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Best Practices CouncilsReal-World Advice From a Network of Your Peers As a senior IT executive, would you like to be part of a trusted peer network? Are you interested in learning practical best practices from your peers in other large organizations? Join Gartner Best Practices Councils - an exclusive program for senior executives with similar interests, compatible philosophies and/or comparable IT environments in a sharing environment. Best Practices Councils members enjoy:
Members are senior executives in companies with over $1 billion in revenue in North America and $750 million in Europe. Council members are responsible for the budget, organization and strategy for their functional areas. 
Architecture & PlanningPractice areas: enterprise IT architecture and strategic planning. Members contribute to lessons about aligning enterprise architecture with an organization's business strategy, effectively communicating the value proposition of EA to key stakeholders and preparing for change by focusing on corporate agility and innovation. 
Emerging Technology ManagementPractice area: emerging technology management. Members trade issues critical to their success such as building consensus when mapping business requirements to available and emerging technologies, nurturing emerging technologies with opportunities for new and improved business processes, communicating the value of the technology and evaluating and communicating the benefits, risks, and return on investment to business stakeholders. 
Enterprise Applications - SAPPractice area: enterprise applications for SAP. Members cooperate on such critical issues as SAP life cycle planning, vendor management strategies for optimizing performance and ongoing SAP performance tuning. 
Information SecurityPractice area: information security management. Members work together on critical issues such as designing an effective information security organization, ensuring proper governance, compliance practices and enforcement policies are in place and guaranteeing that security plans keep the enterprise agile, flexible and secure. 
InfrastructurePractice area: infrastructure management. Council members collaborate on pressing issues including demonstrating the value of IT infrastructure investments, dealing with increasing demand to deliver IT services that provide predictable & cost-effective performance and other challenges that infrastructure executives face. 
IT Sourcing ManagementPractice area: IT sourcing management. Members exchange issues critical to their success: performance assessment and relationship management in a multi-sourced environment, proper interpretation and enforcement of outsourcing contract terms and conditions. Council members also explore fine tuning vendor management and retained services, management of service providers to balance the contradictory goals of quality, speed and cost of service delivery. |
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