Analyst Profile

Suzanne Adnams

VP Analyst

8 years at Gartner , 38 years industry experience
AZ USA

Roles and Responsibilities

Suzanne Adnams is a Vice President, Analyst with CIO Research, working on the Leadership, Culture and People team. Ms. Adnams provides research, insights, advice and support for IT executives related to developing leadership skills, change leadership and working with teams and understanding culture. This extends to increasing awareness of elements that shape and change culture and addressing diversity and inclusion challenges. In her previous role with CIO Research, she focused on strategic IT services and helping CIOs connect IT operational management to strategic business value.

Suzanne Adnams's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Five Tactics for CIOs to Ease the Pain of Leadership Transition
04-Oct-2018
Toolkit: 3 Actions CIOs Can Use to Shape Organizational Culture
01-Oct-2019
From Push to Passion: Using Inspiration as a Management Approach
21-Aug-2019

Upcoming Gartner Events

Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo
27 October 2019 - 29 October 2019
Gartner Application Strategies & Solutions Summit
03 December 2019 - 05 December 2019

Background

Previous Experience

Prior to joining CIO Research, Ms. Adnams was an Executive Partner with Gartner Executive Programs. She worked with CIOs in Western Canada, providing executive-level advice, guidance, counsel, direction and assistance to support the CIO role and helping members use Gartner resources to succeed in their organizations. She has been working in IT since 1980, and she had more than 20 years of experience in IT management and executive roles in government and higher education before becoming a Principal Consultant. In that role, she worked with clients on IT strategy and planning, best practices, organizational design and change management, with a focus on governance, IT service management and project management.

Professional Background

Government of Manitoba - Education Ministries, IT Director (2 Years); Manager Schools Information System (5 Years), 7 years
Grant MacEwan University, Chief Information Technology Officer, 2 years
Online Business Systems, Principal Consultant, 6 years

Industry Awards/Accolades

CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT)
COBIT
ITIL
MOR (Management of Risk)
PRINCE2 Practitioner
PROSCI Practitioner (Organizational Change Management)

Education

B.Sc., Social Sciences, University of Toronto
M.A., Work, Organization & Leadership, Athabasca University
Master's Certificate in Project Management, University of Winnipeg/York University

Languages

English

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4 October 2018
Top 25 North American Supply Chain Undergraduate University Programs, 2018 As supply chain skills profiles require more analytics and technology content, a re-evaluation of supply chain university partnerships is a must. Supply chain leaders can use these rankings to identify the university programs that are best equipped to help recruit and hire the right talent.
13 September 2018
Consumer Products Supply Chainnovators 2018: Brightstar Wins by Bringing the Circular Economy Into the World of Mobile Phones This Chainnovators award recognizes innovative and high-impact initiatives to transform the supply chain. Through a case study of Brightstar's winning circular economy initiative, supply chain leaders can use this research to inspire, transform and elevate their own organization.

17 October 2019
Before It’s Too Late: Drive Action on Emerging Risks EDT: 10:00 a.m. | PDT: 7:00 a.m. | BST: 15:00
The increasing pace of seismic changes in the business environment, including new and emerging technologies, digital business transformation, and regulatory and trade volatility, erodes executives’ confidence and prevents them from taking proactive steps to avoid major disruption. Enterprise risk management (ERM) is tasked with producing insight on these emerging threats, but tends to provide high-level information with unclear business implications which executives are unable to act upon. In this complimentary webinar, find out how to keep pace with these major changes and the proactive steps you must take now.

Return to this web page to watch the webinar live and on-demand. Questions about registering or watching? Email us: gartnerwebinars@gartner.com
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.

Questions about viewing this virtual briefing? Email us: gartnerwebinars@gartner.com

Analyst Profile

Suzanne Adnams

VP Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities

Suzanne Adnams's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Upcoming Gartner Events

Background

Previous Experience

Professional Background

Industry Awards/Accolades

Education

Languages

Manage Finance Talent Supply & Demand

Creating a Culture That Performs

Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018

Managing R&D Portfolios

Speed Up Legal Reviews

Should You Build or Buy a Customer Data Platform?

Gartner Predictions for the Future of Supply Chain Operations in 2018

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