Trends Report

Hardware Vendor Positioning Benchmark, Q1 2008

A Review Of Hardware Marketing Practices With A Self-Assessment Tool

March 26th, 2008
Norbert Kriebel, null
Norbert Kriebel
With contributors:
Pascal Matzke , Bradford J. Holmes , Emily Van Metre

Summary

Forrester used its vendor positioning review (VPR) methodology to evaluate the positioning of eight top hardware vendors across 14 criteria to determine where they are currently positioning themselves on the continuum between information technology (IT) and business technology (BT). We found that six of the eight vendors are positioning themselves as information technology vendors. Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks demonstrate the greatest number of BT-oriented practices and thus position themselves as solution vendors. None of the major hardware vendors is positioned as a business technology vendor. In this report, we illustrate how hardware vendor strategists and their marketing colleagues can use these insights to improve their own positioning.

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