SVET Reports
Gartner Hyped Hype Cycle
Today, our little "parade of incompetence", which is headed by Big 4 is joined by another consulting "dinosauria" - "global research and advisory firm" Gartner Inc. (40-years-old, $5 billion in revenues).
They've just published their patented "hype cycle" graph, this time filled in with "Blockchain technologies". It presents itself something like an elliptic curve rotated 90 degree counterclockwise in the two-dimensional axis plain (vertical: "Expectations", horizontal: "Time" ) and divided to 5 "phases": "Trigger", "Peak", "Disillusionment", "Enlightenment" and "Productivity".
Supposedly, as you associate a given technology with one of those phases, then you can predict how soon it reaches "the maturity" ("Productivity").
This particular curve contains about fifty (50) "blockchain technologies" which present itself structural and terminological mess and includes among other such things as "Blockchain for Lead Generation", "Blockchain Data Exchanges"and "Blockchain Society" (whatever all of than supposed to mean).
According to this graph "Smart Contracts" are in the "Pick" phase and have (for some unspecified reason) "2-5 years to maturity", while placed on the curve right after it "Blockchain in Insurance" has 5-10 years. Obviously, Gartner's "analysts" believe that insurance people will be waiting until Gartner allows "smart contracts" to be "matured" enough for them to use its.
That infamous Gartner's "invention" has been already ridiculed for almost two decade for its vulgarity and vagueness (not to mention that during all this time nobody has ever been able to prove that it has any prognostic value what so ever). However, it doesn't prevent Gartner from pushing it to its numerous clients and media outlets from publishing this nonsense.