Gartner Blog Network

COVID-19: Tech CEOs Prepare for Impact on Revenue Growth in Light of an Emerging Recession

by Rene Buest  |  April 23, 2020

COVID-19 is a ubiquitous topic dominating the media landscape and short-term strategies of CEOs leading small and midsize technology and service providers. According to Gartner’s recent Tech CEO Research Circle...

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Thoughts on reopening for business- and technology's role for sellers

by Melissa Hilbert  |  April 23, 2020

With talk of reopening business and getting economies going, it makes me think about the fact that it can be one size fits all. How will each organization prepare to...

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Product Managers Can Assist Others in Dealing with Uncertainty

by Clifton Gilley  |  April 23, 2020

Product managers are used to dealing with a high level of uncertainty in the daily work that we do. We're masters at handling unknowns and building contingency plans within contingency...

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CDPs in 2020: Independent CDPs are likely to diversify their offerings or will be acquired within the next 3 Years

by Benjamin Bloom  |  April 23, 2020

Earlier this month, Gartner published an updated Market Guide for Customer Data Platforms (subscription required). Marketer interest in CDPs has been steady for the past 18 months. Meanwhile, the landscape...

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Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools

by Deacon D.K. Wan  |  April 23, 2020

Newer vendors are successfully challenging past Leaders as enterprise-scale agile methodologies enter the mainstream. This Magic Quadrant evaluates 16 vendors of enterprise agile planning tools to help you make the...

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Time to Kill the Password! Or Is it? OK, at the Very Least, MFA All the Way!

by David Mahdi  |  April 22, 2020

During the pandemic, many organizations rushed to enable an effective remote workforce.  Employees need access to their corporate network, and other cloud services (i.e. VPN, Workday, Salesforce, Microsoft Office 365)...

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What Will Drive Innovation in this Great Reset

by Andrew White  |  April 22, 2020

The human tragedy and losses are still yet unknown and growing. Indeed, we are not exactly out of the woods with Covid-19. China, just 10 days ago, was worried about...

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Understanding the jargon of content operations technology

by Colin Reid  |  April 22, 2020

As COVID-19 throws everyone into turmoil, marketers and brands are looking to accelerate the delivery of meaningful communications to their customers, suppliers and employees. An effectively implemented content operations ecosystem,...

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Enduring Impact of COVID-19 on Field Sales

by Dave Egloff  |  April 21, 2020

Last October, I wrote a blog called “Are Field Sales Feeling a Squeeze?” where I mentioned that field sales leaders may lose accounts to key account programs and inside sales functions. The...

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Apparel Retailers Must Plan to Succeed

by Robert Hetu  |  April 21, 2020

Plan to Succeed Merchandise planning is the core of retailing, where multi-million dollar decisions are made on a daily basis in a diverse organization structure. Product selection, availability and pricing...

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