Every business is a digital business. With companies like Uber, Airbnb, Netflix and others disrupting existing industries, IT organizations are increasingly at the forefront of business initiatives. All organizations — large or small, commercial or public sector — will be impacted by the move to digital business. To drive digital business initiatives and support existing back-office functions requires IT to think, organize and strategize radically differently from the past, using bimodal IT. Last year we introduced the concept of bimodal IT. This year we take it one step further, providing examples of how leading-edge organizations are implementing bimodal IT and offering specific recommendations for I&O leaders prepared to dive into the deep end of the pool. View more sessions from this event at www.gartnereventsondemand.com/lsc34. Find the right gartner event for you at: www.gartner.com/events

I&O leaders don’t necessarily need to get their organizations out of the “data center business,” but they do need to redefine their roles and their teams around the “enterprise-defined data center.” Services and hardware may soon come from various sources, but the core requirements — managing, governing, integrating, driving efficiencies, ensuring effective and adequately secured deployments, protecting the enterprise while appropriately enabling the enterprise to fail faster, driving new uses, experimenting, doing things we aren’t doing today — will be a critical core competency. We will provide guidance to help I&O leaders with the transition toward a model where the data center business is bigger than the data center alone. View more sessions from this event at www.gartnereventsondemand.com/lsc34. Find the right gartner event for you at: www.gartner.com/events

You need to renovate the core of your applications portfolio to prepare it to support digital business. This tutorial will cover the unique needs of digital business and Gartner's proven methodology for developing an application strategy that renovates the core. View more sessions from this event at www.gartnereventsondemand.com/apn29. Find the right gartner event for you at: www.gartner.com/events

Transitioning to digital business readiness will inevitably demand saying goodbye to many old applications. But few IT organizations have much experience in disposing of large old complex applications, creating the potential for portfolios bulging with zombie applications: dead but not yet buried. We need a new breed of hire in the applications team: someone who can finally bury the zombies! View more sessions from this event at www.gartnereventsondemand.com/apn29. Find the right gartner event for you at: www.gartner.com/events.

Traditionally, enterprises and the IT organizations that serve them have taken the machinist’s view of technology, in which humans are just one more input to a system. In the digital humanist view, people are the starting and ending points for technology, not cogs and gears in a complex machine. The increasing scope and impact of technology in the digital era demands that enterprises and IT organizations explicitly incorporate a digital humanistic view into their organization and operations. View more sessions from this event at www.gartnereventsondemand.com/apn29. Find the right gartner event for you at: www.gartner.com/events

"Digital Business does not replace existing business; rather it introduces a new parallel universe. Applications organizations will need to survive and thrive in these two environments. With Gartner’s Bimodal IT, you will adopt two distinct ways to meet enterprise demand: being agile and flexible, and having a step-by-step approach that ensures efficiency and predictability. At the same time, applications and infrastructure will undergo their biggest changes ever, largely driven by the Internet of Things, and making the organization’s ""Applications 2020"" vision a critical success factor. Applications leaders will face unprecedented challenges and opportunities in assisting their organizations in making the move to Digital Business, and have an opportunity to provide key leadership that can extend well beyond the boundaries of traditional IT." View more sessions from this event at www.gartnereventsondemand.com/apn29. Find the right gartner event for you at: www.gartner.com/events

Cloud computing is uniquely susceptible to the perils of myths due to the nature, confusion and hype surrounding it. Even with a mostly agreed-on formal definition, multiple perspectives and agendas still mystify the subject. Whether they revolve around security concerns or cost savings, cloud myths impede innovation and distract us from real progress toward digital business. We highlight some of the most dangerous and misleading cloud myths and how to move beyond them. - What are the top 10 cloud myths and why is cloud susceptible to these? - How can enterprises make decisions that factor the realities of cloud myths appropriately? View more sessions from this event at www.gartnereventsondemand.com/apn29. Find the right gartner event for you at: www.gartner.com/events

The need to enable a digital business by adopting bimodal development practices can seem overwhelming. This session introduces application development and helps you figure out what your first steps on the road to bimodal need to be. - What is bimodal? - How does it impact development? - How to start? View more sessions from this event at www.gartnereventsondemand.com/apn29. Find the right gartner event for you at: www.gartner.com/events

There cannot be innovative and agile business without innovative and agile IT architecture. Old architecture models, which are well-entrenched in many organizations and seem safe, are obsolete and expose organizations to a dangerous accumulation of instant-legacy applications. This session presents key architecture principles for digital business based on the best practices of leading IT organizations and cloud innovators. - What’s wrong with the old architecture models? - What are the key principles of application architecture fit for the Web scale of digital business? View more sessions from this event at www.gartnereventsondemand.com/apn29. Find the right gartner event for you at: www.gartner.com/events

When an organization does not have a discipline to tie business needs to its sourcing strategy, the strategy and actions can be ineffective, misaligned and disruptive to the business. Learn how to apply Gartner’s sourcing decision framework to have greater predictability in your decision making. • Why is it imperative to build a disciplined process for sourcing decision making? • What process should be utilized to make business-aligned decisions? • What are the triggers for reconsidering sourcing options? Visit http://eod.gartner.com/event/std18 to view additional sessions from Gartner Sourcing & Strategic Vendor Relationships Summit.