s Cloud World event (see Figure 1). Upon arrival, I went through my usual motions of logging in to wifi, taking pictures […]
The Sad State of The Industry Analyst Business And The Need For A Code Of Ethics
Unchecked Bad Behavior Plagues Both Vendors And Analysts. I’ve dreaded writing this post for a long time. I normally think the best of everyone. Yet, in the course of building our business at Constellation Research, I have to say I’ve seen everything that can go wrong with the industry analyst business. I’m almost embarrassed to […]
The 7 Tenets Of Building A “Star Analyst” Firm
Inspired By The Lessons Learned From Others Before Me One day on a family vacation in June 2009, my dad came up to me and said, “Son, why are you working so hard for someone else?” Coming from my father, a “company man” who worked 30 years at the same company and rose from the […]
