Gartner This Week
CIO PRIORITIES
- 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!
INNOVATION
- PaaS 2012: Tactical Risks and Strategic Rewards
- Despite its promising future, the PaaS market remains immature and volatile. Some emerging vendors are pursuing defensive strategies; others continue to promote proprietary solutions, and many see PaaS as simply a new deployment model for old workloads.
INITIATIVES
- Understanding the 8 Critical Capabilities of Enterprise Architecture Tools
- Selecting the right EA tool requires an understanding of how these eight capabilities meet the needs of the organization: repository/metamodel, modeling, decision analysis, presentation, administration, configurability, frameworks and standards, and usability.
GARTNER LIVE
- Gartner CIO Leadership Forums 2012
- The Gartner CIO Leadership Forum is an executive-only program, designed to explore critical business, technology and leadership strategies. The emphasis will be on small-group discussion and debate, private consultations with analysts, and special keynotes.
IT METRICS
- Application Project Timeliness and Budget Metrics
- With 57% of application development projects completed on-time, and 67% of projects delivered On-budget many IT organizations attribute their inability to meet project schedule to poor initial scope, project scope creep and resource constraints.
VENDOR INSIGHTS
- The Goal of Vendor Management Should go Far Beyond Just Managing Costs
- Vendor management is more than getting a better price; it's about getting more value. Vendor management may be viewed as an extension or replacement for purchasing or procurement if viewed only through the narrow lens of cost reduction.
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