Analyst Profile

Bill Swanton

Distinguished VP Analyst

24 years at Gartner , 41 years industry experience
Boston, MA USA

Roles and Responsibilities

Bill Swanton covers application strategy and the business value of IT, including IT benefit realization techniques used by Fortune 1000 companies to expand the value they receive from their application investments. Recent areas of focus have been the digital business technology platform, enterprise agile governance and budgeting, product management of applications, and pace-layered application strategy.

Bill Swanton's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Decommissioning Applications: The Emerging Role of the Application Undertaker
18-Sep-2019
Flattening the Application Organization — Everyone Must Be Part of the Agile Value Stream
11-Sep-2019
6 Common Reporting Relationships for Digital Business
29-Aug-2019

On-Demand & Upcoming Webinars

Build Support for Moving From Projects to Products and Agile
23 January 2019
The Shift to Product Management - Gartner Answers Your Questions
22 May 2019

Upcoming Gartner Events

Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo
20 October 2019 - 24 October 2019
Gartner Application Strategies & Solutions Summit
03 December 2019 - 05 December 2019

Background

Previous Experience

Mr. Swanton came to Gartner through the AMR Research acquisition with a specific focus on how brand owners, contract manufacturers and other suppliers use ERP and other enterprise software to manage global demand-driven supply networks (DDSNs). He also launched AMR Research's product life cycle management (PLM) coverage in 1997. He held numerous product marketing and IT positions and gained experience within the manufacturing software, controls, and automation system markets. He worked in the manufacturing systems division of Kronos. He also worked for ITP Group and its MainStream subsidiary in various consulting and product marketing roles. He began his career at the C.S. Draper Laboratory as a system engineer and software development team leader.

Professional Background

C.S. Draper Laboratory, Member of Technical Staff, 3 years
Kronos, Industry Marketing Manager, 3 years
MainStream Software/ITP Boston, Director of Product Marketing, 10 years

Education

B.S., Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M.S., Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Languages

English

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21 October 2019
Virtual Briefing: Drive Marketing Cost Optimization EDT: 10:00 a.m. | PDT: 7:00 a.m. | BST: 15:00
Marketers face an unprecedented collision of environmental factors, including business transformation, economic uncertainty and employee power. As a result, budget planning gets more complex and difficult. If we can defer difficult decisions about cost and budget management, we will. It’s time to stop deferring and start embracing marketing cost optimization. Join us for this exclusive, invitation-only, video virtual briefing, as Gartner expert Ewan McIntyre looks at how you can effectively build a marketing strategy that addresses the certainties of today and the uncertainties of tomorrow.

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21 October 2019
*CANCELLED* Beyond AI: The Competencies That Drive Digital Transformation EDT: 11:00 a.m. | PDT: 8:00 a.m. | BST: 16:00
HR executives focus heavily on winning the war for tech talent in an effort to accelerate digital transformation. However, you need to think beyond just AI as a technology. You have to consider the skill combination to win and get the most out of AI. The actual talent war winners are companies who invest in building digital dexterity competencies that allow them to seize on emerging capabilities by transforming old business models and creating new ones. In this complimentary TalentNeuron webinar, Gartner expert Scott Engler shares how to envision your workforce differently, including the competency profile that sets winning companies apart, successful strategies you can use to build them within your organization, and the market landscape for these skills.

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Analyst Profile

Bill Swanton

Distinguished VP Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities

Bill Swanton's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

On-Demand & Upcoming Webinars

Upcoming Gartner Events

Background

Previous Experience

Professional Background

Education

Languages

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