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Fellows may be nominated by Gartner employees or by Gartner clients. Selection is based on four criteria: |
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Gartner Fellows are appointed for two years and given the freedom, during that time, to work outside the usual Gartner system to research and develop three to five high-impact ideas. Their work is published as Gartner Research and judged by the response of peers, the press and Gartner clients.
Once active participation is completed, exceptional Fellows can be awarded the title Gartner Fellow Emeritus. Then playing a strategic role, they are sought out for advice and direction, and may return to active Fellow status at any time.
Some leading edge topics that Gartner Fellows are working on include:

Agility: IT and its Impact on Business Performance

Agility: the ability of an enterprise to sense and respond effectively to change in the business environment. Technology plays a key role. Gartner Fellows are at work on a model to identify organizational weaknesses and implement solutions to improve agility.

CIO Primer — How Effective CIOs Lead
 CIOs need to lead like CEOs, analyze like CFOs and execute like COOs. Gartner Fellows are researching how effective CIOs shape and manage expectations and deliver cost-effective services.

How to Capitalize on Emerging Technology Opportunities
 In collaboration with venture capitalists and academics, Gartner Fellows are working to detect and project the business value of emerging trends and technologies along with building a master list of those trends and technologies.

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Gartner Fellows spend their time with the best and the brightest of global innovators and thinkers. Their wide-ranging, one-on-one interviews are must-reads for anyone who needs to be on the leading edge of IT.

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Cloud-based computing will create the biggest discontinuity of the IT landscape since the Internet. We sat down with Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft, to discuss his vision for cloud computing, and the impact on enterprise computing and the IT industry.

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