IT procurement, financial, asset, and vendor management professionals are well-positioned to identify and execute cost optimization opportunities on the basis of the tactical and strategic nature of their roles, responsibilities, skills and training. Exploiting these unique and specialized talents and skills through collaboration is critical to success. This keynote demonstrates how to engage both IT and business stakeholders through new and collaborative processes to mitigate risk and drive cost optimization to meet your organization’s short- and long-term strategies and goals.Visit http://eod.gartner.com/event/bam23 to view more sessions from Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit, 2015.

The one true life cycle covers how assets enter the organization, and how they are managed throughout the life cycle and, ultimately, disposed of. • What are the processes that enable effective life cycle management? • Which tools and vendors can support the processes? Visit http://eod.gartner.com/event/bam23 to view more sessions from Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit, 2015.

The broadcast industry is at the forefront of digital business, as one of the earliest to be digitally remastered. Industry leaders in particular have had to deal with the fluidity of digital disruptions happening all around them, which have been more challenging than disruptions in the past. This presentation uses television programming as a metaphor for understanding the different types of change. Furthermore, the broadcast industry experience provides wonderful lessons about how mastering “fluidic change” may be the best weapon a business or organization can wield in the digital business world. To view more videos from the Gartner Business Process Management Summit, visit: http://eod.gartner.com/event/bpm13

General wisdom has it that IT thinks it is the bee’s knees in managing technology, including IoT and Operational Technology (OT). In reality IT departments have a lot to learn from the other side of the aisle being the engineering groups who deal with the physical plant in many companies. There are three main areas where listening to the engineering and non IT groups may pay dividends: • Security • Maintenance • Reliability. To view additional videos from Gartner Symposium IT/xpo, visit http://eod.gartner.com/sym25

True digital businesses can not only use things as inputs but recognize that things are the new customers. In this session, we discuss how CIOs can prepare to market to, sell to, and support things as customers. To view additional videos from Gartner Symposium IT/xpo, visit http://eod.gartner.com/sym25

CIOs work with many senior executives who may be considered "eccentric." CEOs, CFOs and other business leaders often exhibit behaviors that are extreme, unusual, or unpredictable. These behaviors may be the result of a mild, hidden or undiagnosed mental disorder, which occur in one out of four adults. Combine such behaviors with a high IQ, and they often result in the "eccentric executive." This session explores eccentricity and provide practical case examples of how CIOs effectively embrace the benefits and cope with the challenges of eccentricity in the executive suite. This research also explores the reality that many CIOs may themselves be eccentric leaders. To view additional videos from Gartner Symposium IT/xpo, visit http://eod.gartner.com/sym25

The intersect of new smart machine algorithms, hardware and big data is creating a big bang of discovery, invention and innovation built on new general purpose technology unlike any we've seen before. The center of this presentation is on the first of the following questions: What will these technologies enable that can't be done today? Why do we believe these changes will occur? What are the obvious and non-obvious knock-on effects? What business processes and functions can be radically transformed using these technologies? And how to prepare for the deluge.To view additional videos from Gartner Symposium IT/xpo, visit http://eod.gartner.com/sym25

For years we have been architecting technology stacks vertical and horizontal stacks. In the digital business era, we should not be thinking about “stacks” at all. We should be thinking about mesh or ecosystems, with organizations bringing services, from people, business, things and technology from any channel and used anywhere. Why does this matter? Because it changes how you think about developing and evolving technology, your partners. It opens the world of options when you are creating solutions and solving problems in your organization. To view additional videos from Gartner Symposium IT/xpo, visit http://eod.gartner.com/sym25

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the major digital business building blocks. We engage you in the emerging IoT story: what it is, why it is important, its impact on leadership and culture, how to build it, and the technologies and vendors that propel it. We lay out use cases to show you how it will affect your daily life and business.To view additional videos from Gartner Symposium /ITxpo, visit http://eod.gartner.com/sym25

A bimodal capability that marries the rock solid with the agile is essential for an enterprise to survive and flourish in the digital era. We will describe how enterprises can deliver on the promise of bimodal, how to create and develop a bimodal capability, and how to avoid significant associated risks. To view additional videos from Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, visit http://eod.gartner.com/sym25