... Gartner First Takes Fresh insights on emerging trends On 30 April 2026, the president signed an executive order that significantly realigns federal contract preferences toward fixed-price-type contracts with limited exceptions. Government CIOs must now revisit and revise their contracting and operating ...
Analyst(s): Michael Berkholtz | Charity Hooper | William Maurer
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... millions of miles to collect real data, plus labeling it for training AI algorithms, are top challenges for the proliferation of autonomous vehicles, which are a key component of the AI race. Product leaders must leverage street-scene synthetic image data for validating and testing AVs. Overview Strategic Planning ...
... The gap between AI leaders and followers is widening. While leading marketing teams progress from AI competence to confidence, others fall into “competency traps” that impede their progress. CMOs should adopt three tactics from successful peers to accelerate their teams’ AI success and drive growth. ...
Analyst(s): Carlos Guerrero | Sharon Cantor Ceurvorst
... Access Insights Already a Gartner client? CSCOs are under pressure to deliver large-scale cost reductions amid a volatile business environment. To place the enterprise on a more sustainable cost trajectory, traditional cost optimization efforts must be combined with larger restructuring efforts. Why Th ...
... Retail marketing budgets increased as a share of company revenue, yet nearly half of retail CMOs don’t believe they have the budget necessary to execute their marketing strategy. Use this research to benchmark your investment plans against peers’ and identify potential strategic risks and opportunit ...
... Despite marketing budgets declining in banking and investment and insurance, CMOs are under growing pressure to support (and demonstrate) growth amid global volatility and disruption. Financial services CMOs can use these benchmarks to better contextualize their budget allocations across resources, ...
... Semiconductor revenue has a new growth trajectory. Gartner’s 2Q26 forecast shows demand broadening beyond accelerators and HBM toward networking, storage, power, analog and optical semiconductors. As AI infrastructure bottlenecks migrate from processing toward interconnect, power delivery and system ...
... Access Insights Already a Gartner client? As AI continues to change how buyers find and purchase technology, tech marketing teams need to boost their relevance in driving business outcomes. Product marketing and demand generation leaders must design adaptive teams that balance broad coverage with deep ...