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The Missing Link—How to Connect Your Foundation’s Broad Strategic Objectives to an Actionable Technology Plan
Workshop
Wednesday, November 20, 2019  |  2:30 pm–3:30 pm

How can you take broad goals in you organization's strategic plan and translate them to specific technology contributions? This workshop with Gartner Executive Partner Michael O'Brien will teach you about business capability modeling. By focusing on which future-state business capabilities (NOT technology capabilities) are needed by an organization, business capability modeling allows technology leaders to create a line-of-sight connection between strategy and IT projects. A perfect session for anyone trying to make IT more relevant to the execution of their foundation's strategic plan.

Presenter

• Michael O'Brien, Executive Partner, Gartner

• Michael O'Brien

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Michael O'Brien is an Executive Partner with Gartner Executive Programs based in the southern United States. His clients range from mid-sized nonprofits to large, multi-billion dollar international corporations. 

Michael is passionate about inspiring CIOs and organizations thrive, helping them to leverage technology to deliver enterprise value. He works with a portfolio of CIOs to help with a wide range of initiatives that include leveraging digital to increase revenues, strategic planning, IT brand and business value of IT, leadership development, organizational design, cost optimization, and governance. 

Prior to Gartner, Michael was an independent consultant focusing on strategic planning and executive coaching. Before consulting, Michael was the CIO for the American Geophysical Union (AGU), one of the largest scientific publishers in the world. In this role, he helped them through significant growth by using technology to bring new areas of value for customers while helping streamline internal processes to make a better customer experience. 

Before AGU, Michael held lead IT positions for several international organizations helping them deliver on their strategic objectives. 

Outside of work, Michael enjoys time with his wife and son. He is an avid cyclist, runner, and skier. He is also a World Bicycle Relief Ambassador and has helped raise nearly $100,000 to radically change the lives of African school children by supplying them bicycles.

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