Naivety?

Mike Rothman in response to my post said that I showed a serious level of naivety?

Am I naive or are the people who make their decisions based on the opinion of one analyst naive?

Just journalists spouting common sense…

Been thinking about this more, especially as this week I am attending a ‘Gartner Summit’.

‘Stating the bleeding obvious’ seems to be the theme of most presentations at these type of events. Someone I was chatting to outside said “I can’t believe these guys get respect for telling us what we already know and we pay a lot of money for them to do so” – fair comment?

How do analysts at these type of events show they add value?  Surely they should tell me something new?

So, what am I looking for at this event?

1. Insight into new techologies.
2. inspiring vision and direction.
3. End user case studies/real-world stories.

From experience what am I expecting?

1. Being told what I already know by regularly reading the web etc (i.e. Journalism).
2. Some chronically bad presenting (They need to listen to Seth and Garr)
3. General reporting and bad stats (“I/Gartner estimate”) that I can easily find or make up myself if I wanted to (more journalism).

I’ll let you know how I get on…