Back in December 2009, someone named Gabriel Gheorghiu, writing for something called the "TEC Blog", penned an interesting piece entitled "What-if Scenarios for Analyst Firm Mergers and Acquisitions":
Now that Gartner is acquiring AMR, we cannot help but wonder what will be the next acquisition or merger in the business software research field. There are not so many companies doing business software research and analysis, so the number of permutations is quite low. Let’s look at some of them and what the end result would be.
Gartner acquires Aberdeen and launches The Magic Axis (Magic Quadrant + Aberdeen Axis). If theydecide to acquire Forrester, that would be the Magic Wave (Magic Quadrant + Forrester Wave). Aberdeen and Forrester will probably not merge or acquire one another because the Axis Wave simply doesn’t sound right.
To avoid any COMMfusion, ITI and ITTI could merge and form ITTTI. After US President Obama’s visit to China, Maverick China Research and the Yankee Group might merge, forming the strongest analyst firm in the world, which will slowly acquire all competitors.
Although we are flattered by Mr. Gheorghiu's predictions, such a merger just wouldn't make sense for us. To be sure, moving several hundred employees from Boston to Beijing would be a bit of a hassle. The biggest problem, however, would be explaining the move to our current employees, who already think we're the "strongest analyst firm in the world"....
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