... Technology buying is getting more complicated, and it doesn’t just happen in IT anymore. Executive leaders throughout the organization must navigate a gauntlet of vendors making promises, especially about AI and sustainability. Here’s how to avoid risks and keep expectations grounded in reality. Gartner ...
Analyst(s): Melanie Alexander | Bill Ryan | Stephen White | Yanni Karalis
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... CIOs must aggressively reinvent their approach to IT shared services to maximize innovation and the automation of business needs. Shared services that fail to keep pace with these changes risk fragmentation and will expose weaknesses in outdated CIO strategies. Insights at a Glance Issue Context Impact ...
... executive leaders target procedural changes as part of ZBB implementation, they risk their functions viewing it only as a new method for budgeting, rather than as a principle for making better spending decisions. ...
... Achieving sustainable IT requires improvements of two or more orders of magnitude in computational energy efficiency and consumption. This research describes how IT leaders need new technologies and practices to address the sustainability challenges of their applications. Overview What You Need to Know ...
... Cycle Builder is a tool that enables CIOs and IT leaders to build enterprise-specific technology roadmaps and situational analyses. The Tool provides the capability to search and filter all the innovation profiles and create custom Hype Cycles for business and IT initiatives. When to Use Directions for Use ...
Analyst(s): Frances Karamouzis | Jan-Martin Lowendahl | Felix Gaehtgens
... Infrastructure architects are often tasked to create cost models for chargeback or cloud migration. However, they struggle to ascertain existing on-premises data center costs. This document and its associated Microsoft Excel tool can jump-start cost modeling efforts. Overview Problem Statement The Gart ...
... Infrastructure platform engineering teams must coordinate disparate policy across on-premises domains to deliver consistent developer self-service experiences. This analysis shows how infrastructure architects can unify fragmented policy by using policy-as-code, internal developer platforms, agentic ...
... Infrastructure platform engineers can use agentic AI to reduce toil, lower mean time to recovery and accelerate feedback loops. By leveraging AI agents to handle repetitive tasks, engineers are instead free to focus on strategic innovation, thereby providing measurable gains in deployment quality, i ...
... The ERP strategic plan defines the initiatives and portfolio of investments required to execute the ERP strategic actions and enable the organization’s business outcomes. This toolkit provides a range of one-page templates for CIOs to summarize, visualize and communicate overviews of their strategic ...