Gartner Futures Lab Podcast

Stories are a powerful means of communication. When done well, they heighten engagement, assist with recall and distill complexity to its essence. Effective leaders use stories as a shortcut to audience understanding — a necessary step before action.Science fiction storytelling helps technology innovation leaders envision the plausible futures that today’s trends will create, and communicate their value in a way that is relatable, transformative and inspiring (see Quick Answer: How Can I Use Science Fiction Storytelling to Communicate a Vision of the Future?).In this special edition of the podcast, we present an audio version of Episode 1 of Brave New Worlds — a 12-episode science fiction series that will tell the story of 2B Enterprises. As the first multiversal organization, 2B Enterprises operates across the world we live in, the world we are creating (metaverse) and the world we are exploring and expanding into (space). In the year 2042, Tony Judah, CEO of 2B Enterprises, is on the verge of making history — again. Can he live up to his family name as he accepts the challenge of colonizing another world? Will his organization be the first to become truly multiversal?All the written episodes in the series are available now (see Maverick Stories: Brave New Worlds). Please subscribe and share the episode with your colleagues. Thank you for listening. Gartner Podcasts are a production of Gartner, the world's leading research and advisory company. Equipping executives across the enterprise with indispensable insight, advice, and tools to achieve their mission critical priorities. You can learn more at Gartner.com. All content in Gartner Podcasts is owned by Gartner and cannot be repurposed or reproduced without Gartner's consent. Gartner is an impartial, independent analyst of business and technology. This content should not be construed as a Gartner endorsement of any enterprise's product or services. All content provided by other speakers is expressly the views of those speakers and their organizations.

Gartner Maverick research delivers breakthrough, disruptive and sometimes contradictory ideas that challenge conventional thinking. Formed in our research incubator, it is designed to explore alternative opportunities and risks that could influence your strategy. Maverick findings and advice should be treated with caution. In this episode of the Gartner Futures Lab Podcast, host Marty Resnick sits down with Gartner analyst Elizabeth Beard to talk about her Maverick research. Her research focuses on how progressive revenue and retention leaders use digital humans with generative AI, metaverse, AI and machine learning to increase early funnel productivity while also satisfying customers’ desires to avoid human interaction with suppliers (see Maverick Research: Fire Your B2B Sales Development Reps and Replace Them With Digital Humans). Please subscribe and share the episode with your colleagues. Thank you for listening. Gartner Podcasts are a production of Gartner, the world's leading research and advisory company. Equipping executives across the enterprise with indispensable insight, advice, and tools to achieve their mission critical priorities. You can learn more at Gartner.com. All content in Gartner Podcasts is owned by Gartner and cannot be repurposed or reproduced without Gartner's consent. Gartner is an impartial, independent analyst of business and technology. This content should not be construed as a Gartner endorsement of any enterprise's product or services. All content provided by other speakers is expressly the views of those speakers and their organizations.

Executive leaders should promote the use of technological, political, economical, social/cultural, trust/ethics, regulatory/legal and environmental (TPESTRE) as a planning tool for uncertainty — which Gartner refers to as a “Tapestry” — as an input to strategically plan for the critical decisions, and critical systems that support those decisions. In this episode of the Gartner Futures Lab Podcast, host Marty Resnick sits down with Gartner Distinguished Vice President David Cearley and Vice President Analyst Bettina Tratz-Ryan to talk about the use of Tapestry as a means for an organization to succeed in a disruptive future and build antifragility for sustainable business success. Please subscribe and share the episode with your colleagues. Thank you for listening. Gartner Podcasts are a production of Gartner, the world's leading research and advisory company. Equipping executives across the enterprise with indispensable insight, advice, and tools to achieve their mission critical priorities. You can learn more at Gartner.com. All content in Gartner Podcasts is owned by Gartner and cannot be repurposed or reproduced without Gartner's consent. Gartner is an impartial, independent analyst of business and technology. This content should not be construed as a Gartner endorsement of any enterprise's product or services. All content provided by other speakers is expressly the views of those speakers and their organizations.

Gartner Maverick research delivers breakthrough, disruptive and sometimes contradictory ideas that challenge conventional thinking. Formed in our research incubator, it is designed to explore alternative opportunities and risks that could influence your strategy. Maverick findings and advice should be treated with caution.In this episode of the Gartner Futures Lab Podcast, host Marty Resnick sits down with Gartner analysts Lizzy Foo Kune and Claudia Clemens to talk about the Maverick research program and what leaders could learn from nature, specifically honeybees (seeMaverick Research: Biomimicry: How Honeybees Can Inspire Future Supply Chain Design).  Please subscribe and share the episode with your colleagues. Thank you for listening. Gartner Podcasts are a production of Gartner, the world's leading research and advisory company. Equipping executives across the enterprise with indispensable insight, advice, and tools to achieve their mission critical priorities. You can learn more at Gartner.com. All content in Gartner Podcasts is owned by Gartner and cannot be repurposed or reproduced without Gartner's consent. Gartner is an impartial, independent analyst of business and technology. This content should not be construed as a Gartner endorsement of any enterprise's product or services. All content provided by other speakers is expressly the views of those speakers and their organizations.

While the only long-term prediction that makes sense today is that there really is no predictability, we have to assume disruption will continue, and at a frequency and scale equal to or greater than what we have witnessed. In this episode of the Gartner Futures Lab Podcast, host Marty Resnick sits down with Gartner Distinguished Vice President Frank Buytendijk and Managing Vice President Malcolm Murray to talk about disruptions. They also discuss the recently published Gartner Future Directions 2023: The Age of Disruptions that features 19 disruptions that might materialize sometime between now and 2033 and how leaders should respond.Malcolm Murray is chief of research for Gartner’s Risk Management Leadership Council and Audit Leadership Council. He is also a Gartner Fellow and the agenda manager for strategic risk management. He studies best practices for heads of enterprise risk management and chief audit executives, enabling more than 1,000 executives and more than 40,000 professionals around the world to improve their performance and impact.Frank Buytendijk is a Distinguished VP and Gartner Fellow in Gartner’s Innovation and Disruption team. Frank is co-lead of Gartner Futures Lab. His work mostly takes a futurist approach, researching the edges of what he covers. Frank pioneers the topics of "the future," digital ethics and digital society helping organizations to do the right thing with technology and avoid messing up. Please subscribe and share the episode with your colleagues. Thank you for listening. Gartner Podcasts are a production of Gartner, the world's leading research and advisory company. Equipping executives across the enterprise with indispensable insight, advice, and tools to achieve their mission critical priorities. You can learn more at Gartner.com. All content in Gartner Podcasts is owned by Gartner and cannot be repurposed or reproduced without Gartner's consent. Gartner is an impartial, independent analyst of business and technology. This content should not be construed as a Gartner endorsement of any enterprise's product or services. All content provided by other speakers is expressly the views of those speakers and their organizations.

In this inaugural episode of the Gartner Futures Lab Podcast, host Marty Resnick sits down with Gartner Senior Director Analyst Marko Sillanpaa to discuss the use of science fiction storytelling as a tool to use exciting and intriguing stories to explain technological breakthroughs and imagine how they will affect society and industry in the future. Marko and Marty also discuss the recently launched science fiction series, Brave New Worlds, which tells the story of the fictional 2B Enterprises, the first multiversal organization, operating across the world we live in, the world we are creating (metaverse) and the world we are exploring and expanding into (space).Marko Sillanpaa is a Senior Director Analyst focused on the content/document space. Marko has more than 20 years of experience in information technology, focusing on content technology across platforms, applications, and components. Marko also covers science-fiction prototyping, or storytelling, using entertaining stories to communicate changes in technologist and share trends. He has authored and coordinated several stories while at Gartner. Please subscribe and share the episode with your colleagues. Thank you for listening. Gartner Podcasts are a production of Gartner, the world's leading research and advisory company. Equipping executives across the enterprise with indispensable insight, advice, and tools to achieve their mission critical priorities. You can learn more at Gartner.com. All content in Gartner Podcasts is owned by Gartner and cannot be repurposed or reproduced without Gartner's consent. Gartner is an impartial, independent analyst of business and technology. This content should not be construed as a Gartner endorsement of any enterprise's product or services. All content provided by other speakers is expressly the views of those speakers and their organizations.