Online Webinar  – Recorded April 18th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Technology and service providers (TSPs) should expect economic uncertainty to challenge their revenue growth goals.

Uncertainty, by definition, compromises routine strategies, rules of thumb, and assumptions. This can lead to confusion and delays in market signals, decision making, and action.

Despite these headwinds, overall IT spending increased in 2022 and will increase in 2023 – in every country and industry.

Unfortunately, this statement cannot be extended to every IT market Gartner tracks. Yet, there were TSPs that achieved breakaway growth in 2022.

In this webinar, John-David Lovelock, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst &Gartner expert Mark McDonald (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner  Vice President  will review the Global IT Spending Forecast, the CIOs’ reactions to inflation, the contextual change in digital transformation projects, and how this all affects IT markets – which are growing vs those that will retract in 2023.

Plus, they’ll review how you can use a Gartner framework to understand your exposure to and implications of uncertainty, so that you can be set up for growth in 2023 and beyond.

Discussion Topics:

• What Gartner forecasts for IT Spending growth in 2023 and beyond
• Understand which markets are positively and negatively impacted by the current uncertainties
• Gain insight from the companies that generated breakaway growth in 2022

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Gartner IT Spending Forecast, 1Q23 Update:
Uncertainty Has Upset Business As Usual

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Online Webinar – Recorded April 25th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Midsize enterprise (MSE) IT leaders face significant security challenges when trying to deliver IT services with small IT teams and limited IT budgets. Across industries, MSE IT budgets average 4.9% of annual revenue, but only 5% of the IT budget is dedicated to security.

The need to create a strong, mature security posture remains.

Join this Gartner security and risk webinar as Gartner expert Paul Furtado, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst explores the top trends that MSE IT leaders responsible for security and risk management should prioritize to stay current and proactive in protecting the organization and effectively managing risk.

Discussion Topics:

• Explore midsize enterprise trends and the changing cybersecurity landscape
• Identify key elements of a strong and defensible cybersecurity program
• Determine the impact of AI and ransomware on security

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The Gartner Cybersecurity Outlook For Midsize Enterprises

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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

Return to the web page to watch both the live and on-demand webinar.

Click to register for:
Better Business Results, Ask These 4 IT Governance Questions

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