Government CIOs and IT leaders often struggle with how to develop, select and use the right metrics, KPIs and dashboards to present to executive leadership. A successful IT performance measurement program communicates metrics that are important to a target audience. This remains true when communicating IT investments to the business. Join this complimentary Gartner IT webinar as a Gartner expert analyzes benchmarks and metrics to provide an industry-wide overview of current IT trends. These benchmarks and metrics can be used to assist in communicating alignment with the business and in evaluating targets in key technology areas. They also assist you in developing and communicating metrics, KPIs, and dashboards to improve and influence decision-making toward desired business outcomes.

• Determine appropriate metrics for executive leaders
• Align technology metrics towards organizational outcomes
• Use metrics to demonstrate progress in going digital 

CIOs are responsible for developing IT strategies that facilitate and drive enterprise transformation, and ensuring that those strategies are effectively implemented. Effectively communicating the IT strategy to stakeholders is critical to securing the right support, funding and other resources needed to deliver on the plan. CIOs who struggle to personalize their strategic plan communications to their audience may face a lack of support, hindering their ability to secure the necessary resources and funding to deliver on the plan. Join this complimentary Gartner webinar for CIOs and IT executives as Gartner experts explore how to secure the buy-in you need to galvanize support for your IT strategic plan. 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.

• Build an IT strategy that directly enables the success of the enterprise business strategy
• Create a reusable storyboard to convey the value and purpose of your IT strategic plan
• How to apply persuasive communication to resolve tension and secure approval and buy-in 

Cost and value are the levers driving all business outcomes with the exception of cybersecurity, until now. Executive boards want cybersecurity managed like other business risks. Measuring cybersecurity value delivery and establishing a standard of care accrues benefits, shifting the landscape in cybersecurity investment. Security and risk leaders must be able to communicate the risks, value and cost of cybersecurity to their board of directors. Join this complimentary Gartner cybersecurity webinar as a Gartner expert explores how using a cybersecurity outcome-driven metrics approach can steer investment in your organization. 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.

• Measure the benefits of how cybersecurity value delivery and establishing a standard of care can shift the cybersecurity investment landscape
• Understand how you can partner with stakeholders to drive technology priorities and investments
• Understand how to communicate outcome-driven metrics to your board of directors

Organizational structures can create silos and barriers that hinder collaboration and communication, leading to delays and inefficiency. To accelerate digital delivery, chief information officers (CIOs) should promote cross-functional efforts by designing structures that support product-team-focused business goals and outcomes. As CIOs evolve IT to a product-delivery-centric operating model, they often have questions like: Which organizational structure best supports our new priorities? Should any functions move outside IT? Where do governance and planning functions fit in this model? Join this complimentary Gartner leadership webinar as Gartner experts explore examples from CIOs who have led IT reorganization strategies. Plus, you will learn key organizational design principles your peers have applied when making IT organizational structure changes that support the shift to digital product delivery. 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.

• Understand key organizational design principles that avoid delays and inefficiency
• Explore how CIOs can accelerate digital product delivery and execution success
• Identify which organizational structure supports product-delivery-centric operating model

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. Join this complimentary Gartner leadership webinar, a follow-up to The 5 Steps to Change the Culture of Your Organization as a Gartner expert shares case studies of organizations that successfully changed their cultures, as well as common challenges and best practices. Explore how you can follow these organizations’ success and accelerate the delivery and achievement of your business strategy using the Gartner Five Steps for Culture Change model. You will walk away from this session with a copy of the research slides and recommended actions to help you achieve your goals. 

• Identify the 5 steps necessary to make culture change happen
• Understand and overcome the biggest barriers to culture change
• Learn from organizations that are further along in their culture change journey

Enterprise operating structures increasingly face challenges from turbulent and uncertain business scenarios. Enterprises often respond with some degree of centralizing, decentralizing or federating their approaches to how decisions are made and accountabilities distributed to become more responsive, capture opportunities or pivot their strategies. Centralized decision making maximizes synergies among business units through better and more effective coordination. Decentralized decisions enable faster, better responses to changing market conditions and constituent needs. Federated decisions seek an optimal balance between centralized and decentralized approaches to better serve constituents while leveraging enterprise-wide efficiencies. Join this complimentary Gartner IT webinar as a Gartner expert provides CIOs with a practical approach to avoiding the common stereotypes associated with centralization, decentralization and federation and to help you determine how to best achieve your business objectives and goals. 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.

• Balance the need for enterprise-wide IT integration and faster market response time
• Define ownership of IT functions, resources and assets across the enterprise and ecosystems
• Continuously refine the IT decision rights matrix to sustain enterprise-business unit alignment.

Dive into the quantum realm and explore how quantum computing (QC) is setting the stage for a major paradigm shift in technology and business. Quantum computing is poised to revolutionize data encryption, amplify decision-making in complex scenarios, speed up R&D, refine financial models and redefine AI-driven insights. Its emergence could result in competitive realignments, the birth of novel markets, and redirection of strategic investments. Join this complimentary Gartner emerging technology webinar as a Gartner expert explores the basics of quantum mechanics driving this revolution and understand the groundbreaking potential of pivotal algorithms. 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.

•    What is quantum computing and why should executive leaders care about it

•    When should enterprises put quantum computing on their technology planning agenda

•    How should executive leaders prepare for the impact of quantum computing on their business

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) will be a natural companion of many human workers, augmenting or autonomously delivering tasks, activities or jobs. Organizations will expect general human workers to interact with GenAI in the same way they expect an office worker to be productive in using basic productivity tools, such as email, calendars and word processors. Instead of waiting until GenAI-based tools can show their full maturity in addressing all relevant dimensions, infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders should start experimenting with GenAI tools now. Join this complimentary I&O webinar as a Gartner expert helps I&O leaders identify 15 GenAI use cases that can increase I&O-related key performance indicators and market maturity.

• Explore 15 AI use cases I&O leaders can use to increase KPs and market maturity
• Identify basic tools to help ramp up your GenAI initiatives 
• Take advantage of “low-hanging fruit” to achieve additional efficiency in a shorter time through GenAI

For chief information officers (CIOs) to get the optimal return on their spending on IT staff, they first must evaluate how staffing levels will impact the delivery of IT services for business continuity and enterprise performance. Then, they must develop an action plan that aligns with business objectives. Failure to align IT investment and related staffing levels to business outcomes leads CIOs to focus on short-term cost goals rather than long-term objectives and sustainability. Join this complimentary Gartner leadership webinar to discover the three steps CIOs should take to balance cost efficiency with the continued enablement of business outcomes. 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. 

• Align future IT value-impacting deliverable efforts and staffing requirements to business goals 
• Benchmark and right-size enterprise IT staffing levels to drive the enterprise’s strategic priorities
• Use role segmentation frameworks to prioritize roles toward enabling business outcomes

Midsize enterprise (MSE) IT leaders face significant security challenges when trying to deliver services with small teams and limited 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 complimentary Gartner security and risk webinar as Gartner experts explore 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.

• 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