- Service offering is a little out of line with today's economy and the needs of CMO/CTO's
- Ton's of TURN OVER!! (That is within the AM/Sales roles, feels a lot like copier sales.)
- Very aggressive quotes for today's economy (I meet 110% of my quota, fyi), companies don't have the IT Research Budgets these days as they did in early/mid 2000's. I feel that the quota's are driven by Gartner's resent acquisitions (Burton, etc) and large "IT/Conference" spends (10+ Million).
- Analysts are a pain to work with. Internal channels don't help when it comes to setting up analyst calls with clients. A lot of push back from analyst because they are over-worked, over committed. IE: An analyst is said to cover an area of technology but when asked the analyst say's they don't cover that space, WTF?
- Market Share is dropping: When I worked for Gartner you are "told" that Gartner is the greatest thing sense slice bread, etc. When I got back into the work force, I came to realize and learn that Forrester is much closer than I thought.