Analyst Profile

David Groombridge

Research Director

3 years at Gartner , 22 years industry experience
United Kingdom

Roles and Responsibilities

David Groombridge is a Research Director in Gartner Research, where he undertakes analysis on all phases of the IT sourcing cycle, with a particular focus on best practices in the sourcing of hybrid infrastructure services. Mr. Groombridge helps clients solve strategic sourcing issues, as well as developing research to support clients with practical advice on this evolving space. He provides guidance for clients on vendor selection, contract pricing, structure and terms, and commercial negotiations.

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Blockchain Potential and Pitfalls
17 July 2018

Background

Previous Experience

Mr. Groombridge has 20 years of experience in the IT industry, and prior to joining Gartner, he reported to the CIO of Eversheds, a global law firm. In this role, he managed a number of strategic vendor relationships, led the successful negotiation of the firm's largest outsourcing deal, and managed the implementation of multiple data center outsourcing, BPO and SaaS initiatives, and also won the firmwide innovation award in 2011. Prior to his time at Eversheds, Mr. Groombridge held a range of IT program and product manager roles, spanning the insurance, financial services and enterprise software industries.

Professional Background

Eversheds, Head of Business Systems, 8 years
Legal & General, Program Manager, 4 years
Misys, Product Center Manager, 4 years

Industry Awards/Accolades

Won Eversheds' 2011 firmwide innovation award

Education

B.Sc., with honors, Open University
M.A., with honors, King's College, University of Cambridge

Languages

English

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30 May 2018
Creating a Sustainable Strategy for Sourcing at Midsize Enterprises CIOs of midsize enterprises lack dedicated sourcing, procurement and relationship management resources. To remedy this, they must implement a pragmatic sourcing strategy that aligns with business goals, achieves the desired outcome of decisions, and leads to an understanding of the marketplace.
24 May 2018
The Resilience Premium of Digital Business: A Gartner Trend Insight Report Committing to resilience will equip your digital business with the mindset, resources and planning to recover from inevitable disruptions. Security and risk management leaders must deliver by building a culture of systemic resilience through viewing resilience as a premium and not as a cost.

25 Jun 2018
Overcome IT Cost Optimization Challenges EDT: 10:00 a.m. | PDT: 7:00 a.m. | BST: 15:00 It's now more critical than ever to understand enterprise technology spend in order to effectively optimize both cost and value. This webinar focuses on the challenges and Gartner Top 10 Recommended Cost Optimization Ideas to help you optimize cost to prepare for the future. Learn how to implement a cost optimization program to evaluate these and other cost optimization ideas in order to pick the right ones for your organization.
26 Jun 2018
Create a Roadmap to Architect a Digital Business Technology Platform EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | BST: 14:00 A digital business technology platform is built, not bought. This webinar reviews the Gartner strategic roadmap to architect a digital business platform. This insight will help you modernize your application infrastructure by implementing a multi-grained mesh app and service architecture (MASA) while pairing it with a pervasive, enterprise-wide integration competency.