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  • Effective leaders use technology, which includes IT, to strengthen the customer experience and eliminate costly internal distortions. They are using technology to "amplify" the enterprise. We'll tell you how!
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February 2012

Amplifying the Enterprise: The 2012 CIO Agenda
Effective leaders use technology, which includes IT, to strengthen the customer experience and eliminate costly internal distortions. They are using technology to "amplify" the enterprise. We'll tell you how!

January 2012

CIO New Year's Resolutions, 2012
These resolutions offer CIOs creative, achievable ideas that will augment their main organizational and individual objectives and raise their performance to a distinctively higher level.
Dropping the Cost Floor in IT Can Lead to Competitive Advantage
In the coming years, IT leaders may be asked to cut costs significantly. IT organizations that pursue a strategy that permanently resets the cost structure of IT tend to adopt delivery models and business practices that make the IT organization more productive and more responsive to change.
Seizing Competitive Advantage: New Opportunities in IT
Board Directors have made known their top priority is maintaining competitive advantage but now, more than ever it needs a fresh look! Let Gartner show you how to accurately define competitive advantage in a way that resonates with your board of directors.

December 2011

CIOs Should Address the Impacts of the Euro Crisis on Their Enterprises
Unlike recent economic difficulties, today's crisis has the potential to totally undermine the eurozone and the "harmonized market." Spurred on by the pervasiveness of the Internet, the crisis negatively affects every enterprise or individual doing business in the region.
CIO Strategies to Generate Revenue and Achieve Business Growth
It's time for CIOs to embrace a new CIO manifesto declaring that generating revenue must become a new and central component of their IT organization's mission.

November 2011

2012 Cost Optimization Strategies
IT is being asked to increase its productivity, and this often means doing "less with less." Discover how best-in-class enterprises achieve continuous cost improvement.

October 2011

The CIO's View of Cloud Collaboration: Choose Candidates Wisely
CIOs need to consider the nature of collaboration before committing to the cloud.
How Can CIOs Improve Processes to Manage Expenses and Identify Opportunities?
Best practices CIOs can use to develop IT finance and IT asset management processes.
CIO Attitudes Toward Consumerization of Mobile Devices and Applications
Most CIOs expect a future of substantial diversity, and many plan to introduce new devices and management models, such as employee-owned IT.

September 2011

Four Recession and Growth Strategies That Make Sense for 2012
Recent evidence of slowing economic growth in Western Europe and the United States justifies creating a new set of IT budget strategies for 2012.
How Heavily Are You Engaged With Your Board?
Understand the level of overall engagement of CIOs with their boards of directors.
The Untapped Potential of Mobile: Connecting the Physical World to the Online World
Harnessing mobile devices to improve the physical world can lead to substantial gains.
Why CIOs Are in the Thick of Wicked Problems and What to Do About Them
CIOs who recognize when they are facing "wicked problems" will gain mastery over social and behavioral complexity and show up as next-generation business leaders.

August 2011

Trends Driving Your Mobile Strategy Now Through 2015
2011 will be the most complex year the mobile industry has ever experienced. How will corporations choose and use mobile technology, services and tools to support customers and employees?
Six CIO Risk Management Techniques to Please Your Board
Corporate directors are under pressure to improve their risk management oversight. CIOs can adopt six risk management techniques that will improve the value of their risk management reporting to the board.
Top 10 Technology Trends for 2011 and Impacts on Your IT Strategy
Strategic technologies are those with potential for significant enterprise during the next three years. The impact may be a potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major investment or the risk of being late to adopt.
CIO Advisory: The New Economics of IT
The traditional role of IT and its value are being changed by what Gartner calls the "new economics of IT." This research describes the new sources of value through IT that provide game-changing capabilities for companies seeking competitive advantage.
The Keep-It-Simple Approach: CIO Risk Reporting to the Board
Many CIOs have trouble framing risks in terms that are meaningful to board members who, as a rule, have very little patience for extended discussions of the inner workings of technology.

July 2011

Cloud Computing Strategies to Optimize Your IT Initiatives
Cloud computing is moving from a new idea to the next big strategy for optimizing how IT is used.
The Untapped Potential of Mobile
Harnessing mobile devices to improve the physical world can lead to substantial gains — much bigger than those possible online.
Enterprise Architecture Plays a Key Role in IT Governance
How EA governance "bridges the gap" between business and IT.
Decide Now If You Will Become a Money-Making CIO
By mid-decade, CIOs will be evaluated and rewarded differently, assuming they successfully redefine their IT mission and themselves.

June 2011

Next Generation Online CRM Strategies
Develop an eCRM2 strategy for your industry.
Context Changes Everything: What CIOs Must Know
Context-aware computing is an emerging, game-changing opportunity for enterprises and CIOs in several industries. Gartner outlines how CIOs can formulate and set context-aware computing strategies in motion.
Understanding Your IT Maturity is Key to Business Success
Knowing what organizational capabilities to keep, enhance or shed in pursuit of enterprise objectives is daunting. Gartner has developed a comprehensive and adaptive tool to help.
What CIOs Can Learn From the World's Best Innovators
Innovation is not achieved through business-as-usual practices. In fact, it is precisely those practices that often kill innovation. Becoming a master innovator requires a high degree of commitment and some unusual business practices.

May 2011

Overview: Gartner's CEO and Board Survey Research, 2011
The mood of business leaders is now one of economic defiance: prioritizing growth, despite setbacks and volatility in the business environment. But CEOs' understanding of how technology will contribute to future growth seems muddled.
IT Outsourcing Trends: Tips to Shape Your Strategy
The outsourcing market is undergoing accelerated change as factors such as cloud computing and offshoring become more mainstream. This presentation examines what you can expect to see in the future as new offerings, pricing models and vendors take the stage.
The CIO's Role in Making the New Realities Real
While business executives kept their eyes on cost control in 2008 through 2010, more fundamental changes were under way in business and technology environments.
iPad and Beyond: The Media Tablet in Business
We'll get you up to speed on what is happening in a very fast-moving area, and give you insight on what your next move should be.
A CIO's Perspective on Open-Source Software
By 2016, OSS will be included in mission-critical software portfolios within 99% of Global 2000 enterprises — up from 75% in 2010. It is now largely untenable for IT organizations to create blanket 'no open source' edicts.

April 2011

Business and IT Governance Alignment to Drive Impact
IT is only one of the scarce resources required for enterprise change initiatives. This webinar will explore the emerging reorientation of IT governance to business change governance.
A Framework to Establish the Business Value of Sustainability
Sustainability creates business value across numerous dimensions of business and organizational performance. For some, the opportunities may change the whole business model.
The Evolution of Cloud Computing Into an Essential IT Strategy
Cloud computing is moving from a new idea to the next big strategy for optimizing how IT is used.
How Application Maintenance Teams Maximize Value for CIOs
CIOs will find that paying attention to application maintenance teams delivers good rewards through lower costs and targeted results.

March 2011

Business Intelligence and Decision Impact
Leading enterprises are establishing competency in BI so that all workers, managers and executives can take the most effective action in a given business situation.
CIO Strategies for Successful ERP Support
Enterprises seeking ways to improve the ERP/business application support organization should look beyond strategies aimed at a tactical reduction in support costs. They should focus on strategies that improve the support organization's ability to enable business improvements.
Seven CEO Concerns to Factor into Your 2011 Plan
With the increased reliance of business leaders on IT, it's important for CIOs to understand the concerns of CEOs and the implications these may have on IT agendas. We have formed a view of the most significant general CEO trends in 2010.
What CIOs Must Get Right to Reimagine IT for the Future?
Almost half of all CIOs expect to operate their applications and infrastructures via cloud technologies within the next five years. Join Gartner Executive Program GVP Mark McDonald as he explores the challenges CIOs and IT organizations will face over 2011.

February 2011

Run, Grow, Transform...What is Real IT Value?
Find out how leading IT organizations make the case that IT matters — and that it is worth paying for. Please join Research VP and Distinguished Analyst Richard Hunter as he review the steps you need to take to demonstrate value.
Leading CIOs Use EA Thinking to Drive Transformation
IT has become one of the most pervasive and critical elements of any business capability, including transformational change. CIOs should leverage the latest enterprise architecture techniques and perspectives to increase their chances of success.
Reimagining IT: The Gartner 2011 CIO Survey Says...
The Gartner 2011 CIO Survey reveals that almost half of all CIOs expect to operate their applications and infrastructures via cloud technologies within the next five years. This change will necessitate that CIOs reimagine IT and lead their organizations through a process of creative destruction.
Do You Have an Innovation Charter? Is it World Class?
An innovation initiative that operates without a charter risks being deemed a failure. What does "innovation" mean for your organization and how it will be successfully delivered? Understand what your Innovation Charter should contain and why you need one.

January 2011

CIO New Year's Resolutions 2011
Join Leading Gartner Analyst and Fellow Mark Raskino as he reviews the resolutions that will help leaders think about the new opportunities and challenges that are developing as economies, markets and communities rebuild, renew and retrench.
Is Your IT Strategy Integrated with Your Business Strategy?
We know it's not easy and often requires substantial resources as well as focus from the IT and business organizations. Check out Gartner's framework for strategic planning and how to effectively integrate IT and business strategy.

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