Gartner Summit by Betsy Burton

There are couple of things were interesting from this summit and couple of things were for Organization level.Betsy addressed three key issues to this summit which organizations are facing currently.

1. Which forces will enhance or hamper workforce performance, productivity and leadership?
Nowadays teaming and collaboration of organization become different in terms of workstyles and workplace due to globalization. Since 2000 till now number of people who used to work alone has decreased and will decreased in future as per Gartner.
2. How can CIOs and IT leaders use organizational behavior and evolving worker profiles to drive change?
I was suprised when Betsy said that IT leaders need to change their attitude. The demand of IT leaders used to be based on their skill set. However in future, their demand will be based on their interaction - based. IT leaders should be able to communicate with their clients or cutomers.
3. What are the best practices for attracting and developing a high performace workforce? Betsy mentioned that there are eight best practices for Collaboration. Those are as follow:
1. Assess your readiness.
2. Focus technology selection on people, processes, business and architectre.
3. Agree on common goals and make people accountable.
4. Measure the benefits of collaboration.
5. Monitor human behavior and evolving technology
6. Keep senior management in the loop
7. Extend collaboration outside the company
8. Get consumer technology working for you.

She also mentioned that if you can't make your changes at the organization level, try to change at lower level. Start making changes from your department. Spread the grassroots of best practices. Some day it would change whole organization. I think professor has explained the same theme in the class.