Gartner Business Quarterly

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Q3 2026

How to Work With AI Vendors

Executive leaders must navigate a more complicated, fast-moving, and high-stakes AI vendor environment than ever before. The Q3 2026 issue of GBQ will help you make smarter decisions that realize value and mitigate risks.

This edition provides actionable advice on how to:

Integrate optionality into generative AI vendor relationships
Control AI spending
Know when to use AI agents
Capitalize on rare SaaS buyer leverage caused by AI disruption
Make AI vendor governance a competitive advantage

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Gartner Business Quarterly provides executive leaders with insights from best practices research and the real-world experience of practitioners. The journal’s insights especially equip executives to tackle challenges that cut across the C-suite and affect multiple executive teams. Writers, contributors and data analysts are members of Gartner Business and Technology Insights, whose teams are led by Executive VP Yvonne Genovese. The Gartner Business Quarterly publication is led by Editor-in-Chief Richard Eames.

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