Online Webinar – Recorded April 24th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Business leaders use megatrends to help shape business operations and guide decisions on portfolio investments, new market explorations, and business line viability. Plus, megatrends are sometimes used as input for a larger scenario planning exercise.

The identification, prioritization, and application of megatrends can help the organization and its leaders to identify the highest impact innovation opportunities by informing how the future will unfold, including major customer, technical, societal, and regulatory trends.

Research and development (R&D) leaders need to consider alternate strategic and product options when prioritizing investments for future learning and flexibility. Join this complimentary Gartner R&D webinar with  Atul Dighe (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP Advisory, to learn how R&D leaders can discover the most impactful innovation opportunities.

Discussion Topics:

• Establish a process to continually assess the impact of opportunities on your industry and organization
• Inform the organization of potential customer, technology, sociological, and regulatory shifts
• Decide which innovation opportunities to start, stop, or change levels of investment

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R&D Leaders, Use Megatrends To Inform Future Opportunities
In Your Organization

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 14th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Many CIOs struggle to effectiv

ely communicate the business value of their IT programs to business leaders. CIOs need to prioritize business outcomes over the number of IT systems managed or the amount of work done.

To maximize the impact of business value messaging, CIOs must leverage seven rules that help justify IT operating budgets, secure business funding for new projects, and show more strategic alignment to business priorities and objectives.

Join this Gartner IT leadership webinar as Robert Naegle (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP lays out the seven rules that will help CIOs build a more compelling and impactful narrative to communicate the business value of IT. You will walk away from this session with answers to your vital questions, a copy of the research slides, and recommended actions to help you achieve your goals.

Discussion Topics:

• Discover the 7 rules to create a more compelling business value of IT narrative
• Focus your value message to the people and things that matter
• Identify areas that hold back most IT value narratives

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7 Rules For CIOs To Effectively Communicate The Business Value Of IT

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Online Webinar – Recorded April 24th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Effective enterprise governance sets the framework of accountability for leadership to make decisions that define and deliver outcomes.

Hence, achieving business and IT alignment is crucial for executing and accomplishing business goals. CIOs need access to practical tools and techniques that enable them to make decisions that are strategically and operationally aligned with how technology is used across the enterprise, yet too often CIOs do not advance their initial government definitions and practices.

Join this complimentary Gartner IT governance webinar as Gartner experts Rémi Gulzar (LinkedIn profile)  Gartner Sr Director Analyst and Joanne Kopcho (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP explore the four interconnected questions CIOs must ask to diagnose if enterprise and I&T governance are performing optimally.

You will walk away from this session with answers to your vital questions, a copy of the research slides, and recommended actions to help you achieve your goals.

Discussion Topics:

• Resolve strategic disconnects within existing IT governance
• Realign operational attributes within existing IT governance and remediate failing governance
• Review common best practices and adjust IT governance as the organization changes

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Better Business Results, Ask These 4 IT Governance Questions

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Online Webinar – Recorded April 24th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Effective enterprise governance sets the framework of accountability for leadership to make decisions that define and deliver outcomes.

Hence, achieving business and IT alignment is crucial for executing and accomplishing business goals. CIOs need access to practical tools and techniques that enable them to make decisions that are strategically and operationally aligned with how technology is used across the enterprise, yet too often CIOs do not advance their initial government definitions and practices.

Join this Gartner IT governance webinar as Gartner experts Joanne Kopcho (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP & Rémi Gulzar (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst,; explore the four interconnected questions CIOs must ask to diagnose if enterprise and I&T governance are performing optimally.

You will walk away from this session with answers to your vital questions, a copy of the research slides, and recommended actions to help you achieve your goals.

Discussion Topics:

• Resolve strategic disconnects within existing IT governance
• Realign operational attributes within existing IT governance and remediate failing governance
• Review common best practices and adjust IT governance as the organization changes

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Better Business Results, Ask These 4 IT Governance Questions

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Online Webinar – Recorded February 05, 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Changing an organization’s culture is crucial for delivering on digital initiatives.

Many leaders struggle with what to do and how to do this effectively, whether within their own functional unit or across the enterprise.

In this leadership webinar Gartner expert Christie Struckman (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst  will share case studies of organizations that successfully drove culture change in their organizations, as well as common challenges and best practices.

Christie explores how you can follow these organizations’ success by using Gartner’s Five Steps for Culture Change model to accelerate the delivery and achievement of your business strategy.

Discussion Topics:

• Identify the steps necessary to make culture change happen
• Understand the biggest barriers for culture change and ways to overcome them
• Learn from organizations that are further along in their culture change journey

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5 Steps To Change the Culture Of Your Organization

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 12th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

In the fast-evolving landscape of corporate technology leadership, CIOs stand at the forefront of adapting to dynamic trends that shape strategic domains, including business growth and innovation, generative AI and talent acquisition. While the key themes remain constant, the specifics and priorities are constantly shifting.

What trends should you focus on in 2024? How does that impact your strategy and actions going forward? How are your peers adjusting?

Join this Gartner CIO leadership webinar as a panel of Gartner experts including; Michelle Bazargan (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst; & Mark Gilbert (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director, Advisory; who tackles the key trends that CIOs say they face in 2024.

Theywill dissect how these trends impact your planning and execution, and how similar challenges are being met by your CxO counterparts.

You will walk away from this session with answers to your vital questions, a copy of the research slides, and a defined plan of action for your strategic goals.

Discussion Topics:

• Track the trends that will most impact your CIO strategy throughout 2024
• Find out what trends most concern your peers as 2024 unfolds
• Discover how CIOs can drive reimagination over repetition of past performance

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Key CIO Priorities That Will Impact Strategic Planning In 2024

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