Holiday Spirit
Analyzing Analysts
Clients in the News
ToEtally ToEs
Technically Correct: GenAI
100

Per a recent holiday fad, this “spy” hides around the house, reporting back to Santa on who has been naughty and nice

What is Elf on a Shelf?

100

Prior to joining Gartner, this analyst was with Mercer. They now lead the Mercer Report analysis.

Who is Lily Mok?

100

This Germany-based client has been dealing with an "Activist Investor", creating challenges for the CEO.

What is Pfizer?

100

This ToE has been known to go on a "rampage" at Orange Theory.

Who is Mackizzle?

100

AI techniques that learn from representations of data and model artifacts to generate new artifacts.

What is Generative AI?

200

This 1985 classic novel is about a train that carries kids to the North Pole on Christmas Eve

What is the Polar Express?

200

This analyst was formerly a CEB advisor, and how supports the CIO research team.

Who is Christiane Groth?

200

The family who owns this client also have majority ownership in the Denver Broncos.

What is Wal-Mart?

200

This ToE has a very cool leather jacket, which they often wear for weekend motorcycle rides.

Who is Gia?

200

Data that is artificially generated and used as a proxy for real data in a wide variety of use cases including data anonymization, AI and machine learning development, data sharing and data monetization.

What is Synthetic Data?

300

This classic Christmas movie had several shots filmed in Breckenridge, CO., including the famous "Tree Cutting" scene.

What is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation?

300

Gartner's Chief of Research

Who is Chris Howard?

300

This client recently debuted a new holiday flavor, Zero Sugar Gingerbread, with Shaquille O'Neil on TikTok.

What is Pepsi?

300

This ToE attended a sales conference this year to support recruiting top talent.

Who is Bim?

300

The craft of designing and optimizing user requests to an LLM or LLM-based chatbot to get the most effective result, often achieved through significant experimentation.

What is Prompt Engineering?

400

English speakers know this song as “O Christmas Tree?”, but in the original German it is known as _____.

What is “O Tannenbaum”?

400

Prior to becoming an analyst on the CIO Research team, they were a CSM supporting Executive Programs clients.

Who is Jose Ramirez?

400

This client's heart pumps are now approved to treat pediatric patients.

What is J&J?

400

This ToE was part of the Adjunct faculty at a Public University, where they taught Entrepreneurship.

Who is Steve?

400

A unit of content corresponding to a subset of a word.

What are Tokens?

500

This artist's recording of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” topped the U.S. charts in 1949.

Who is Gene Autry?

500

Their popular book, "The Wolf in CIOs Clothing" deals with the "dark side" of organizational politics.

Who is Tina Nunno?

500
This client recently cancelled their plan to cap anesthesia coverage for surgeries, following events in industry news.

What is Elevance?

500

This ToE is a huge Harry Potter fan, and annually argues with their spouse whether the movies are considered "Christmas movies".

Who is Chrissy?

500

A prompt chaining method where each prompt in a series of successive prompts builds on the prior prompt’s results to build to a final result.

What is Chain of Thought?