Online Webinar – Recorded November 8th 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Planning to make a big technology purchase soon? How confident are you that it will be successful? A critical technology purchase can be a time-consuming, complicated process with challenges like competing priorities, lack of consensus, over-zealous vendors and limited unbiased information — that’s where BuySmart can help.

Backed by actionable, objective insight from Gartner, BuySmart helps you save time, collaborate effectively, and streamline the entire purchasing process, from vendor exploration to sealing the deal.

With technology templates that empower you to manage priorities and requirements, and vendor evaluations that help you shortlist your choices, BuySmart gives you the guidance and tools you need to invest confidently.

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Gartner BuySmart™ Demo

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Online Webinar – Recorded January 17th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Most organizations today use cloud computing, which continues to generate hype as well as technology innovations and trends.

Infrastructure and operations leaders must treat the hype about cloud computing pragmatically, as innovations emerge and cloud use becomes ubiquitous.

Despite the broad and mainstream use of cloud computing, hype surrounding the benefits and limitations of cloud persists. Most organizations use cloud computing and are increasing investments in new cloud-based initiatives.

In this IT webinar, David Mitchell Smith, VP & Gartner Fellow (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) provides context for much of the cloud hype and reality today, and offers guidance on how IT leaders can best leverage cloud.

Discussion Topics:

• Find out why cloud computing continues to generate so much hype
• Determine the status of cloud and cloud-related technologies
• Discover how to best take advantage of cloud computing

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Gartner Hype Cycle For Cloud Computing: Maximize The Value

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Online Webinar – Recorded Recorded January 17th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Product management at technology providers serves as the hub around which business success spins. As new technologies like generative AI emerge, fresh decision-making approaches develop, and organizational barriers increase, product leaders must adapt to deliver value to their customers.

The 2024 Gartner Leadership Vision for Product Management Leaders offers guidance on how product managers can prepare for three critical priorities in the coming year.

Join Clifton Gilley (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst & Chris Meering (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst; in this Gartner webinar as they delve into strategies for product managers to assess customer value when incorporating generative AI into their products, and how to harness genAI tools for increased efficiency within product teams.

You’ll also explore techniques to improve commitment from stakeholders and foster decision-making driven by storytelling. Plus, gain insights into identifying and addressing organizational barriers that often hinder product management teams from dedicating time to critical functions like discovery, validation, and strategic planning.

Discussion Topics:

• Evaluate genAI’s impact on product value and team efficiency
• Enhance stakeholder commitment through storytelling-driven decision-making
• Overcome organizational barriers for strategic product management

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Gartner 2024 Leadership Vision For Product Management Leaders

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Online Webinar – Recorded November 22 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

AI has drastically transformed industries such as healthcare, finance, transportation, and entertainment, leading to improved efficiency, accuracy, and convenience.

Generative AI (GenAI) will be the next wave of change washing over every industry, including technology and service providers (TSPs). GenAI will surely change everything, except some areas where it doesn’t change anything.

With any new hyped technology, there will be spurious spending by business leaders and special projects.

However, boards and CEOs are being cautious with their spending. CIOs are expected to create a long-term strategy, plan for, and implement GenAI within the scope of the IT budget.

Join this Gartner panel  which explores how and where GenAI is changing IT spending amounts, and how GenAI will change the IT services market.

Discussion Topics:

• Explore forecasts for IT spending growth in 2023 and beyond
• How and where GenAI is changing IT spending amounts and mixes
• Get new and emerging use cases for GenAI

Presenters:  

• John-David Lovelock, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst, Chief Forecaster
• Chrissy Healey  (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst,
• Errol Rasit (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Managing Vice President
• Alys Woodward (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst

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IT Spending Forecast: The Impact Of GenAI

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Online Webinar – Recorded November 30th 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

During economic and social volatility, organizations achieve success through sustainable efficiency.

Organizations must determine how to make the best possible use of new technology developments that could cause significant disruption over the next three years, such as generative AI, and embrace the connected workforce nature while remaining resilient.

Join this webinar as Bart Willemsen (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst; reveals the Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2024 and how CIOs and IT leaders can use them to ensure future success.

Discussion Topics:

• Prioritize sustainable technology trends, aligning practical cybersecurity with business value
• Invest in technology that fits specialist workers and AI-powered software development.
• Incorporate machine customers, augmentation, and AI-powered intelligence in training and work

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Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends For 2024

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Online Webinar – Recorded November 3oth 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Get inspired to innovate, as we explore case studies on how your leading-edge peers applied transformative strategies and technologies to achieve tangible outcomes for health, efficiency and cost.

Discover how leading healthcare and life sciences organizations turned technologies such as generative AI, total experience, hyper-automation, advanced data and analytics and machine learning to their advantage.

Join this webinar as Gartner experts Mandi Bishop (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst & and Animesh Gandhi  (LinkedIn profile) unveil the finalists and winners of the Gartner 2023 Eye on Innovation Awards in Healthcare and Life Sciences.

Discussion Topics:

• Find out how to seize opportunity in disruption
• Determine strategic technology investments that pay off in the real world
• Discover organizational and cultural adjustments that make innovation work

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Leading-Edge Healthcare & Life Sciences Innovations That Drive Results

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