By Alexis Wierenga | December 05, 2023
Executive Insights from Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference
As generative AI and platform engineering practices promise to accelerate decision making and enable an adaptable infrastructure. Gartner Distinguished VP Analysts Thomas Bittman and Dennis Smith and Sr Principal Analyst Autumn Stanish shared how to empower your team with the capabilities needed to transform your I&O future.
To embrace generative transformation:
Use GenAI. Build a plan with skills development at the forefront to multiply the productivity of your staff and transform how they do their jobs.
Apply infrastructure platform engineering principles. Treat users as customers, leverage software engineering practices and invest in automation and orchestration skills.
Foster a generative mindset. Hire for capabilities, facilitate creative skills growth and build a culture of experimentation.
“Generative transformation is about continuously transforming; continuously improving performance, efficiency, and service delivery; and continuously adapting to new technologies to meet new business objectives — all at the speed of business.”
Thomas Bittman, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner
To enable growth, you must help scale initiatives throughout the enterprise, even amidst significant external and internal challenges. In this session, Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst Nathan Hill highlighted the key issues and trends impacting I&O and outlined leadership actions for success in 2024 and beyond.
“The goal is not balance between supply and demand. The goal is to meet the most profitable and mission-critical demand with the resources available.”
Nathan Hill, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner
Take these actions to meet challenges, prioritize resources and align to top business priorities:
Use resilience to manage technical debt. Increase reliability, tolerability and recoverability to minimize debt in new services and remove it from existing ones.
Attract and retain top talent. Attend to overlapping attraction and attrition drivers while upskilling employees, especially when it comes to their critical thinking.
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Thomas Bittman is a Vice President and Distinguished Analyst with Gartner Research. Mr. Bittman has led the industry in areas such as cloud computing, virtualization, and edge computing. He was an early pioneer for the concept of private cloud computing and invented the term "real-time infrastructure" in 2002 (a precursor to private cloud computing). Mr. Bittman served for three years as a member of Gartner's Senior Research Board. In 2005, he earned Gartner's Analyst of the Year Award. He has served as Gartner's Lead Analyst covering IBM, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. His primary focus of research is edge computing and the future of infrastructure.
Dennis Smith is a Distinguished Vice President, Analyst in the Infrastructure and Operations organization. He is responsible for research in the areas of cloud computing, infrastructure platform engineering and container technologies.
Autumn Stanish is a Sr. Principal Analyst with Gartner in the I&O Digital Workplace Transformation group. Her research addresses IT sustainability and the role of I&O in corporate ESG initiatives. In addition to sustainability, she also supports IT leaders with employee device trends and procurement strategies, including DEX tools, lifecycle planning and vendor selection.
Nathan Hill is a Chief of Research with Gartner's Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) Research. He researches and sets the direction and framework for research across all I&O domains, including Cloud and Edge Computing, AI & Machine Learning, Automation, Infrastructure Agility, Continuous Operations, and DevOps, Digital Workplace I&O, and IT Service Management. He has been the Global Conference Chair for Gartner I&O events (physical and virtual). He frequently works with and advises executives, globally, in large and small enterprises, investors, governments, technology and service providers.
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