Insights, guidance and tools to enable you to drive growth through product innovation.
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What Is Gartner for Research & Development?
How we support your priorities
Assess Your Current State
Benchmark against peers and diagnose improvement areas to allocate and prioritize resources.
Develop Your Strategic Plan
Make informed decisions and gain C-suite buy-in with expert guidance, objective research and lessons from peers.
Execute and Drive Change
Save time and deliver measurable results by using proven tools, templates and peer examples.
Stay Ahead of the Curve
Keep up to date with the latest trends and what peers are doing with must-attend events and peer connections.
View sample engagement plans
Each sample engagement plan shows how a mix of peer connections, expert guidance, tools and events will help you put insight into action.
What’s included
- Expert Guidance
- Decision Tools
- Must-Attend Events
- Peer Connections
Gartner experts advise R&D leaders like you every day on their mission-critical priorities.
Get benchmarks, assessments and guides to drive stronger performance.
Gartner research & development webinars cover today’s key issues and emerging trends. Learn from experts, get inspired by thought leaders, discover technology solutions and connect with peers to share ideas, lessons learned and best practices.
The Secrets to Successful Technology Roadmapping
Best Practices for R&D Leaders to Build a Robust Portfolio
Top Strategies for R&D Leaders to Increase Innovation Adoption
Get access to a community of industry leaders who have the right experience to help. Follow peer-led discussions and polls on best practices, trending topics, and technology ratings and reviews to support your mission-critical priorities.
What are the benefits?
Direct Cost Savings
Our benchmarks help you invest in the right innovation opportunities for timely and cost-effective transformation.
Decision Speed
Rely on proven solutions based on the successful approaches of hundreds of R&D organizations to help you make smarter decisions, faster.
Budget Justification
Secure funding for key initiatives and staff using our annual budget and spend benchmarks tailored for your organization.
Risk Mitigation
Use real-time visibility into evolving approaches, lessons learned and data from peer companies.
Execution Speed
Equip your team with customizable tools, frameworks and templates to speed execution of key initiatives and deliver faster results for the organization.
Extension of Your Staff
Our R&D experts and insights can help you tackle your priorities across the year.
How Gartner clients have achieved success
- Manufacturing Company
- Chemicals Company
- Manufacturing Company
Client
Manufacturing Company
~$1.6 Billion (Revenue)
Developed a set of metrics that would drive insight to the leadership team and deliver value back to key stakeholders.
Benchmarked metric selection against R&D peers and provided advisory support to decide on only the few most important metrics that would drive meaning to the team’s portfolio strategy and process.
Saved four months’ worth of time by operationalizing a process for metric selection, cutting the team’s metric count from 25 to the five most insightful metrics.
Client
Chemicals Company
>$14 Billion (Revenue)
Created a compelling plan for the R&D function’s digital transformation rollout to gain stakeholder buy-in and budget approval.
Roadmapped a digital transformation plan and provided benchmarking data on average spend for technology purchasing and implementation in R&D.
Gained stakeholder buy-in for R&D transformation efforts and secured a budget of $6 million over two years for a digital transformation rollout.
Client
Manufacturing Company
>$10 Billion (Revenue)
Constructed a training program for the company’s global R&D team to develop future leaders of the organization who possess an “innovator mindset.”
Mapped out, facilitated and helped lead the director’s Innovator Mindset training program for organizational rollout.
Successfully built an Innovator Mindset training program, then aggregated session results to identify development areas.
