Gartner Executive FastStart™ for CIOs

Gartner Executive FastStart helps you excel in your first year — and beyond.

Gartner Executive FastStart provides a critical advantage to an incredibly complex role

For New To Role CIOs, common challenges include understanding your team’s strengths and weaknesses and collaborating with long-tenured colleagues who may be resistant to change — not to mention misalignment of your role with your CEO’s expectations, unclear responsibilities and the inevitable learning curve of your new remit.

Executive FastStart doesn’t just identify these common challenges; it empowers you to overcome them by prioritizing what matters most — whether you’re a tenured CIO at a new company or you’ve risen through the ranks at your organization.

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Why CIOs rely on Gartner Executive FastStart

A proven approach.

Gartner leverages insights from thousands of executive transitions across dozens of roles, industries and markets. Our deep and detailed experience helps you understand key differentiators, anticipate blind spots and overcome common obstacles.

Personalized insights. Practical advice. Immediate impact.

Every executive transition is unique. Executive FastStart is designed to meet you where you are and deliver a personalized mix of insights and resources to accelerate your impact in the first 30, 60, 90 days and beyond.

Streamlined for success. Prioritized for action.

Executive FastStart is practical, easy to use and prioritized to enable both quick wins and progress toward your mid- and long-term goals.

Unrivaled depth. Powered by Gartner.

Backed by our deep actionable, objective insights, Executive FastStart delivers detailed tools, roadmaps and benchmarks to ensure your success. 

Gartner Executive FastStart™ for CIOs FAQs

What are the key benefits of the Gartner Executive FastStart for CIOs?

Gartner Executive FastStart helps new CIOs focus and prioritize their actions in their first year to quickly maximize their impact. It’s tailored to recognize the different needs of leaders who’ve never done the role before and those stepping into a new environment. Executive FastStart addresses the challenges and opportunities you are likely to experience and serves as a starting point for further support. 

How does the Gartner Executive FastStart program help CIOs manage complexity?

Gartner Executive FastStart recognizes that the IT operating environment is complex, given the rapid pace of technological trends and disruption. This complexity poses significant challenges for new CIOs, especially those transitioning from different sectors. To address this and other challenges, Executive FastStart is split into four areas: establishing priorities quickly, delivering on those priorities in your first year and beyond, understanding your environment and role, and building relationships and personal brand.

Drive stronger performance on your mission-critical priorities.