Gartner ThinkCast

This year's top strategic technology trends highlight those trends that will drive significant disruption and opportunity over the next five to 10 years.  Hyperautomation, AI engineering and distributed cloud are among the nine technologies that have significant transformative potential.  In this episode, Kasey Panetta, Gartner ThinkCast Host, hears from Mary Mesaglio, Distinguished VP Analyst, and Brian Burke, Research VP as they discuss the trends. Mary and Brian share the trends they find most interesting and what will have the most impact.

What are the seven characteristics of a successful digital leader? In this episode, Gartner ThinkCast host Kasey Panetta interviews Mary Mesaglio, Distinguished VP Analyst about her recent research that dives into how leaders need to think differently in a digital world.

Increasing pressure to keep pace has HR executives scrambling to hire and retain talent prepared for agility.  In this episode, Gartner VP Caroline Walsh explains to Jackie Wiles, Associate Content Director, why organizations must prioritize resilience, not just efficiency, to succeed. The need to respond at speed to the impact of the pandemic revealed that years of focusing heavily on efficiency had often led to organizational fragility and vulnerability. Now organizations must adjust. During this interview, Walsh Walsh discusses the highs and lows for employees as organizations try to build more sustainable processes and work design.

In this episode of ThinkCast, host Kasey Panetta interviews Dion Love, a Vice President of Advisory Services at Gartner.  In order to deliver on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, leaders must take a look at how the traditional hiring process needs to change for organizations to create diverse digital workforces.

In part 2 of the Gartner ThinkCast special series on the Executives Role in Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Kasey Panetta interviews Christie Struckman, VP Analyst to talk about confronting behaviors that marginalize underrepresented employees. Christie explains that any employee can marginalize or be the target of marginalization and once these behaviors are recognized, they must be confronted.

2020 has caused many organizations to push digital initiatives forward at unprecedented speed. This acceleration of digital business means making choices on what initiatives move forward or slow down.  Hung LeHong, VP and Gartner Fellow, joins Gartner ThinkCast to discuss the framework for digital business acceleration and how to use the five lanes to prioritize your digital initiatives for better results.

In this Gartner ThinkCast special series on the Executives Role in Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Kasey Panetta interviews Lauren Romansky, Managing VP of Gartner’s HR practice. Lauren explains how the summer of 2020 has presented a real opportunity for change. Employees across the globe are engaging in discussions of racial justice, leaders are seizing this moment to consider their role and opportunities to advance diversity, equity and inclusion at their organizations.  Related Links Learn More: Gartner Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resource Center Read More: Making the Case for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion During Disruption Attend Webinar: How HR Can Sustain Diversity & Inclusion to Create Change in Moments of Unrest

Featured at the Gartner Symposium IT/Xpo®, the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2020 highlights the 30 emerging technologies with significant impact on business, society and people over the next five to 10 years. In the second episode of our two-part series, we'll talk through the final three trends with experts Brian Burke, Nick Heudecker, Svetlana Sicular and Sylvain Fabre. 

Featured at the Gartner Symposium IT/Xpo, the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2020 highlights the 30 emerging technologies with significant impact on business, society and people over the next five to 10 years. In the first episode of our two-part series, we'll explore how the hype cycle is created, the year's trends and featured technology. In this episode, Kasey Panetta speaks with Gartner analysts, Brian Burke, Yefim Natis and Avivah Litan to discuss their research.

Workforce planning, employee performance and employee experience have all taken on a new meaning post COVID-19. In this episode of Thinkcast, Heather Levy, Vice President of Content Marketing at Gartner has a conversation with Adriana Duque Hughes, Senior Director for Gartner’s HR practice to talk about the changes HR executives and employees are facing and how that trickles down to expectations. This interview dives into the concept of future of work and some specific trends in this uncertain time.