{"id":1122,"date":"2014-08-06T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/gartner-adopts-hfs-blueprint_080614\/"},"modified":"2014-08-06T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:02:00","slug":"gartner-adopts-hfs-blueprint_080614","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/gartner-adopts-hfs-blueprint_080614\/","title":{"rendered":"Great to see Gartner adopting our HfS Blueprints!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We woke up this morning to a wonderful endorsement<\/a> from the mighty Gartner for all the hard work the HfS team has been putting into developing our HfS Blueprints over the last couple of years, when we proudly launched our revolutionary\u00a0HfS Blueprint crowdsourced methodology<\/a> for evaluating business and IT service providers. \u00a0Yes indeed folks – Gartner has announced it is doing its own<\/em> “Blueprints research”!<\/p>\n

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Since we released the first Blueprint Report almost 18 months’ ago, the HfS Blueprint has become one of the industry’s best known and most popular methodologies for assessing provider capability and competitive market landscapes, with fourteen Blueprint reports now published (you can view all the HfS Blueprint highlights here<\/a>). \u00a0Enterprise buyers have used the Blueprint Reports exhaustively as an assessment guide for their provider portfolio management, and many advisors rely on it to sanitize their own provider selection processes with their clients.<\/p>\n

So does this mean Gartner will take onboard the key tenets of the HfS methodology, in addition to leveraging the broad community data we gather from 1000’s of industry constituents, when it develops its own “Blueprints”? \u00a0Let’s recap how we develop and execute on the HfS Blueprint methodology – and you can make up your own mind<\/em> whether you think Gartner will deviate away from its Magic Quadrant process for assessing tech suppliers:<\/p>\n

The Tenets and Objectives of the HfS Blueprint:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n