Disclosures And Ground Rules

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With Influence Comes Responsibility — While social media has given everyone a voice, with that voice, especially for those of us whose voices have considerable reach, comes responsibility.  When something is posted here about a specific vendor/provider/consultancy/media outlet/individual/etc. that isn’t cited in the relevant post as to its authoritative source, it’s our practice to do a fact check with that organization or individual.  Sometimes that’s quite difficult to do, and we weren’t always consistent about this in the early history of this blog, but it’s clear and important policy now.  However, our opinions are absolutely our own, whether positive or negative in the eyes of referenced organizations/individuals, and we make every effort to separate what we believe/our opinions from what we know/verifiable facts.

Disclosures — Where we reference specific vendors/providers who are our clients in such a way that disclosure is appropriate (so not necessarily when several clients are among a longer list of vendors/providers of a particular type), we disclosure forcefully and visibly.  It’s fair to assume that we know a lot more about the products/services/strategies/leadership/etc. of vendors with whom we work closely than we may know about their competitors even though we may study those competitors as observers rather than consultants.  It’s also fair to assume that, as I’ve reduced my client load to a carefully selected and quite small group of vendor/provider clients, I’ve revealed a good bit about how I view the competitive landscape and enterprise software in that selection of clients.  Your judgement  is needed, in addition to my best attempts to be even-handed, in order to determine when my relationships with one or more vendors/providers — and these may well be collegial relationships with their leaders rather than business consulting relationships — have so colored my writing that a particular blog post isn’t sufficiently independent for your use.