Barbara Gomolski is managing vice president in the IT Metrics and Finance team within the CIO Research group at Gartner. She works extensively with clients on issues of running the business of IT, specializing in IT financial and performance management. For the past nine years, Ms. Gomolski has worked with clients to help them set IT investment levels and optimize the return on those investments. She also spearheaded Gartner's primary research in the area of IT spending for many years.