Research

We gathered expertise from IT professionals across 198 organizations to benchmark adoption stages and risk and value factors for 108 infrastructure and operations technologies for this year. The emerging technologies profiled are spread across six technology buckets: compute and storage, compute and storage (cloud), digital workplace, IT automation, network and security.

Technical professionals find architecture decisions to be increasingly difficult. A widening skills gap exacerbates the problem and can impede digital business transformation.

Many firms face challenges from Brexit, including those operating in the U.K., with U.K.-based operations, with supply chains exposed to U.K. or with trading partners from EU and elsewhere. Executive leaders must plan to continue operations as they navigate Brexit uncertainty.

Gartner’s annual top 10 Strategic Technology trends highlight trends that enterprises need to consider as part of their 5-year strategic technology planning process. These trends have a profound impact on people and the spaces they inhabit.

Gartner's annual top 10 Strategic Predictions examines how the human condition is being challenged as technology creates varied and ever-changing expectations of humans.

As new digital business practices foster rapid and continuous delivery across the organization, the PMO’s role must help clear the confusion of continuous change.

Blockchain introduces a new vector to accelerate the move to digital business. This allows enterprise architecture and technology and innovation leaders to create or represent assets in a digital context and to create a new, decentralized economic and societal model.

Use this guide in your planning for 2019 and in your presentations to your leadership, peers and teams.

As a new PMO leader, you have just 100 days to earn initial credibility through results, and to create a value-add perception of the PMO in your organization.