Our Partners

The Mesabi Group teams with one or more of these partners as appropriate and necessary to meet your business objectives. The Mesabi Group has the project management expertise to create a virtual project team that scales to bring the right resources at the right time to meet your business requirements at a reasonable price. Whether your need is for primary market research, strategic market consulting, IT infrastructure analysis, or in-depth storage and storage management research, the Mesabi Group can help.

	Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, Inc., publishes an informative electronic newsletter once a week called Pund-IT Review. Mesabi Group contributes about one article a month to Pund-IT Review (copies of the individual articles are available on the Mesabi Group Portfolio page). In addition, Pund-IT and Mesabi Group collaborate on joint consulting and writing projects.
	Mesabi Group retains Valley View Ventures (V3) as a business development agent. V3 represents over 30 leading IT industry analyst firms.
	Primary market research can help you better understand the product and market directions that you should take. Mesabi Group, in conjunction with International Communications Research (ICR) one of the 50 largest market research firms in North America, can deliver the right research that meets your business requirements. That research can range from the simple (Web survey) to the standard (phone survey) to the most powerful and value-adding (SIMALTO as an alternative to conjoint analysis.
	Many organizations turn to a storage industry analyst for product positioning and messaging, but turn to a management consulting firm for strategic market planning. Yet having a deep understanding of both technology and business and how they interact is essential for both sets of activities. The principals at both Mesabi Group (storage domain expertise) and John S. Hammond Associates (strategy, marketing, and decision-making expertise) have worked closely together for more years than they would like to publicly admit. Dr. John Hammond, a former professor at the Harvard Business School, is the co-author of "Smart Choices," a recent book on how to improve decision making in business
	Wayne Kernochan, the founder of Infostructure Associates and I have teamed to provide a cross-functional perspective on the IT infrastructure on many occasions to a wide range of high-tech companies as executives of both Yankee Group and Aberdeen Group over the last 15 years. Infostructure Associates specializes in development solutions, databases, and related software infrastructure such as EII (Enterprise Information Integration), as well as their application to new technologies such as Web services, grid computing, and Business Process Integration.