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IT strategies for many CIOs in 2011 aim to redefine the essential elements of IT — from infrastructure and cost structure, to people and processes. These strategies are intimately connected with business strategies, with a focus on creating infrastructure while streamlining costs and operations.

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Reimagining IT: The 2011 CIO Agenda

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 and other changes will necessitate that CIOs reimagine IT and lead their organizations through a process of creative destruction.

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Real IT Value

IT professionals have long struggled to describe and justify IT's value to skeptical managements. This webinar, based on case studies drawn from his bestselling Harvard Business Press book "The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value", VP and Gartner Fellow Richard Hunter shows how leading IT organizations make the case that IT matters — and that it is worth paying for.

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  • CIO Leadership Forum

  • 5-7 March, 2012 | London, UK
  • Gartner CIO Leadership Forum offers an interactive, workshop-centric experience to exchange ideas and receive actionable guidance from prominent CIOs, Gartner experts and senior executives from leading technology providers. This executive-only program focuses on helping to turn your insights into actionable results.

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  • CIO Leadership Forum

  • 25-27 March, 2012 | Scottsdale, AZ
  • Gartner CIO Leadership Forum is an executive-only program, designed to explore critical business, technology and leadership strategies. With attendance limited to a select group of CIOs from major corporations and public sector enterprises, the emphasis will be on small-group discussion and debate, private consultations with analysts, and special keynotes. No lengthy presentations. No minutiae.

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  • CIO Leadership Forum

  • 25-27 March 2012 | Scottsdale, AZ
  • CIOs will discover how to translate strategic direction into actionable results, achieve the innovation required for competitive business advantage, and lead an organization's transformation of its IT capabilities.
  • Gartner Symposium/ITxpo

  • 21-25 October 2012 | Orlando, FL
  • Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the industry's largest and most important annual gathering of CIOs and their senior IT leaders. It delivers independent and objective content with the authority and weight of the world's leading IT research and advisory organization.
  • CIO Leadership Forum Middle East

  • 27-28 February 2012 | Dubai, UAE
  • Gartner CIO Leadership Forum is an executive-only program for exploring critical business, technology and leadership strategies. CIOs will discover how to translate strategic direction into actionable results, achieve the innovation required for competitive business advantage.
  • CIO Leadership Forum

  • 5-7 March 2012 | London, UK
  • Gartner CIO Leadership Forum is an executive-only program for exploring critical business, technology and leadership strategies. CIOs will discover how to translate strategic direction into actionable results, achieve the innovation required for competitive business advantage, and lead an organization's transformation of its IT capabilities.
  • Gartner Symposium/ITxpo

  • 5-8 November 2012 | Barcelona, Spain
  • Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the industry's largest and most important annual gathering of CIOs and their senior IT leaders. It delivers independent and objective content with the authority and weight of the world's leading IT research and advisory organization.
  • Gartner Symposium/ITxpo

  • 3-5 October 2011 | Tokyo, Japan
  • Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the industry's largest and most important annual gathering of CIOs and senior IT leaders. It delivers independent and objective content with the authority and weight of the world's leading IT research and advisory organization.
  • Gartner Symposium/ITxpo

  • 12-15 November 2012 | Gold Coast, Australia
  • In more than 150 sessions, workshops, how-to clinics, roundtables and more, Gartner analysts cut through the hype to deliver what you need to know — from breakthrough approaches to delivering business value through IT to the strategic implications of fast-evolving technologies and industry trends.
  • Gartner Symposium/ITxpo

  • 10-12 October 2012 | Goa, India
  • Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the industry's only event to deliver the insights, tools and relationships necessary to create, validate and execute transformative business technology strategies. The agenda is unparalleled in its breadth, depth and scope, with a laser-like focus on everything that matters in IT.
  • Gartner Symposium/ITxpo

  • 25-27 October 2011 | Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the industry's only event to deliver the insights, tools and relationships necessary to create, validate and execute transformative business technology strategies. The agenda is unparalleled in its breadth, depth and scope, with a laser-like focus on everything that matters in IT.

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