Gartner Expert

Charlotte Boliver

Sr Director Analyst

Charlotte Boliver is a Senior Director, Analyst for Gartner's R&D practice. Ms. Boliver supports heads of R&D and innovation by unpacking the causes of their critical challenges and providing guidance grounded in best practice research to help leaders make more informed decisions.

Ms. Boliver works with senior executives at Fortune 500 companies across all major industries. She specializes in helping clients formalize their approaches to monitoring of external technologies, building technology roadmaps, enhancing their ideation programs, bringing efficiency to product development, and incorporating unmet customer needs into product development.

Previous experience

Ms. Boliver brings client-facing commercial experience from her past role in account management. She has a well-rounded understanding of different functional leadership perspectives having worked closely with heads of finance, FP&A, accounting & reporting, investor relations, shared services, and audit/risk, which she uses in her current role as an R&D Advisor.

Professional background

CEB, Account Management, 3 years

Areas of coverage
  • New Product Development

  • R&D Technology Strategy and Incubation

  • R&D Talent

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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How should I monitor and select technologies to invest in that will drive long term growth?

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How do I build technology roadmaps that are clear, measurable, and communicable?

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How do I determine whether to build, buy or partner to develop technologies?

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How can we build a process for surfacing and managing ideas?

05

How do I build compelling career paths for R&D associates?