Inflection points and wild cards continually threaten to shake up industries. However, future-fit organizations survive disruption by actively sensing and responding to changes. Still, more than 60% of organizations do not have a formal process for this type of trendspotting, according to a Gartner survey. Executives who are not adequately trendspotting already likely will miss critical inputs to their strategic assumptions and planning. This...

The pandemic work experience proved hybrid work is here to stay for many organisations. As per Gartner survey, 66% of HR leaders report their company is operating in a hybrid work environment today. Furthermore, 30% say they are planning for a permanent hybrid work model. Digital workplace leaders face far more complex challenges than deploying the right productivity tool or maintaining operational fitness discipline. For an effective hybrid w...

Your IT strategy should not exceed one page. Yes, one page. Especially in tougher economic times, your strategy must be clear and concise, so that your team and stakeholders can more easily grasp its benefits, encouraging them to invest more in business capabilities enabled by technology. So, how can you get your strategy down to a single page? Join this complimentary, interactive workshop as Gartner strategy expert Heather Colella takes your...

High-tech product and service providers face constant pressure to differentiate themselves from their competition. That pressure mounts as economic conditions get tougher and buyers get more selective in what they buy and how much they spend. Tech marketers must determine what your buyers find most compelling as the economy gets tighter. What do buyers see as effective differentiation? What are they looking for beyond feature and function? Thi...

Synthetic data accelerates digital business by enabling artificial intelligence (AI) where data is unavailable or unusable. However, the market is nascent and customer awareness is low. This complimentary webinar draws on Gartner’s intensive interviews with more than 40 organizations to help product leaders navigate synthetic data’s opportunities and challenges. Identify opportunities your customers are missing that synthetic data...

Tough economic times generate concerns of immediate cost-cutting directives. Yet, more companies do not want to inhibit their digital acceleration initiatives. Thus, they look for ways to optimize costs, to use potential savings or efficiencies as investments for digital acceleration. Chief financial officers often lead this charge, creating a need for a strong CFO-CIO partnership to enable short-term savings to maintain medium- and long-term...

As organizations implement their postpandemic work models, hybrid working increasingly becomes an irreversible part of organizational life. CHROs’ greatest concern is how they can maintain their culture without in-person experiences taking place in the organization-controlled spaces they utilized before. The good news is that a strong experience of culture is still possible with hybrid work designs, but it requires leaders to work in mor...

Each month Gartner assesses what CIO’s are asking us about the most. We’re compiling these insights into a quarterly update to extend guidance to you, too. Budgets, financial planning, and digital investment decisions have moved to the top of the list in CIO conversations. Dramatic change in inflation and recent economic shocks mandate an immediate reassessment of IT financial management strategy. Executive leaders worldwide alread...

As cyber attacks pose a growing, more serious threat to supply chain operations, our supply chains are not as secure as they should be. Supply chain leaders are not experts in cybersecurity, and they need to establish tight governance approaches with IT and security counterparts across the enterprise to protect supply chain IT, cyber-physical systems, and products. The threat vectors extend well beyond the enterprise, reaching into the third-p...

Uncertain economic environments pressure organizations to find immediate IT cost savings. CIOs facing this challenge must determine how to approach cost cutting in the least damaging way to the medium- and long-term health of the business. This complimentary IT webinar, the second in a three-part series on how CIOs can turn tough economic times to their advantage, looks at the 10 rules that will help IT leaders realize immediate cost savings w...