Comments on: Making the Gartner Grade for 2008 http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2007/12/20/making-the-gartner-grade-for-2008/ The source of information and best practices in strategic sourcing. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:58:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Fred http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2007/12/20/making-the-gartner-grade-for-2008/#comment-11146 Fred Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:11:29 +0000 http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2007/12/20/making-the-gartner-grade-for-2008/#comment-11146 What's really unfortunate is that a thought leader like Debbie Wilson is forced to put vendors on Gartner's useless Quadrant in the first place. I've heard Gartner analysts say that they dislike this exercise intensely -- one remarked to me, "I wish that it would crawl into a hole and die." Marketing always triumphs over common sense, though. So here comes the Quadrant! I wonder who will be the uppermost leftest! Or maybe it's the uppermost rightest! Whoo hoo, I can't wait!! What’s really unfortunate is that a thought leader like Debbie Wilson is forced to put vendors on Gartner’s useless Quadrant in the first place. I’ve heard Gartner analysts say that they dislike this exercise intensely — one remarked to me, “I wish that it would crawl into a hole and die.”

Marketing always triumphs over common sense, though. So here comes the Quadrant! I wonder who will be the uppermost leftest! Or maybe it’s the uppermost rightest! Whoo hoo, I can’t wait!!

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