Certainly the dynamic between analysts and investment bankers was on the list, but it was merely one of many.
The case is also unlikely to have much effect on the central market dynamic that analysts say is driving companies out of business: oversupply.
In Budapest, Sandor Ferenczi explored the dynamic between analyst and patient.
(The play's title is a reference to a term from combat medicine, meaning the window of time after a catastrophe in which a doctor can be of use.) For all its obvious topicality, much of "The Vertical Hour" feels like a musty throwback to the psychological puzzle plays of the 1950s, which translated the dynamic of the analyst's couch into theatrical confrontation and revelation.
This groupthink dynamic led intelligence community analysts, collectors and managers to both interpret ambiguous evidence as conclusively indicative of a W.M.D. program as well as ignore or minimize evidence that Iraq did not have active and expanding weapons of mass destruction programs.
The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air.
"He was an important part of the Dow Jones story becoming real and financially dynamic," said Rudy Hokanson, an analyst who follows Dow Jones for CIBC World Markets.
Indeed, Ariba has been building out its portal and commerce capabilities during the past six months, acquiring a company called TradingDynamics last month to give it dynamic pricing capabilities, notes analyst Daniel Garretson of Forrester Research.
Indeed, that dynamic is partly why analyst Stacy Rasgon of the investment firm Sanford C. Bernstein on Friday raised his target price for Broadcom to $60 a share.
The new framework is closely tied with the kind of tasks that intelligence analysts perform: complex, dynamic, and multiple facets and multiple stages.
