Online Webinar – Recorded August 23rd 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Business optimization efforts demand continuous, proactive IT engagement and business acumen in order to better understand and deliver business outcomes.

As trusted service and product providers, CIOs often have to balance divergent and contradictory roles to successfully deliver value to their internal customers.

As a result, CIOs must run IT like a service provider business in order to deliver differentiating technology capabilities that optimize business performance.

They need to deliver quality products and services at competitive prices to remain viable, all while seeking ways to enhance product and service offerings to improve customer outcomes and satisfaction.

In this webinar, Monika Sinha (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst r explores how IT organizations can think and act in terms of business value and outcomes to support technology-driven enterprise transformation efforts.

Discussion Topics:

• Establish a business office to run IT as a valued business service partner
• Shift from a project-aligned to service-/product-aligned delivery structure
• Proactively identify new and innovative services that address emerging opportunities

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Drive IT Operations Business Value With A Service Provider Mindset

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Online Webinar – Recorded September 21st 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

IT organizational design is a perennial topic for CIOs. While IT organizational design is only one of the nine components of the IT operating model, it is the most visible artifact. CIOs must view organizational design as part of the I&T operating model design that matches business strategy.

Join Tomas Nielsen (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Senior Director Analyst & Donna Scott (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst as they provide practical guidance on how to think about IT organizational design and gain examples of tips, tricks and pitfalls.

Discussion Topics:

• Find out why CIOs see organizational design as part of the I&T operating model
• Determine how CIOs should organize IT when pursuing a transformational I&T operating model
• Hear questions CIOs frequently ask Gartner about organizational design

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IT Org Design: A Practical Approach

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Live Webinar February 21sth, 2023 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Strategic thinking is having the ability to advance the interests of the organization by managing issues that have broad and long-term impact.

In this interactive webinar, Lisa will talk about strategy development and implementation practices by guiding participants on ways to think strategically and how to translate strategy to reality.

• What is Strategic Thinking
• How to Think Strategically
• Communicating the Strategy Story
• How to Translate the Story into Results

Presenter: Lisa DiTullio (LinkedIn profile), International Speaker in Project Management and Impactful Storyteller consultant / trainer for The Corporate Education Group (CEG), has 25+ years’ experience in establishing PMO and portfolio management models and is dedicated to introducing project management as a business competency and enabling organizations to improve decision making, instill accountability, and enhance communications. Lisa served as VP, Portfolio and Program Management for Foundation Medicine and director of the PMO at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. She is an author and regular contributor to industry blogs and various podcasts, a PMI® PMTrainingTM instructor, and a contributor to Project Bites. A recognized international speaker in project management, she is known for her storytelling to impart messages that are impactful and practical.

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How tTo Think Strategically & Deliver Results

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Online Webinar –  Recorded August 4th 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Rapid change increases pressure on cybersecurity leaders and their teams.

Cybersecurity leaders must evolve their practices to develop and optimize a cybersecurity program that enables value creation in a rapidly changing world. But how will cybersecurity leaders define the functional and technological requirements for sustaining and growing value in an increasingly decentralized environment with evolving decision rights?

In this security and risk webinar Patrick Hevesi (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Vp Analyst breaks down the Gartner Outlook for Cloud Security 2023 to give you the latest on cloud security, strategy, and architecture.

Patrick will help you make sense of cloud security’s acronym soup, including CASB, SSE, CNAPP, CWPP and CSPM.

Discussion Topics:

• Explore the latest trends in cloud security
• Build a unified cloud security strategy and architecture
• Understand the complex vendor landscape

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Outlook For Cloud Security For 2023 & Beyond

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Online Webinar – Recorded October 25 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Each year, HR leaders and their teams must create new strategies to ensure their organisations can meet current and future business needs. In this free webinar, Gartner expert Neal Woolrich (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Director Advisory looks at the HR trends and priorities that more than 500 of your peers plan to address in 2024 and beyond.

You will get strategies to address those priorities in your own organisation.

Discussion Topics:

• Understand the trends shaping the HR function for 2024
• Identify APAC HR leaders’ top 5 objectives and priorities for the coming year
• Get recommended actions to help address the top HR leader challenges in 2024

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The Gartner 2024 Top Priorities For HR Leaders

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 21st 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Turbulent times amplify the importance for product leaders to double down on the discovery and validation of customer needs before investing in new products and capabilities.

However, many product teams still struggle to capture valuable customer insights needed to create compelling and differentiated products and services, which are essential to maximizing the chances of success in an increasingly competitive market.

Product leaders must invest in collecting, challenging, and validating market insights prior to deciding on product development initiatives in order to increase the chances of commercial success.

Join Chris Meering (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst to learn about top practices in understanding customer needs for successful product investment decisions.

Discussion Topics:

• Leverage voice of the customer and voice of the market methods and tools
• Utilize internal and external data sources for market insights
• Develop a governance process to rigorously challenge and debate findings

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Drive Better Product Investment Decisions
By Relentlessly Validating Customer Insights

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