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Understanding the trajectory of AI technologies is crucial for executive leaders looking to harness these innovations’ full potential.

In this episode, Senior Director Analyst Afraz Jaffri breaks down the 2024 Gartner Hype Cycle™ for AI, offering a clear perspective on the latest developments and trends in AI. Discover where GenAI stands today, what’s next for maturing technologies such as computer vision, and how emerging trends like decision intelligence could shape the future.

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Watch Now: Gartner Global Chief of Research Breaks Down the 2024 Gartner AI Hype Cycle

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With the start of a new year and leaders looking to turn their strategies into actions, we’re revisiting some timely advice for executive vision.

Whether you’re joining a new organization or are a veteran leading a company transformation, it’s critical for any executive leader to know how to build, craft and execute a change in direction.

In this episode, Distinguished VP Analyst Mary Mesaglio walks through the key tactics to craft a clear transformation message, followed by how to define your organization’s values and identity — and put them into motion.

This episode originally aired in August 2024.

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Download Now: The Top Strategic Priorities for Your Executive Role

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Watch Now: This Is Why Your Values Aren’t Actions Yet

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In the noisy world of digital marketing, what can catapult a brand to "genius" status?

Suzanne Schwartz, Senior Director Analyst in the Gartner for Marketing Leaders practice, delves into the findings of our annual Genius Brands report, which benchmarks the digital marketing performance of brands across industries. This year’s report emphasizes the importance of investing in people and processes over technology, maintaining robust brand governance and prioritizing customer touchpoints. The 36 brands featured outperform their peers by leveraging data science, machine learning and generative AI to create impactful marketing.

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Download Now: Digital Marketing Excellence in Action: See the Standout Performers

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Learn More: 3 Impending Technology Shifts Rule the Gartner Hype Cycle™ for Digital Marketing

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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. 

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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.

From olive oil to pharmaceuticals to news, fakes are everywhere. In this episode, Gartner ThinkCast host Kasey Panetta speaks with Avivah Litan, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, about the current state of counterfeits and the dangers they pose to consumers. We’re also going to learn how to distinguish genuine products and contents from their fake counterparts and what industries are most at risk. 

What if organizations thought about privacy not as something dictated by laws, but rather driven by principles? In this ThinkCast episode, Gartner analyst Bart Willemsen explains why companies should be taking a risk-based approach to privacy and what that means for balancing safety, productivity and privacy.

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Download Guide: The Executive’s Guide to Returning to the Workplace

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Read More: Gartner Top 9 Security and Risk Trends for 2020

As organizations begin to recover from COVID-19, a critical question remains unanswered: How must business strategy change to meet reset goals and ambitions. In this episode of Gartner ThinkCast, Gartner Associate Director of Content Marketing , Jackie Wiles speaks with Chris Howard, Gartner Chief of Research. Chris shares new research on a framework to help business leaders navigate the phases of pandemic recovery and reset strategy in these highly disrupted times.