Speaker: Darko Hrelic
Location: Westbourne 3, Level -1
Session Type: Keynote - EMEA

At Gartner we advise and support your efforts in the current economic climate — now come and see what we are doing ourselves to ensure IT can enable the business and ensure the best platform for returning to growth. Darko Hrelic, the CIO of Gartner, will provide a deep dive into the practical approaches and judgments made in relation to Gartner’s own IT I&O budget. IT is a need-to-have requirement for maximum organizational efficiency and effectiveness so here we’ll discuss how you can deliver the savings your senior leaders require, while continuing to deliver maximum capability. Also, we’ll help you to understand how you can make the case for your projects, what factors are foremost in the minds of a CIO and what you need to be telling your CIO in order to survive the present unscathed. To help you communicate your value to the organization, identify things you can change and things you cannot. Darko will show you the picture from inside the world’s foremost IT advisory firm explaining how he has made the IT organization an essential partner in the downturn. What we cut and what we did not cut Fresh investments to advance the business How and where we spent smarter.