Real-World Advice From a Network of Your Peers

As a senior IT executive, would you like to be part of a trusted peer network? Are you interested in learning best working practices from your peer executives in other large organizations?

Join Gartner Best Practices Councils - an exclusive program for you to meet other senior executives with similar interests, compatible philosophies and/or comparable IT environments in a sharing environment. As a member you will have a dedicated relationship manager, access to interactive forums, and actionable solutions based on the experience of members - guided by Gartner Best Practices research.

Members are senior executives in companies that are over $1 billion in revenue in North America and $750 million in Europe. Council members are responsible for the budget, organization and strategy for their functional areas.

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Architecture & Planning

Identify best practices covering enterprise architecture and IT strategic planning. Members share lessons about aligning enterprise architecture with the organization's business strategy; effectively communicating the value proposition of enterprise architecture to key stakeholders; and preparing for change by focusing on corporate agility and innovation. Contact us to learn more

Emerging Technology Management

Master best practices for emerging technology management issues. Members interact and exchange on issues critical to their success such as; leading consensus when mapping business requirements to available and emerging technologies, nurturing emerging technologies with opportunities for new and improved business processes, communicating the value of the technology and evaluating and communicating the benefits, risks, and return on investment to business stakeholders. Contact us to learn more

Enterprise Applications - SAP

Discover the best practices covering enterprise applications for SAP issues. Members interact and collaborate on issues critical to their success such as; SAP life cycle planning, vendor management strategies for optimizing performance and ongoing SAP performance tuning. Contact us to learn more

Information Security

Learn more about the best practices covering information security management issues. Members interact and exchange on critical issues such as designing an effective information security organization; ensuring proper governance, compliance practices and enforcement policies are in place; and guaranteeing that security plans keep the enterprise agile, flexible and secure. Contact us to learn more

Infrastructure

Find out about the best practices covering Infrastructure management issues. Members collaborate on pressing issues including demonstrating the value of IT infrastructure investments; dealing with increasing demand to deliver IT services that provide predictable & cost-effective performance; and other challenges that infrastructure executives face. Contact us to learn more

IT Sourcing Management

Identify the best practices covering IT sourcing management issues. Members collaborate and exchange on issues critical to their success such as; performance assessment and relationship management in a multisourced environment, proper interpretation and enforcement of outsourcing contract terms and conditions, fine tuning vendor management and retained services, and management of service providers to balance the contradictory goals of quality, speed and cost of service delivery. Contact us to learn more

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