Tracks
25 Tracks
This event is available now. It will be available through 10/16/2012 (343 sessions viewable). 
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| Maturity Level: Advanced | ADV | |
| Applications | The economic and social traditions of the Industrial Age are being rebuilt around collaborative, social, information-driven models. Business leaders seek capabilities to drive breakthroughs in revenue growth, organizational performance, customer loyalty and innovation. Cloud, software as a service, social, collaboration, mobile, integration and intelligence technologies will have a significant impact on how applications are sourced and managed. This track focuses on how these forces will dramatically overhaul the application portfolio and require new skills for application leaders to balance new and legacy investments. | APP |
| Business Intelligence & Information Management | As IT leaders re-imagine how they deliver value, information takes center stage. Contemporary pressures demand it—information volumes, rates of change, and complexity are at extreme levels, while business leaders require rapid and comprehensive analytical insight. This track will explore drivers for why organizations must modernize approaches to analyzing data and understanding business performance, by leveraging emerging techniques for pattern identification and visualization. In addition, it will highlight the criticality of strengthening the information management infrastructure for greater agility and control in how data is accessed, integrated and shared. | BIIM |
| Business Process Improvement | You can’t re-imagine IT when you’re burdened with outdated business processes and skills. You need an innovative vision that delivers crystal-clear business process visibility to management, staff and customers; brings clarity to daily operations; and anticipates and remedies process performance failures. This is what business process improvement (BPI) delivers as it solidifies IT’s value proposition to the business, re-imagines how work could be done and opens a new level of process-based performance. | BPI |
| Virtual Track: Context-Aware Computing | CC | |
| CIO | The CIO program at Symposium concentrates on the issues, decisions, and actions required to enhance IT performance. By defining new sources of IT-led innovation and competitive advantage you will gain the knowledge to make you a more effective leader. | CIO |
| Virtual Track: Cloud Computing | Cloud | |
| Infrastructure & Operations: Mobile, Client Computing and Communications | Hyperconnected workforces need access from their office, home or on the road across a variety of wired and wireless networks. Users are bringing their own preferences for PCs, tablets and smartphones into the workplace for productivity and business access, and are using unified communications across voice, video and data to improve workforce collaboration. Today’s organizations need to re-imagine IT and prepare for this extreme environment. This track will provide the foundation to build strategies that span mobility, client computing and communications while addressing the ambitions of end users, IT and the business as a whole. | COMM |
| Infrastructure & Operations: Data Center, Server, Storage and IT Operations | Developing or managing a flexible infrastructure is the top-priority IT strategy for CIOs, according to the Gartner 2011 CIO Survey. For true flexibility, I&O leaders must embrace new infrastructure technologies and operational management capabilities for virtualization, data centers, servers and storage to enable business innovation and growth. Build your strategy to cut through the hype of public, private and hybrid cloud computing’s many implications, while rising to the challenge of delivering tangible improvements in IT agility, quality of service and efficiency of infrastructure solutions. | DC |
| Enterprise Architecture | Public and private sector organizations are using enterprise architecture (EA) to re-imagine IT, and as a tool for business transformation and innovation. EA is a strategic planning process that integrates business and IT strategy, improving both financial efficiency and business effectiveness. Business capability models, improved governance and “auditable” investment alignment are achievable goals. Join us as we show you the tools and best practices that mature EA teams employ to fuel their success. | EA |
| Gartner Executive Programs Member Agenda | EP | |
| Maturity Level: Foundational | FDL | |
| Virtual Track: IT and Economy | ITE | |
| Key Initiative: Innovation Management | KI23 | |
| Key Initiative: Strategic Planning | KI42 | |
| Virtual Track: Operational Technology | OT | |
| Virtual Track: Pattern-Based Strategy | PBS | |
| Program & Portfolio Management | Organizations look to Program & Portfolio Management (PPM) to deliver the right business capabilities within a volatile business context. However, the common practices of PPM avoid change and creativity in the worship of on-time, on-budget, and low-risk delivery. To ensure success, the PPM landscape must be navigated with a new vision. PPM leaders must become “change innovators” rather than just collecting demand. Strategies and practices need to be reevaluated so organizations can move faster, change more often and deal directly with growing complexity. The fact that decisions have a shorter-than-ever shelf life is shaping a new reality that no PPM leader can afford to ignore. | PPM |
| Security & Risk Management | Profound changes call for profound responses—this is the situation for those responsible for information security and risk management in 2011. IT delivery is changing fast. Private cloud is here and public cloud is not far off. A plethora of consumer and mobile devices are performing roles requiring enterprise-grade security. The people whom we are required to authenticate and allow within the corporate perimeter are not within the direct control of the organization. Security and risk leaders must balance efficiency and effectiveness with true business value, within the parameters of governance and compliance requirements. | SEC |
| Strategic Initiatives | IT is being continually transformed by many developments in technology and beyond. Many of these rise to the level of being considered “strategic initiatives,” and are showcased in this track. In recent years, new topics such as context-aware computing, Pattern-Based Strategy and cloud computing have been introduced at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in this way. In addition to continued coverage of these strategic initiatives, the next wave of thinking will be shared with attendees through these sessions. This track is designed to help CIOs and IT leaders re-imagine IT by showcasing the most recent thinking and cutting-edge approaches. | SI |
| Virtual Track: Social Media | SM | |
| Sourcing & Vendor Relationships | These are turbulent times in sourcing as cloud computing, utility services and as-a-service models disrupt traditional deals. Players are merging, new entrants are emerging and offshore geographies are diverging; vendors are finding new ways to interpret existing agreements, increasing the need for vendor management. Navigate these troubled waters with practical help on disruptive trends and all aspects of contract negotiation. | SORC |
| Focus: Strategy | Strategy | |
| Virtual Track: Sustainability | SUS | |
| Focus: Tactical | Tactical | |
