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Sarah Davies
Sr Director Analyst
Sarah Davies is a Sr. Research Director with Gartner's CIO Midsize Enterprise A&E Team team. She enables MSE CIOs to drive business value through actionable insights and guidance. Her research focus includes product, portfolio and program management, enterprise agility, business transformation and PPM tools. Before becoming an analyst, Ms. Davies worked as the Head of Global Platforms and specialized in digital transformation and enterprise agility.
Previous experience
Prior to this, Ms. Davies was involved in guiding the executive board on the selection of strategic technologies enabling central initiatives to increase enterprise agility. She was also a part of evolving the role of PPM Leaders within the organization from domain level PMO through to enterprisewide portfolio management. She achieved global reduction in central costs while increasing productivity, managing three technology budgets over four years. She worked for the management of global change teams; championing leadership development and adoption of cloud-based collaboration tools.
Professional background
Regus, Programme Manager, 2 years
STA Travel, Head of Global Programme Management, 4 years
TUI, Business Transformation Project Manager, 4 years
Areas of coverage
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Strategic Portfolio Management
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Midsize Enterprise IT Leadership
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Executive Leadership: Digital Business Strategy and Planning
Education
B.Sc., Geology, University of Leicester
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
Program and portfolio management
Resource and demand management
Transformation
Governance
Digital Workplace