Best Practices Councils – part 1
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 practical best practices from your peers in other large organizations?
Join Gartner Best Practices Councils – an exclusive program for senior executives with similar interests, compatible philosophies and/or comparable IT environments in a sharing environment.
Best Practices Councils members enjoy:
- Dedicated relationship manager
- Access to interactive forums
- Solutions based on members’ experience and guided by Gartner Best Practices research
Members are senior executives in companies with 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.
Architecture & Planning
Practice areas: enterprise IT architecture and strategic planning. Members contribute to lessons about aligning enterprise architecture with an organization’s business strategy, effectively communicating the value proposition of EA to key stakeholders and preparing for change by focusing on corporate agility and innovation.
Emerging Technology Management
Practice area: emerging technology management. Members trade issues critical to their success such as building 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.





