Analyst Spotlight on…David Mitchell Smith

David Mitchell Smith is a vice president and Gartner Fellow in Gartner Research, where he specializes in the impact of catalytic technologies such as the Internet, Web 2.0, cloud computing and consumer technologies. During his 13-plus years at Gartner, he has played a leadership role in several of the company’s efforts in these areas, including [...]

Analyst Spotlight on…Kurt Potter

Mr. Potter is a research director for the IT finance and metrics team, within the Gartner CIO Research Group, where he creates insightful, actionable fact-based research focused on business and IT performance. This includes trends and metrics related to cost optimization and the economy, IT spending, IT productivity, vertical industries, and business processes, as well [...]

Analyst Spotlight on . . . Simon Mingay

Mr. Mingay, a research vice president in Gartner Research, is currently researching environmental sustainability issues associated with the use of information and communications technology. He has researched and written extensively on issues related to the management of IT, such as the evolving IS organization, business/IT alignment, governance, service management, ITIL, process improvement, disaster recovery and [...]