Thank You To Our Clients, Peers, Alliance Partners, Readers, Friends, And Followers

One year ago today, Charlene, Deb, Jeremiah, and I announced the transformation of Altimeter Group from a single analyst firm to a partner model.  As the founding partners, we set course on four areas of focus: Innovation, Customer, Leadership, and Enterprise.  Our goal — advise our clients on how to adopt and navigate the chaotic world of emerging and disruptive technologies.

Despite starting in the midst of an epic recession, we each brought with us a precious handful of clients who believed in us, our work, and our ability to advise them.  Our VP of Business Development and Sales, David Stanley, took a chance on us without a salary.  Our friends at V3, helped us navigate the crazy world of PO’s and procurement organizations. Over the first 3 months, we built our firm one client at a time.  With continual trust and encouragement, our clients drove our growth in 2009.

Based on our original strategy and strong input from our clients, we added Alan Webber, Lora Cecere, Michael Gartenberg, and Marcia Conner to our founding year partner roster.  They expanded our coverage to include public sector, supply chain strategies, mobile and personal technologies, and enterprise 2.0 collaboration.  Along the way, we added nine extraordinary founding year staff members in sales, research, consulting, and in our back office.  We moved from the original Hangar to the current Hangar 2.0 to account for the growth.

It’s been quite a ride in a year and I can not say this enough, “Thank you to our 100+ clients!  Thank you to our peers, alliance partners, readers, friends and followers!  Without you, we wouldn’t be here today!”

What’s Next?

The confluence of media, research firms, think tanks, and expert networks continue to blur the line and create new models.  From day one, we saw opportunities to change the existing pay wall-based analyst firm models.  We put our best research on our blogs.  We collaborated with other thought leaders and influencers.  We spent time building programs with our clients to focus on both high touch and high scale advisory work.

In our next year, you can expect us to continue to evolve around our client needs.  We must always innovate to find new ways to best serve our clients.   We will keep crafting strategies to unleash business value in the next set of emerging technologies.  We will always to take a holistic approach.  And most importantly, we will remain humbled by the brilliance of the talent, technologies, and relationships that surround us.

Your POV.

Your comments about how we work, what we should look into next, and how we can improve are always welcomed.  Please post your comments here or send on to rwang0 at gmail dot com or r at softwaresinsider dot org and we’ll keep your anonymity.

Related blog posts:

20100827  Altimeter Blog – Charlene Li “Altimeter’s One Year Anniversary”

20090827  A Software Insider’s Point of View – R “Ray” Wang “Personal Log: Altimeter Group – Helping Organizations Bridge The Technology Obsolescence Gap”

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Altimeter Group Adds Supply Chain and Public Sector Coverage

Our enterprise strategy clients continue to seek advice on how to apply disruptive technologies to change their business models, innovate around their processes, or adjust their organizational structure.  We’re seeing demand for a point of view that may start with customer strategy and end with supply chain management or begin with government innovation and move quickly to social CRM.  This approach requires deep industry experience and a holistic approach that encompasses topics, industries, market sizes, and or roles.  As we grow, we will continue to add individuals with a passion for collaboration and innovation. In fact, we’ve already added Valerie Cachola as our operations manager, who will keep the planes in the air.  And as part of our growth plan for Altimeter Group and the Enterprise Strategy practice, please welcome the latest Altimeter Group partners Alan Webber and Lora Cecere!

Alan Webber, Government Innovation

With a strong focus on making organizations more efficient and more effective, Alan helps government agencies manage the impact of emerging and disruptive technologies and improve interactions between government and citizens and businesses. Returning to his roots, Alan will also be helping organizations understand the impact and role of clean technologies and sustainability in business.

Alan has more than 16 years of business and government management and technology experience working with commercial and government clients around the globe. Prior to striking out on his own and joining Altimeter Group, Alan was a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research where he covered government and the B2B user experience.  Prior, he led various strategic planning, performance management, eGovernment, and Web initiative efforts for the US government at the Department of the Interior and the National Science Foundation.

When it comes to cross collaboration, Alan will mesh well with the other Altimeter team members. Together with Jeremiah Owyang, Alan will be helping government agencies and leaders use social media to better engage with citizens and businesses. Alan and Ray Wang advising clients on the implementation of ERP and CRM systems in the public sector.

Connect with Alan on twitter at @AlanWebber, or read his blog.

Lora Cecere, Supply Chain Management

With deep experience in using enterprise applications to drive supply chain excellence, Lora provides early adopters with a first mover advantage. For software vendors, Lora provides strategic guidance in go to market strategies; reviews and designs software licensing, pricing, support, and maintenance policies; delivers competitive assessments; evaluates software partner ecosystems; and actively researches the evolution of business processes like supply chain compliance, deduction management, order-to-cash effectiveness, supply chain metrics, and emerging supply chain processes.

Her analyst experiences include Vice President roles at Gartner Group and most recently at AMR Research.  Before serving as an industry analyst, Lora was a line-of-business user/buyer and a builder of enterprise solutions.  She’s launching a new blog, Supply Chain Shaman , and is on
Twitter at @lcecere.

Your POV

Got topic ideas for coverage?   Interested in working at Altimeter Group?  Got a disruptive technology or business model?  Please post or send on to rwang0 at gmail dot com or r at softwareinsider dot org and we’ll keep your anonymity.

Related blog posts discussing this announcement.

Alan Webber’s post on his blog - Alan update – Joining Altimeter Group!

SageCircle - With expansion and professionalism, Altimeter Group raises its relevance with both enterprises and vendor analyst relations

Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang - Growth at Altimeter Group: Supply Chain Management, Government Innovation

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