A good IT strategy defines the outcomes that IT will deliver in support of the business strategy. However, a good IT strategy alone does not guarantee success. CIOs must create an IT strategic plan that translates the strategy into initiatives that will deliver the required outcomes. They also need to effectively communicate that plan to build support and commitment of stakeholders across the enterprise. Join this complimentary Gartner IT stra...

Times of uncertainty, stress and competing pressures make it easy to become resistant to the smallest changes or new ideas. More than 46% of board members surveyed, expressed concerns about long-term uncertainty and another 39% voiced worries about the potential for global or regional recession. To help themselves and those who they lead through difficult times, leaders in all industries, including government, must become verbal diplomats. Joi...

Contemporary patterns for security protection do not seem fully applicable to modern realities, including public cloud computing, digital democratization, AI adoption and radical outsourcing. While Gartner identified a number of new success patterns, it will take several years to fully establish best practices for continuously evolving digital environments. As key enablers of digital business, chief information security officers (CISOs) and se...

The economic headwinds affecting enterprises make it easy for executive leaders to delay innovation. However, leaders with the courage to innovate have typically come out ahead and understand the importance of innovation - education, learning, creativity, and exploration. Innovation leaders need a foundation that can align with business goals and deliver business outcomes using a more robust series of measurements. Join this complimentary Gart...

CIOs and IT leaders routinely make a “business case” to secure funding for technology initiatives. Yet, many provider technology projects lose their stakeholder value during execution. To maintain alignment with stakeholder expectations, CIOs should adopt an outside-in strategy, focusing deeply on understanding stakeholder value propositions. In this complimentary Gartner IT webinar, we will look at examples of the five fundamental...

CEOs and boards of directors want more technology delivery to happen directly in business areas. To enable this shift, CIOs must boost their engagement with other CxOs and revisit the mission and structure of their IT organizations. Join this complimentary webinar as a panel of Gartner experts explore why CIOs must increase CxO engagement to change the way technology projects are funded and find new ways to communicate the business value of IT...

During economic and social volatility, organizations achieve success through sustainable efficiency. Organizations must determine how to make the best possible use of new technology developments that could cause significant disruption over the next three years, such as generative AI, and embrace the connected workforce nature while remaining resilient. Join this complimentary Gartner webinar as a Gartner expert explores the Top Strategic Techn...

For chief information officers (CIOs) to get the optimal return on their spending on IT staff, they first must evaluate how staffing levels will impact the delivery of IT services for business continuity and enterprise performance. Then, they must develop an action plan that aligns with business objectives. Failure to align IT investment and related staffing levels to business outcomes leads CIOs to focus on short-term cost goals rather than l...

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...