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Daniel B. Stang is a Vice President Analyst at Gartner, covering strategic portfolio management (SPM), enterprise program and portfolio management (EPPM), and adaptive project management and reporting (APMR). His expertise includes creating processes for and leveraging strategy realization, enterprise program and portfolio management, project portfolio management, and adaptive project management for continuous delivery. Mr. Stang leverages his expertise in these areas to help Gartner clients define, scale, and harvest desired business outcomes using SPM principles and best practices.

Mr. Stang is a Key Initiative Leader for Gartner's SPM practice area. He defines the SPM research vision for his team, and helps guide the Gartner SPM team in creating breakthrough, provocative, and pragmatic research deliverables supporting the needs of business and IT leaders pursuing digital business.

As part of a continuous research process, Mr. Stang guides SPM-related and APMR-related market research coverage at Gartner. Mr. Stang has led and authored multiple Magic Quadrant and Market Guides related to the SPM and APMR for more than 20 years as a Gartner analyst.

As part of his duties, Mr. Stang helps Gartner clients define SPM and APMR processes for their organizations and create strategies for automating them. He can help clients build SPM and APMR technology shortlists based on their specific needs. His research also includes strategy roadmaps for domain specific PMOs and enterprise PMOs.

Mr. Stang also provides consulting and strategic advisory services for a number of technology providers operating in the SPM and APMR markets.

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