Gartner CIO Academy is professional development at the highest level.

Removed from the tactical concerns of the workplace, participants focus on strategic change management, personal productivity, and the critical alignment of technology and business. The learning is highly personal and satisfyingly practical, customized to the needs of each participant.
 
  Gartner CIO Academy is framed around the CIO Decision Cycle (PDF). Every CIO must know how to fast-track success and minimize risk.
  
 
  Orchestrate growth.
The primary job of the CIO is to drive business growth with advanced technology. Your business enabling vision must be clear, and you must communicate it well to the board of directors, your executive colleagues, and your own people. Good governance is critical. Overcoming competing pressures and tensions is essential. Your credibility depends on it.
 
 
  Prepare to win.
As the top IT executive, you have to show how IT can be leveraged to meet business objectives — new products, bigger markets, faster delivery of services. On the road to IT-enabled business, you are the map. You have to understand the critical trends, the emerging technologies, and the priorities of management. The earlier you can plot the route, the greater your value to the enterprise.
 
 
  Make the right moves.
Business growth and profitability depend on your IT strategy. But to succeed, you need a personal strategy that balances risk and return. It has to include trusting partnerships and smart technology acquisitions. You must match IT investments with business goals and anchor everything to an architecture that supports change and catalyzes growth.
 
 
  Transform ideas into results.
Your job is to build a high-performance service organization. Your group must deliver cost effective services that can bring business ideas to fruition, rapidly and intelligently. You must also attract and nurture good people, manage roles and responsibilities, and plan wisely for succession.
 
 
  Achieve beyond expectations.
The CIO has to promise results, then get them. Your team must source agile, low cost services from inside and outside the organization. It's about speed and value and balancing both. You have to set demanding timetables that drive value delivery, ensure disciplined project management, and steer partnerships for maximum yield.
 
 
  Know where you stand.
Control relies on measurement. Perception relies on proof. Track and communicate the evidence of your success: the business value of the IS organization, the business value of IT-enabled technologies, the total cost of ownership. Regularly evaluate performance. Know where you stand, so you can take every new step with confidence.
 
     
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The tuition fee for CIO Academy includes:
Classroom sessions
Program documentation
Individualized diagnostic sessions
Meals (starting with the arrival dinner on Tuesday evening and concluding with lunch on Friday)
Note: CIO Academy is not included with EXP membership
COST: $7,500
For more details about 2006 CIO Academy sessions, please contact
dawn.gudelis@gartner.com or
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