Is the day of the rock star analyst officially over? : Enterprise Irregulars

From a stark IT analyst reality check

"It’s my personal concern that the exodus of great individual analysts from the great analyst firms is symbolic of a slow death of the romance and intrigue of the industry analyst industry as we once knew it.  The tech analyst industry grew up on great personalites and thought leaders who thrived on innovation and the exciting changes technology was bringing to the world.  Today, the succession of turgid reports, many of which read like they are written by automated robo-analyst applications with the words Big Data, Cloud, Analytics, Mobility  and Transformation being spewed out at periodic moments, is killing research as we know it."

Is the day of the rock star analyst officially over? : Enterprise Irregulars