Onward and upward

As you may have seen by now, I have taken the decision to take a step back from working at Freeform Dynamics. When I first became an analyst some ten years ago now, little did I know what the journey would have in store. As far as I was concerned with my background as an [...]

Conference keynotes, and the gulf between simple and complex

Another day, another keynote. This time it’s Microsoft TechEd in New Orleans, and Bob Muglia is on stage being all thrilled about all those new and improved aspects fo IT. Three weeks ago it was Ajei Gopal at CA World. Today, elsewhere in the US IBM is kicking off its Rational conference, and I believe [...]

How much “innovation” is just keeping up appearances?

Focus on business challenges, not technology innovations The IT industry really does bring out the best and worst traits of human nature. Were we always quite so excitable about the latest big thing? It is difficult to tell, as historical records don’t tend to preserve the glee reserved for all things new and improved, whether [...]

Welcome Barry and Andrew

It is with great pleasure… Well, I would say that, wouldn’t I. But it really is with great pleasure that I’d like to introduce two new members of the Freeform Dynamics team, Barry Saunders and Andrew Buss. Barry Saunders has joined us in a business development role for strategic accounts. Barry’s got a solid history [...]

Looking back… and forward

This year has not been easy for many. By all accounts it has been a polarised recession: some of the largest companies have fallen, while for others, business has been booming. The stock markets plummeted only to rebound; organisations have offered themselves up for sale and then decided, actually, they could go it alone; redundancy [...]

European analyst of the year

Well I certainly wasn’t expecting that! A couple of weeks ago, Freeform Dynamics and yours truly were announced as award winners in the annual IIAR survey of analyst relations professionals. Here’s the stickers: From an EMEA perspective, Freeform Dynamics was ranked as number 2 after Gartner. I was selected as EMEA analyst of the year, [...]

Changing roles

I hope this explains somewhat why my blogging has been a little restricted recently… http://freeformcomment.blogspot.com/2008/12/taking-reins-at-freeform-dynamics.html Onward and upward!

On press releases and ambulance chasing

A while back, I remember seeing a sketch by Eddie Izzard. The detail eludes me but roughly speaking it covered the cyclic nature of being cool. One could progress from totally uncool, to slightly cool, to cool, to – put one matchstick in the corner of the mouth – very cool, to – put another [...]

Shoulder standing 101: being influenced by the influencees

These are indeed “interesting times” to be an influencer of any form, not least as we see the democratisation of influence – interestingly, not a term that has yet been adopted particularly widely. It is a timeless truth that every human being has an opinion, which is expressed more or less willingly; what has changed is [...]