Cut Through the Complexity of Balancing IT Decision Rights for Federated Enterprises

Enterprise operating structures increasingly face challenges from turbulent and uncertain business scenarios. Enterprises often respond with some degree of centralizing, decentralizing or federating their approaches to how decisions are made and accountabilities distributed to become more responsive, capture opportunities or pivot their strategies. Centralized decision making maximizes synergies among business units through better and more effective coordination. Decentralized decisions enable faster, better responses to changing market conditions and constituent needs. Federated decisions seek an optimal balance between centralized and decentralized approaches to better serve constituents while leveraging enterprise-wide efficiencies. Join this complimentary Gartner IT webinar as a Gartner expert provides CIOs with a practical approach to avoiding the common stereotypes associated with centralization, decentralization and federation and to help you determine how to best achieve your business objectives and goals. You will walk away from this session with answers to your vital questions, a copy of the research slides and recommended actions to help you achieve your goals.

• Balance the need for enterprise-wide IT integration and faster market response time

• Define ownership of IT functions, resources and assets across the enterprise and ecosystems

• Continuously refine the IT decision rights matrix to sustain enterprise-business unit alignment.