Optimize the Future of Education

Innovate the digital transformation journey in education institutions

Build digital skills and technologies for sustainable transformation

Education institutions recognize that the transformational power of digital is forcing them to change their business models in response to consumer demands and competitive pressure. Gartner knows the importance of making institutions more easily adaptable to change and what this entails from both a learning environment and administration system perspective.

This eBook will help you:

  • Gain insight into top technology trends in education
  • Shape your IT strategy and priorities
  • Enable new enterprise business capabilities and optimize existing processes.

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    Trending insights and tools for education technology leaders

    Insights to enable faster, smarter decisions

    Assess the issues and challenges faced by K-12 education CIOs with the top 9 practicies by highly composable enterprises.

    Assess how higher education CIOs can maximize education delivery using business composability.

    Utilize available higher education funding to supercharge digital transformation plans. 

    Develop your cybersecurity incident response plan for cybersecurity incidents. 

    Digital Initiatives in Education: What to Prioritize and Where to Invest.

    Resources and tools to drive stronger performance

    Gartner IT Score gives you a custom, on-demand view of your function’s performance and maturity versus a benchmark peer group, and enables you to plot your improvement path. 

    Gartner Magic Quadrant™ research helps you find best-in-class vendors of software solutions and services.

    Gartner BuySmart™ helps you make fast, smart budget and tech decisions.

    Gartner Digital Execution Scorecard™ provides a common language that connects strategic digital priorities to underlying digital enablers, to provide clarity around high impact technology investments.

    Measure, prioritize and improve your organization's performance

    Chief Information Officers play an integral role in digital transformation.

    Chief Information Security Officer enables business leaders to make the right decisions. 

    Chief Data Officers can create a competitive tice advantage through data and analytics innovation, data literacy and data-driven digital transformation.

    Infrastructure and Operations leaders need to keep the pace with technology innovations and meet digital business goals.

    Support for other IT leadership roles to execute on application and software engineering, IT sourcing and vendor management, enterprise architect and technical professional mission-critical strategies.

    Emerging digital transformation trends in education

    While technology in itself often drives change, CIOs must be able to tell how technology impacts the institution’s operation model, business model (sustainable funding model) and ultimately the education ecosystem. Education's evolution requires a shift in administrative and educational technologies to support new and evolving ways of doing business.
    A chart showing education digital transformation and innovation.

    Working with Gartner helps us to understand the value of what we are doing and put that in terms that the rest of the universe can understand so that we can truly measure it but more important it gives us the ability to focus on the right priorities.

    David Reeve

    CIO, Macquarie University

    Insights you can use

    With Gartner’s research, insight, and guidance, education CIOs can become enablers of student outcomes and help the education organization achieve its broader institutional mission through digital transformation, innovation and technology optimization.
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    Gartner Panel: Prepare for the Top Cybersecurity Threats in Higher Education

    Understand the cybersecurity issues most impacting education institutions, particularly higher education, and the steps institutions must take to protect themselves today and into the future.

    Gartner Panel: Prepare for the Top Cybersecurity Threats in Higher Education

    Understand the cybersecurity issues most impacting education institutions, particularly higher education, and the steps institutions must take to protect themselves today and into the future.

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    Education Technology Optimization and Modernization Primer 2022

    Education institutions and organizations are thinking beyond the pandemic to evolve new and existing digital capabilities and generate a modern technology framework. We help education CIOs compose plans to deploy education technology systems that optimize delivery and maximize outcomes.

    Education Technology Optimization and Modernization Primer 2022

    Education institutions and organizations are thinking beyond the pandemic to evolve new and existing digital capabilities and generate a modern technology framework. We help education CIOs compose plans to deploy education technology systems that optimize delivery and maximize outcomes.

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    Eye on Innovation Awards for Education

    The Gartner Eye on Innovation Awards for Education recognizes companies for their innovative use of tech to drive best-in-class initiatives.

    Eye on Innovation Awards for Education

    The Gartner Eye on Innovation Awards for Education recognizes companies for their innovative use of tech to drive best-in-class initiatives.

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    2022 CIO Agenda: A Higher Education Perspective

    The 2022 CIO Agenda provides insights into how higher education CIOs can maximize education delivery by leveraging business composability.

    2022 CIO Agenda: A Higher Education Perspective

    The 2022 CIO Agenda provides insights into how higher education CIOs can maximize education delivery by leveraging business composability.

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    2022 CIO Agenda: A K-12 Education Perspective

    The 2022 CIO Agenda provides insights to assess the issues and challenges faced by K-12 education CIOs regarding business composability.

    2022 CIO Agenda: A K-12 Education Perspective

    The 2022 CIO Agenda provides insights to assess the issues and challenges faced by K-12 education CIOs regarding business composability.

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    Gartner Predicts: Strategic Priorities for Higher Education CIOs

    Explore key predictions for the future of higher education that will guide CIO strategic planning for the medium term.

    Gartner Predicts: Strategic Priorities for Higher Education CIOs

    Explore key predictions for the future of higher education that will guide CIO strategic planning for the medium term.

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    Client Success Stories for Education

    Learn how Gartner helps information technology teams in education achieve their mission critical priorities.

    Client Success Story

    Discover Cost Savings Through Efficient Decision Making

    Charleston County School District is the second largest district in South Carolina, servicing 87 schools and specialized programs. IT compliance is pivotal for school districts to prioritize critical issues and maintain industry-leading cybersecurity to enable a cohesive community throughout the state. This requires IT leaders to be insightful and calculated as well as collaborative and confident in decision making to achieve success in their highest mission-critical initiatives.
    Client Success Story

    Prioritizing IT Innovation that Aligns Mission-Critical Initiatives

    The University of Tennessee Health Science Center provides inclusive education, research, scientific discovery, clinical care and public service across the state of Tennessee and beyond. The IT department connects 7,200+ students and faculty across all departments and locations, making providing best in-class resources paramount. 

    Gartner is a trusted advisor and an objective resource for more than 14,000 enterprises in 100+ countries.

    Learn more about how we can help you achieve your mission-critical priorities.