Increasing government budget pressures, including requests to cut IT spend and potential administration changes in a U.S. election year, make a strong IT-CFO partnership paramount to organizational success. Government CFOs and IT leaders must continue to invest in transformational technology capabilities and reduce risk, all while managing technology costs and volatile funding scenarios. Join this complimentary Gartner webinar as a cross-funct...

Nearly 83% of human resources leaders say they struggle to find enough talent with the necessary skills, and only 44% of employees report that career development at their organization is effective at facilitating employee growth. In this context, over 90% of organizations are considering or implementing shifts to skill-based talent management. Technology vendors and consultancies have taken notice, packaging their solutions and services around...

As 2024 unfolds, we face another wave of challenges and opportunities for the future of work. Anticipation of the productivity impact of technology is at an all-time high, with pressures to control costs also rising. Four years of intense change left us with an exhausted workforce, and over half of the world’s population will experience a national election in 2024. Despite these challenges chief human resource officers (CHROs) have an ex...

Difficult team members may fixate over technicalities, disdain innovation and think you (or others) are after them. The repercussions of their negative behavior can range from difficult to toxic — gossiping, unreliability, undermining, bullying, insubordination, display of incivility, and insolence. All of these actions have impactful ramifications for the organization and its workforce in terms of the overall climate, culture, engagemen...

Chief marketing officers (CMOs) have an imperative to drive efficient growth in a volatile environment. A key challenge for CMOs in 2024 and beyond is disruption in the typical rules of customer value exchange as customer behaviors fluctuate in unpredictable ways. The most effective strategy for CMOs to maintain their competitive edge and surpass consumers' evolving expectations and behaviors is to possess a current comprehension of their targ...

Over the past three years, HR has been at the forefront of remarkable organizational transformations, driving workforce flexibility, and boosting accountability for employee well-being and equity. These changes have surpassed prior expectations for leaders of what their people, systems and technologies could accomplish. Now, as HR grapples with its evolving role, the pressing question arises: how can we harness this newfound influence to tackl...

Most hybrid-work practices were implemented in haste in 2020, and technology and management strategies from location-centric work are inefficient in a hybrid world. Patchwork and piecemeal approaches are limiting the effectiveness of the leadership strategies and technology categories that will help make hybrid work successful. Ongoing polarization of views on where work is best done and uncertain returns on investments in corporate space have...

Government IT projects are often prone to failure, and too often, the blame falls on CIOs and IT leaders. Much of the cause of project failure is usually unrelated to the IT department itself or the technology. It can be attributed to an unwillingness or inability of senior government executives to engage in effective decision making, poor IT investment decision-making processes, and the failure of government executives to take responsibility...

Given the existing pressures to increase efficiency, deliver seamless customer experiences and provide data-driven insights to the business, HR shared services functions must evolve and expand to include more processes and teams. Many HR leaders are transforming their shared services teams into HR operations functions that act as centralized, dedicated groups to provide employees and managers with the proper infrastructure and support to effic...

The array of environmental, political, and social challenges that organizations must manage has continued to rise, and their impact on human capital is more significant than ever. Join this complimentary HR webinar to understand how CHROs can effectively identify and monitor human capital risks posed by a number of environmental, political, and social threats. You’ll gain insight into how you can build a resilient HR organization to succ...