It appears that Gartner Consulting is now feeling the cuts - nine more consultants were let go last week. Death by a thousand cuts? If you read Gartner's 1Q25 results, expenses are high. The lack of Gartner's investment in preparing for AI's impact on consulting and advisory services is hitting home for them. Much of what they do is being replaced by AI, as seen in the Big 4 consulting organizations.
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@4zd Ken Allard, what an embarrassment. He only lasted as long as he did as nobody at the top wanted to admit that mistake.
Had the misfortune of working in Gartner Digital Markets, and saw time and time again how they messed it up with a complete lack of strategy. As for Gene and Craig, they lost the plot yeas ago.
I left late last year and it was hard to sell what PM was coming up with. What's up with research now?
Looks like even senior leaders have started going… Ken Allard being the first senior exit from leading Gartner Digital Markets. Surely more GDM folk will go next.
Given the rapidly falling stock price I suspect many more layers of leadership will be impacted, as will many more business units.
Time to turn on the ‘open to work’ banner on LinkedIn….
Feels like Gartner is sinking fast, but still Gene and Craig are heads in the sand.
@3a4 couldn’t agree with this more. The culture is absolutely in the tank, and the Forbes article is spot on. Sales people are pressured to drive short term growth through over aggressive tactics or risk being put on a pip, churned out in favor of a naive newbie willing to push and charge hard at their exhausted client base.
The product team has no answer for AI tools providing 80% of the knowledge of Gartner analysts, the business model is outdated, and the investment community has finally figured it out and reacted accordingly.
What’s worse is that gene and Craig will not admit the company is in trouble, and internally, leadership has their head in the sand.
Not my experience at all.
But respect your perspective, perhaps in other parts of the organization is indeed the case. Dunno.
Generally speaking, this is not the reason why Gartner is where it is either. I Just read some of the post in this thread, and they are spot on.
One of the biggest issues I saw was the non-collaborative relationship between Research and Consulting. It's been allowed to devolve into an adversarial working relationship in many cases, and frankly, it's ridiculous. The CEO is 100% responsible for the work environment, and in my opinion, Gene has failed miserably. If those two Business Units worked together and went to market as a team, I think there would be a significant increase in revenue across the board. Somehow, the front office just doesn't see that.
LOL.
Another gem from the same period is 'significant and often negative long-term impact of layoffs on a company's performance, going beyond the immediate financial considerations.' --- They even created a graph for it too:
https://fortune.com/2023/05/15/mass-layoffs-terrible-for-shareholders-cost-saving/
They follow their own research and advisory 'masterpieces' to a T (nah...).
Just leaving this here…
A four-day workweek is one of the 10 cost savings actions companies can take instead of mass layoffs, Gartner suggests. Trimming the traditional workweek model to four days is “not about cutting pay, but may control pay growth and staff turnover as employees find better work-life balance and increased productivity as burnout is reduced,” the firm noted.
https://fortune.com/2023/05/15/mass-layoffs-terrible-for-shareholders-cost-saving/
"Due to cultural barriers and cognitive biases – most notably an elitist 'Magic Quadrant' mentality which impedes acknowledging the company’s competitive weaknesses and a 'toxic sales culture' that favors short-term revenue over long-term client value -- I question whether Gartner will make the changes needed to revive double digit growth."
"Gartner’s failure to offer a root cause analysis of its slowing growth and a compelling vision of how the company will adapt and restore growth in the face of changing customer needs and competitor strategies may have left investors looking for more, according to the Q2 earnings call."
Source - Forbes Magazine:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2025/08/06/gartner-stock-down-49-learn-why-what-ceo-can-do-and-and-whether-to-buy-it/
THE IRONY: this is the very same company that gives "advisory" about IT culture and transformation.
I feel awful for anyone still with Gartner. As someone who left earlier this year, I’m so glad I jumped ship. They’re feeling the pain of completely ignoring the impact of AI on their business model.
Their approach of silently dripping layoffs across teams over time is pathetic while they publicly pretend everything is fine. Gene Hall has worn out his welcome and needed to leave YEARS ago.
Big mistake, It shows.
Holy cow.... spot on....
Was $584.01 in Feb 4 down to $328.54 on Friday... 43.74% diff,... low is still too high... Agree with other comments, the past 2-3 years were of no product or AI strategy.
@2ap Finance too, and more people from
Digital Markets. Friends in Sales are all pretty worried too.
Federal Consulting was the team cut a few weeks ago.
What teams?
More layoffs just today - multiple teams affected but in such small numbers it seems to happen under the radar.
Suspect more lay offs coming - the stock price is TANKING and management changes are happening every other day. Nobody knows what’s going on - it is total chaos.
"Product management failure coupled with "won't happen to me" attitude."
And, they put product head to lead research. What can go wrong? Team (sales) is having it tougher and tougher...
Quiet cutting and quiet firing - that’s their MO. The number of kool aid drinkers at the org is insane. One minute you’re the best salesperson then the worst the following quarter - just absolutely crazy. There isn’t self reflection on upper management/senior leaders that perhaps the product is truly a nice to have and AI is changing the game.
but, but, but... layoffs are bad.... FOR YEARS they have been doing this, quiet cutting, quiet firing (their favorite)...
https://fortune.com/2023/05/15/mass-layoffs-terrible-for-shareholders-cost-saving/
Staggered layoffs every couple weeks this summer across marketing.
@OP Wild how the loudest government supporters ended up laid off… MAGA megaphones were out here preaching government greatness like it came with a lifetime warranty… only to get laid off by the same system they worshipped. Red hats on, resumes out. Ironic or just poetic unemployment? 😂 #StarsStripesAndRIFS #MAGA #savings #nomorewaste
Product management failure coupled with "won't happen to me" attitude.