How Gartner Works With CIOs

Gartner for Chief Information Officers provides insight, guidance and tools to help CIOs accelerate decision making and drive digital transformation, while partnering effectively across the organization.

How we support your priorities

Accelerate digital business delivery to drive value​

Empower initiatives across the enterprise, and improve the digital proficiency of executives.

Elevate effectiveness as a business and functional leader​

Perform as an outcome-driven leader on business initiatives, and partner effectively with stakeholders.

Demonstrate agility of technology adoption​

Identify ways to minimize early adoption risks, and maximize opportunities to gain a competitive advantage.

Assess and improve digital performance

Benchmark digital execution against peers, while developing and implementing improvements.

Guidance on mission-critical areas

The Gartner Priorities Navigator™ represents mission-critical areas where Gartner provides supportive expert advice and tools to Chief Information Officers and their teams.

For Chief Information Officers

Gartner provides insights, tools and guidance to support initiatives from improving digital delivery and evolving IT organizational structure to modernizing I&O and cloud while upskilling and retaining talent. By working with Gartner, CIOs can measurably impact the bottom line, demonstrate the value of IT and drive organizational objectives.

How Gartner delivers value for CIOs and their teams

Gartner supports the mission-critical priorities and development needs across your entire team.

CIO

  • Complete access to all Gartner content and tools for CIOs 
  • Ability to initiate inquiries and Executive Partner support*

  • Daily Security Briefing 

  • VIP access to Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ conference

  • Gartner Peer Community™ and exclusive CIO Peer Community access

* For select premium products only

Senior Technology Leaders

  • Gartner for CIOs content and tools

  • Ability to initiate inquiries

  • Daily Security Briefing

  • Peer Community access

Technical Domain Architects

  • Reference architectures, tools and best practices for implementing business use cases

  • Planning guides and roadmaps

  • Access to Peer Community

  • Ability to initiate inquiries with technical experts

  • Access to a Gartner conference

What’s included

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Access our team of 2,500+ research and advisory experts who guide leaders like you to achieve their mission-critical priorities.

Top Gartner experts will provide you with insightful and targeted research along with regular inquiries. In an ever-changing operating environment, you'll have the ability to connect with a Gartner expert whenever priorities shift or as new issues arise.

As an exclusive conference for CIOs, Gartner CIO Leadership Forum is the ideal retreat to connect with fellow CIOs and Gartner experts. Experience unrivaled networking with top CIOs across regions and industries to build new relationships, broaden your perspectives and uncover ways to solve problems alongside other CIOs. 

The experience is unforgettable — and transformative — and as a Gartner client, you’ll have VIP access, including: 

  • CIO workshops: Work through the leading challenges facing CIOs alongside your peers and Gartner experts.

  • Roundtable sessions: Join CIOs from leading organizations and various industries to discuss timely, relevant topics in these small-group sessions, moderated by a Gartner expert.

  • Executive Insights sessions: Detailed and documented case studies, by Gartner invitation. In these sessions expect top executives to reveal lessons from their own organizations.

CIO Leadership Forum

26 – 27 February 2024 | Phoenix, AZ

CIO Leadership Forum

12 – 13 March 2024 | London, U.K.

CIO Leadership Forum

25 – 26 March 2024 | Hollywood, FL

Connect how you want and when you want to learn from your peers who have faced the very same challenges you’re facing and will help you get fast, actionable answers. As a Gartner client, you will also gain exclusive access to features such as Peer Finder, which enables you to connect with similar leaders based on your specific needs. Join more than 100,000 leaders to build your network and gain insights from real-time discussions, member-generated polls and peer-led insights.

Gartner offers optional consulting services to help CIOs deliver faster business impact.

Gartner Consulting supports executives leading technology-driven strategic initiatives. Our team leverages the power of our actionable, objective insight to support and further your progress.

With recommendations anchored in Gartner research and customized for each client, Gartner Consulting can integrate with and become an extension of your team.

“I really value the collaborative approach, the external perspective anchored in research, and the extra horsepower that Gartner has brought us.”

Peder Blomgren
VP and Head of Data Office, R&D, AstraZeneca

Gartner by the numbers

2,500+
Research and advisory experts
460,000+
Annual client interactions
15,000+
Client enterprises

What are the benefits?

Improve leadership effectiveness

Receive personalized advice on how to better leverage your strengths. Discover quick, actionable steps you can take to enhance your performance.

Save time and money

Streamline the path to better purchasing decisions and outcomes fueled by industry-leading Gartner insights and tools.

Make decisions with confidence

Benchmark your digital fundamentals against top performers to enhance your strategy and execution.

Stay ahead of change

Get exclusive access to critical role benchmarks, best practices and proprietary research like Hype Cycles, Magic Quadrants, execution roadmaps and more.

Attend engaging events

Connect with Gartner experts and peers when you gain exclusive access to Gartner events, educational breakouts and more.

Become a better business partner

Leverage cross-functional insights for collaboration, and effectively demonstrate business value and strategy.

How Gartner clients have achieved success

Integrada Cooperativa

Industry: Agriculture
Revenue: $8+ billion
Employees: 1,000-5,000
Emerson Zanoti Rosa, CIO

Gartner provided comprehensive solutions to address Integrada's challenges by:

  • Leveraging the Gartner Digital Execution Scorecard™ and Digital Transformation Roadmap as guides and tools for benchmarking and easing the decision-making process and execution of the transformation program

  • Assigning dedicated Gartner analysts to support Integrada's IT score and provide valuable insights

  • Implementing Fusion Teams and accelerating digital dexterity within the organization

Q-Chem

Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
Revenue: ~$800 million
Employees: 1,000+
Hamad Al-Rewaily, Information Systems Manager

With Gartner’s support, Q-Chem’s Information Systems Manager was able to:

  • Prioritize the initiatives with higher impact and higher acceptance level across the workforce

  • Fast track the digital strategy execution, building on the consensus across the workforce

Arcadis

Industry: Design, Engineering & Management Consulting
Employees: 36,000+ employees

With Gartner’s help, Arcadis built an IT strategy that aligns with business priorities through:

  • Developing scalable solutions to accelerate project delivery and boost efficiency

  • Strengthening teams to refine decision-making and operational effectiveness

  • Assembling data-driven plans with the guidance of Gartner’s Executive Partners

Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services

Industry: U.S. State Agency
Employees: 6,000
Robert Hobbelman | CIO
Glendon Schmitz | CISO

Gartner offered valuable guidance that enabled BDHDS to:

  • Formulate a multi-year strategic IT plan for effective prioritization

  • Set up an IT organization structure spanning multiple facilities, complete with a new team

  • Implement a cohesive IT organizational structure across various facilities

  • Cultivate a highly efficient remote working culture

New Castle County Office of Technology & Administrative Services

Industry: U.S. County Technology & Administration IS
Employees: 2,000+ employees
Michael Hojnicki – Chief of Technology & Administrative Services

With Gartner research and analyst insight, TAS developed a technology roadmap that:

  • Supports cybersecurity, modernization and constituent experience initiatives.

  • Optimizes the vendor procurement process through Gartner insights and Magic Quadrant.

  • Shortens the timeline for cloud migration and optimizes vendor communication.

Drive stronger performance on your mission-critical priorities.