Dive into the quantum realm and explore how quantum computing (QC) is setting the stage for a major paradigm shift in technology and business. Quantum computing is poised to revolutionize data encryption, amplify decision-making in complex scenarios, speed up R&D, refine financial models and redefine AI-driven insights. Its emergence could result in competitive realignments, the birth of novel markets, and redirection of strategic investme...

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 eff...

Best practices don’t last forever; next practices need to be a focus, too. Gartner Maverick research delivers breakthrough, disruptive and sometimes contradictory ideas that challenge conventional thinking. Part of Gartner Futures Lab, it is designed to explore alternative opportunities and risks that could influence your strategy. It opens the door to challenge your thinking by considering less-obvious developments envisioned by Gartner...

Leadership transitions are a common occurrence across governments, especially in an election year. Yet, perhaps not at this pace. For the first time in history, more than 70 countries will hold elections this year, impacting more than 4.2 billion people—over half of the global population. Eleven U.S. states are holding gubernatorial elections, the United States will be electing a president, and numerous provincial and municipal elections...

Technology sector marketing budgets largely remained stable or even slightly increased up to two percentage points despite budgetary pressures. The 2024 Gartner Tech Marketing Benchmarks Survey provides a detailed analysis of marketing investments, brand strategy and activation, brand awareness and demand generation, account-based marketing (ABM), and the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on tech marketing organi...

Organizational structures can create silos and barriers that hinder collaboration and communication, leading to delays and inefficiency. To accelerate digital delivery, chief information officers (CIOs) should promote cross-functional efforts by designing structures that support product-team-focused business goals and outcomes. As CIOs evolve IT to a product-delivery-centric operating model, they often have questions like: Which organizational...

CIOs are responsible for developing IT strategies that facilitate and drive enterprise transformation, and ensuring that those strategies are effectively implemented. Effectively communicating the IT strategy to stakeholders is critical to securing the right support, funding and other resources needed to deliver on the plan. CIOs who struggle to personalize their strategic plan communications to their audience may face a lack of support, hinde...

Leadership transitions are a common occurrence across the public and private sectors. Yet, perhaps not at this pace. For the first time in history, more than 70 countries will hold elections this year, impacting more than 4.2 billion people—over half of the global population. Even in countries where elections are conducted freely and fairly, this unprecedented surge will disrupt governments and their civil servants amid mounting global p...

Government CIOs and IT leaders often struggle with how to develop, select and use the right metrics, KPIs and dashboards to present to executive leadership. A successful IT performance measurement program communicates metrics that are important to a target audience. This remains true when communicating IT investments to the business. Join this complimentary Gartner IT webinar as a Gartner expert analyzes benchmarks and metrics to provide an in...

Digital workplace leaders deliver technologies and experiences that help employees drive the best outcomes. As the nature of work evolves rapidly, it becomes essential to understand and prepare for future trends. Join this complimentary Gartner IT webinar as a Gartner expert explores seven predictions of how work will evolve and what digital workplace leaders must do to be ready for what comes next. You will get insights into the strategic tre...