Gartner Business Quarterly

Proven guidance for C-suite action

Gartner business quarterly 2025
Q4 2025

Smart Planning for 2026

Multiple intersecting factors complicate planning for 2026 — including rapid AI advancement, geopolitical tensions and cost pressures. The Q4 2025 issue of GBQ helps executive leaders set the right priorities to drive growth.

This edition includes actionable advice on how to:

  • Make strategic planning more adaptive and responsive to change.
  • Select high-value AI initiatives that reduce cost or grow revenue.
  • Categorize cybersecurity threats and tailor responses.
  • Use AI to improve financial forecasting.
  • Set annual growth targets that reflect the supply chain’s true capacity.
  • Build flexible workforce plans for a range of plausible futures.

Gartner clients can access the full journal here.

Download the 4Q25 Gartner Business Quarterly

Get guidance on how to plan effectively for 2026 amid complex and volatile external conditions. Want to know more? Download our free sample below.

By clicking the "Continue" button, you are agreeing to the Gartner Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Contact Information

All fields are required.

Company/Organization Information

All fields are required.

Optional

About Gartner Business Quarterly

Gartner Business Quarterly provides executive leaders with insights from best practices research and the real-world experience of practitioners. The journal’s insights especially equip executives to tackle challenges that cut across the C-suite and affect multiple executive teams. Writers, contributors and data analysts are members of Gartner Business and Technology Insights, whose teams are led by Executive VP Yvonne Genovese. The Gartner Business Quarterly publication is led by Editor-in-Chief Richard Eames, with executive sponsorship by Group VP Scott Christofferson.

Recent Resources