About
The Focus Group
Tech Industry Research and Analysis for the Agentic Age
About The Focus Group
The Focus Group takes a new-media approach to delivering tech industry research and analysis content. Founded by Jamie Lewis and Mike Neuenschwander, both formerly of the Burton Group (now Gartner), our team remains fiercely independent, cross-cutting, and strategically oriented, while applying these principles to our modern, AI-dominated context.
Our mission is to enable our subscribers to be celebrated agents of change at their organizations. We do this by providing such champions of organizational change with confidence in knowledge, strength in networking, and capabilities with tools.
Powered by an alternative media platform, it’s easy for everyone to participate. There’s no need to deal with purchase orders, analyst/public relations firms, or approvals: simply subscribe. You’ll be way out in front of your peers in your depth of understanding of the forces shaping IT in 2025 and beyond. For paid subscribers, we’re also building a full library of content for enterprise IT practitioners.
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Our Focus: The Agentic Enterprise
Because of AI, enterprises are undergoing a complete re-tooling and expansion period that is forcing a full-scale reorganization. Stunningly, the amount of investment going into AI exceeds that of every other human project undertaken—including the moon missions, the Manhattan Project, and Large Hadron Collider. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, recently stated that the era of SaaS as we know it is over agentic AI will cause the “collapse” of SaaS business applications (both in the sense of demolition and amalgamation). In a few short years, only AI-centric enterprises will exist.
Such immense pressure to adjust rapidly to these market forces is causing systems architects, IT teams, startups, and governments to quickly level up and deploy novel and unproven technologies at a break-neck pace. The Focus Group provides the materials necessary for you and your teams to make this adjustment in style, so become a paid subscriber to access our full portfolio.
Note: to request specific topics of coverage, please write to us: info@thefocusgroup.ai
We Are
Impartial
We are, at heart, pragmatists on a mission to match the right solution to each project. As technologists, we take pride in planning strategically and getting things right the first time.
Naturally, we work with a variety of tech vendors in the course of our work. Still, when working with vendors we insist on our ability to voice our honest beliefs, regardless of the vendor’s size, influence, or cudgeling.
Rigorous
Focus Group members require information and tools that are consistently reliable, but the generative AI is creating mountains of information with questionable guidance. Our approach is to apply extreme rigor in our research and practices in order to identify proven, effective strategies to AI transformation, digital identity, and cybersecurity projects.
Open
Our backgrounds, sources, and networks are open for everyone to observe. We’re happy to field questions about our preferences, mindsets, and experiences, as well. We keep open minds about solving the difficult problems of our day in order to arrive at the proper set of solutions for Focus Group members. To that end, we’ll take briefings, inquiries, and chat sessions from everyone we can, time permitting (with priority going to our premium members, of course).
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