With rapid technological advancements, the demand for IT talent continues to outpace supply. According to the Gartner 2024 CIO Talent Planning Survey, 79% of responding organizations plan to increase their IT staff levels in 2024. Despite waves of layoffs from the tech sector, it remains difficult to hire qualified talent with high-in-demand skills such as GenAI, AI, machine learning and cybersecurity. These skills gaps threaten organizations...

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...

As AI spending and adoption accelerate, significant opportunities and challenges arise for enterprises. CFOs play a crucial role in managing the financial implications of this transformative technology. With the rapid integration of AI, finance leaders must navigate potential costs and risks to maintain organizational stability and competitiveness. Key challenges include categorizing AI initiatives, evaluating their financial impact and addres...

Cost and value are the levers driving all business outcomes with the exception of cybersecurity, until now. Executive boards want cybersecurity managed like other business risks. Measuring cybersecurity value delivery and establishing a standard of care accrues benefits, shifting the landscape in cybersecurity investment. Security and risk leaders must be able to communicate the risks, value and cost of cybersecurity to their board of director...

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...

Artificial intelligence (AI) teams perceive risk differently than security or compliance teams. Security teams focus on AI application attack surfaces, but with forthcoming regulations worldwide, organizations cannot overlook concerns such as data and model drift, uncontrolled bias, and privacy and security concerns specific to AI model training and deployment. Join this complimentary AI webinar as Gartner experts share how to best secure AI a...

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...