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Maverick* Research explores high-impact future scenarios that help our clients think differently to uncover opportunity and enable innovation. Our collection of research is intentionally disruptive and edgy to help you get ahead of the mainstream and take advantage of trends and insights that could impact your IT strategy and your organization.

Tom Austin, VP and Gartner Fellow, explains how Maverick* Research gives Gartner clients the opportunity to challenge their assumptions and consider questions they don't normally ask.

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Risk

Maverick* Research: Living in a World Without Trust: When IT's Supply Chain Integrity and Online Infrastructure Get Pwned

5 October 2012

Enterprise IT supply chains will be targeted and compromised, forcing changes in the structure of the IT marketplace and how IT will be managed moving forward.

Maverick* Research: Kill Off Security Controls to Reduce Risk

12 September 2012

Traditional security controls are increasingly ineffective and obstructive in a world where rapid technology change is driving business strategy. We need a radically new approach.

Vertical and Business Strategy

Maverick* Research: Banking on APIs and Apps, Not Applications

18 September 2012

The banking industry is in crisis. Transformation is needed, which current application portfolios prevent. A new model is emerging based on APIs and apps.

Maverick* Research: How Technology Is Ending the Automotive Industry's Century-Old Business Model

25 September 2012

The connected vehicle is leading the auto industry to the era of smart mobility. The shift to IT innovations will create radically new value propositions and potentially new leaders.

Maverick* Research: Walmart Will Reign When Corporations Become Nations

4 October 2012

This research examines why and how Walmart might declare itself a nation and what it could mean for citizens, governments, other businesses and Walmart itself.

People-Centered

Maverick* Research: The Future of Humans: Get Ready for Your Digitally, Chemically and Mechanically Enhanced Workforce

25 September 2012

Ready for a world where employee "bring your own" programs might include invisible digital augmentation, electrical brain stimulators, strength-enhancing exoskeletons and implants?

Maverick* Research: The Future of Talent; Stop Hiring People, Start Hiring Clusters

5 September 2012

Talent management challenges and the availability of virtual tools for small teams may mean that, in the future, businesses won't manage people, but will employ self-managed teams.

Maverick* Research: Capitalism Goes Social, or How Technology Will Enable the 99% to Change Your Business Forever

24 September 2012

Capitalism is undergoing major changes. CIOs and business leaders must understand how a new breed of social capitalists will exploit technology to disrupt their industry segments.

Maverick* Research: Socially Centered Leadership

21 September 2012

Employee engagement and trust are key to company success. We test the hypothesis that "socially centered leadership" will have a positive impact on this and organizational success.

Leveraging Information Assets

Maverick* Research: The Birth of Infonomics: The New Economics of Information

3 October 2012

Infonomics is the discipline of asserting economic significance to information. It provides the framework for businesses to value, manage and wield information as a real asset.

Maverick* Research: Content Value Optimization: Generating More Relevant Content at a Lower Cost

20 September 2012

In today's information economy, enterprises must deliver relevant content at a low cost. Content value optimization (CVO) is a feedback loop and discipline that makes that possible.

New Strategic Models and Opportunties

Maverick* Research: Radical Openness: Profiting From Data You Didn't Create, People You Don't Employ, and Ideas You Didn't Have

24 September 2012

Radical openness looks for opportunity regardless of where it originates, who participates and how it is ultimately delivered. Porous enterprise boundaries dramatically increase opportunities for innovation.

Maverick* Research: How Religion Will Drive Your Future Business

24 September 2012

Religion is positioned to fuel IT innovation and growth in emerging markets. The dynamic of IT and religion will create a new industry, generating software and service opportunities.

Operational Excellence

Maverick* Research: The Digital Designer Is the Linchpin in the Nexus of Forces

24 September 2012

The Nexus of Forces results in solutions for individuals, so quality interaction design can no longer be avoided. CEOs must now invest in digital design competencies.

Maverick* Research Toolkit: Avoid the Titanic Effect, Where the Pursuit of Excellence Results in Spectacular Disasters

28 September 2012

This Toolkit provides CIOs a discipline and framework to align with the organization's strategy and ensure strategic projects focus on the right areas at the right level of effort.

Maverick* Research: Employee Self-Service Is Self-Serving and Suboptimal

25 September 2012

Employee self-service portals are everywhere. They are being used without thinking. That is the problem. The common belief that such transactional self-service is efficient may be flawed.

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