Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM EET
Registration and information hours for the day.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM EET
Daniel Sanchez Reina, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
CIOs often feel as though they are playing defense and not getting ahead of the game. A CIO may feel they are under unfair political attack, or simply spending too much time in a reactive mode. This can impact a CIO’s brand and strategic positioning in their enterprise, and in the marketplace. This session focuses on practical techniques to help CIOs diplomatically shift from defense to offence, without becoming “offensive”.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 09:45 AM - 10:15 AM EET
Join us for refreshments in a brief break between sessions.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EET
Joanne Kopcho, VP Analyst, Gartner
In the haste to transform to digital products, many organizations hurry to ‘make up’ new roles and planning concepts without involving the existing functions or thinking through all of the needed governance and orchestration. Here we identify four common pitfalls emerging and how to leverage both existing and new roles and expertise to help avoid these problems.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EET
Tsuneo Fujiwara, VP Analyst, Gartner
Digital maturity has reached a tipping point, however CIOs are facing hard and soft barriers in leading innovation and digital business transformation. This session introduces the seven leadership skills CIOs must acquire to succeed and offers practical guidance on how to lead innovation and digital business transformation.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM EET
Peter Norris, Executive Partner, Gartner
Digital business transformation requires people change throughout the enterprise, not just in IT. Digital workplace programs are essential to build a workplace to attract talent, cultivate employees’ digital dexterity and help ensure enterprises get the best return from their investments in end-user technologies. In this lightly moderated roundtable, CIOs will share experience around the most effective actions to drive a digital workplace program.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM EET
Sanil Solanki, Managing Vice President, Gartner
This session will explore Gartner's Cost Management model and discuss how evolving IT cost management efforts to focus on "Value Optimization" over cost optimization will reduce (and even eliminate) reactive calls to cut IT costs. This session will provide a model and tactics to elevate the maturity of IT to focus on value over costs.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM EET
Noah Rosenstein, Principal Analyst, Gartner
Adaptive strategy is key to navigating the rapidly changing and uncertain world. Leading enterprises are responding by adopting an adaptive strategy approach, which enables them to respond quickly to new threats and opportunities. This session will explore a series of case studies from organizations that are already using adaptive strategy to succeed in a volatile world.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EET
Vernon Thaver, Executive Partner, Gartner
Intrapreneurship (entrepreneurship within organisations) is much more than a trendy buzzword. The CIO should understand and appreciate its unique added value to a truly successful work culture driving meaningful changes and lasting growth. This roundtable will explore and examine the current climate of corporate entrepreneurship and innovation in Africa. We will discuss what is intrapreneurship, how to measure corporate entrepreneurial intensity (EO) (Karatko, et al) as well as what are some of the "cultural hacks" to improve EO in the African context.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM EET
Join other attendees for lunch and take advantage of the opportunity to network and catch up on the day's activities so far.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM EET
Daniel Sanchez Reina, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Engagement is the holy grail in organizations. Constant learning is a must in this fast-forward era, but it may seem threatening, boring or exhausting to your team members. There is a way to make them enjoy their learning process while increasing their level of engagement.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM EET
Joanne Kopcho, VP Analyst, Gartner
An Ask the Expert session on organizational design. During this session, we'll address questions such as: What are the key to successful organizational design? What is the BEST IT organizational design? What should a CIO be mindful of when designing an organization? Please note: this session is targeted for CIOs with more than approximately 50 people in IT.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM EET
Tsuneo Fujiwara, VP Analyst, Gartner
"Fail-fast" may work in Silicon Valley, but what if you are trying to innovate with no time or budget, and everyone around you is afraid of failure? This presentation provides a practical roadmap for progress, beginning with low-cost, low-risk innovation activities that deliver real value, and continuing on to strategies to reshape your environment into a more open, supportive and innovation-friendly culture.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM EET
Join us for refreshments in a brief break between sessions.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM EET
Sanil Solanki, Managing Vice President, Gartner
Customer economics and operating leverage are the essential metrics of digital business opportunity, and there are a limited number of fundamental monetization models. CIOs that master these fundamentals and apply them to their organization and markets can deliver transformational growth. Follow in the footsteps of successful digital businesses to find your path to success.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM EET
Noah Rosenstein, Principal Analyst, Gartner
Strategy is critical to succeed in digital business, but most organizations are not very effective at creating it. CIOs can overcome their most common challenges and frustrations with strategy by mastering a few essential best practices. This session will give CIOs a crash course on the strategy fundamentals they need to effectively contribute to their organization’s digital business success.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM EET
Lorraine Sefolo, VP, Team Manager, Gartner
Digital disruption of industries should cause boards of directors to infuse more technology wisdom into their ranks, but our research shows it’s lacking. CIOs can change that.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 03:30 PM - 04:15 PM EET
Rapelang Rabana, Entrepreneur,
We are living in times of rapidly evolving technologies, business models, demographics and workplace cultures that bring about a quantum of change that will deeply challenge business leaders. While the majority of businesses have a digital strategy, how will they execute it, if only a fraction of businesses have the depth of skills and IT staff turnover has breached 20%? At the same time, are traditional organizational structures aligned to serve the real customer, to enable the business to BE agile and responsive instead of just DOING agile projects? Rapelang brings her perspective as a digital native and technology entrepreneur on the kind of business leadership today’s challenges demand in order to build and expand digital businesses.
Monday, 09 March, 2020 / 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM EET
Join us for an opportunity to network with your peers.
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 08:30 AM - 03:00 PM EET
Registration and information hours for the day.
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM EET
Joanne Kopcho, VP Analyst, Gartner
CIOs and their enterprises are challenged balancing the control and performance by failing IT governance. Weak leadership, no transparency of decision making and misaligned governance mechanisms are at the heart of symptoms indicative of IT governance gone bad. This session will address how CIOs can recognize the symptoms and apply their influence and insights to guide their enterprises toward good IT governance.
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM EET
Daniel Sanchez Reina, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Your digital strategy requires that the culture of your organization, if not the entire company, changes. But the myths of culture change can hold back progress. Grasp the realities of changing culture to lead true change in your organization. Changing culture is possible!
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM EET
Ridwaan Bardien, Executive Partner, Gartner
Public Sector CIOs struggle when leading the change initiatives. Some change obstacles are persistent and need to be managed/removed to ensure progress. Other obstacles can be converted into change accelerators. To be able to lead change, CIOs must learn to negotiate obstacles while protecting the institutions those obstacles were intended to preserve. The session will unpack the challenges and discuss potential solutions.
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM EET
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM EET
Join us for refreshments in a brief break between sessions.
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM EET
Sanil Solanki, Managing Vice President, Gartner
Product management is becoming an enterprise-level operating principle but moving to product line funding is often a challenge. Join this session to learn the key steps in the journey, from making the case to running a well-planned pilot to create the capability and comfort with shifting from project to product funding. We will share examples of companies who have successfully adopted a new funding model.
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM EET
Tsuneo Fujiwara, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session helps enterprises discover new ways to innovate their business models in the digital era. It uses Gartner frameworks and approaches to develop ideas to improve the current business model or to pursue new models. It is industry independent and can be applied to almost any organization. The result formulates the basis for organizing and executing innovation.
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM EET
Tumi Ramonotsi, Executive Partner, Gartner
Accelerate your leadership impact and alignment of IT initiatives with strategic goals by adopting proven approaches on communicating the business value of IT to your executive team.
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM EET
Join other attendees for lunch and take advantage of the opportunity to network and catch up on the day's activities so far.
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 01:00 PM - 01:45 PM EET
Joanne Kopcho, VP Analyst, Gartner
CIOs restructure their organization for many reasons, but not always for the right ones. Despite understanding that restructuring is one of the most disruptive activities for the organizational members, CIOs still start with a reorganization hoping for a better outcome. This session will dispel the myths and share the realities for why and when restructuring is the right strategy. It is not as often as we think.
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 01:00 PM - 01:45 PM EET
There are turns coming – in society, in economic conditions, in changed technological adoption, in business model innovation. What steps are you and your leadership teams taking to prepare your organization? Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 01:00 PM - 01:45 PM EET
Join this Meetup to share best practices for an effective and concise approach to presenting digital transformation to the board. What does the board want to know? What do you want them to do? Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 01:00 PM - 01:45 PM EET
What language or techniques have you used to catalyze change in your organization, especially at the leadership level? What advice do you have for dealing with leadership that doesn’t understand IT methodology? Are there novel ways to get the business to change their thinking? Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 01:45 PM - 02:15 PM EET
Join us for refreshments in a brief break between sessions.
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 / 02:15 PM - 03:00 PM EET
Daniel Sanchez Reina, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Culture has become a scapegoat for not achieving digital ambitions. CIOs and IT leaders must stop blaming culture, recognizing that their own biases are clouding their understanding of what is truly holding the organization back. Remedy yourself to break through the real barriers.