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For CIO Professionals

Report:Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement

CIOs Must Plan Now For New Systems Of Engagement

By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers. Mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken website or a screen-scraped SAP...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Tool:Evaluated Vendors: Product Information And Selection Criteria

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Community Platforms, Q4 2010

Lithium And Jive Lead The Way, With KickApps Close Behind

In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of community platform vendors, we found that Lithium Technologies and Jive Software led the pack because of their mature tool sets and depth of services offered....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The HERO Index: Finding Empowered Employees

Empowered Employees Solve Customer Problems: Find Them And Help Them

Groundswell technologies — social, mobile, video, and cloud — put tremendous power in the hands of customers. Only empowered employees can respond at the speed of empowered customers...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Social Technologies Will Penetrate IT Management Tools

A Tweet or any other status update, by design, is a small packet of information. When collected and put in a business context — particularly complex collaborative situations like IT project...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Tool:Many Companies Do Not Support Innovation Efforts With Proper Management

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: Focus On Users Creates Knowledge Advocates At Woodmen Of The World

Woodmen of the World, a fraternal benefit society that provides insurance and investment products, was consolidating the operations of three divisions into one and needed a solid knowledge management...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Navigating The Online Collaboration Suite Landscape

Moving collaboration workloads to the public cloud is an attractive proposition for content and collaboration professionals and information workers alike. Why? They're inexpensive to stand up and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Social CIO

Future Look: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Free access to and sharing of ideas is the hallmark of the digital age. Today, your customers, partners, and employees can share information to form opinions that can affect your business and, on a...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Five Strategies For Leading Diverse, Distributed Teams To Success

Leading teams is a job not for the faint of heart — particularly when those teams are multicultural, geographically distributed, and composed of individuals who work for multiple companies with...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Case Study: Dimdim Enters The Web Conferencing Market With Smart Product Design And Marketing

Dimdim Points To How Small SaaS Firms Can Thrive In Crowded Markets

Interest in software-as-a-service (SaaS) is heating up; 55% of firms tell us they are deploying the technology, will be deploying it in the next year or so, or are interested in it. In response,...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Seven Business Technology Resiliency Lessons Learned From Superstorm Sandy

Key Takeaways That Can Help You Strengthen Your Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Plans

In late October 2012, Superstorm Sandy barreled through the Caribbean and the eastern US, affecting almost half of the states in the US. The storm left millions without access to basic...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Build Your Workforce Computing Strategic Plan

Strategic Plan: The Workforce Enablement Playbook

Forrester's survey data shows that 50% of firms say investing in systems to improve engagement with customers and partners is a high or critical priority. And few areas of technology are as...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Social Breaks The Logjam On Business Process Improvement Initiatives

An Empowered Report: Empower Process HEROes With The Right Social Techniques And Tools

As business process management (BPM) adoption continues to spread, more business process professionals are tapping social techniques to extend the reach and impact of their process improvement...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Staffing For Social Business And Collaboration Success

Skills And Staffing: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

All too often, IT approaches staffing for social business and collaboration initiatives as it would other IT-led projects. With a focus on providing the best technical solution possible, the...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Case Study: Philips Uses eLearning To Communicate The Benefits Of Net Promoter

Partnership With Jellyvision Lab Leads To An Engaging Training Module

One of the challenges that market insights professionals struggle with is the communication of research results across the organization. The Customer Experience and NPS team at Philips was tasked...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Business Networks Will Push The Cloud Beyond IT

The Evolution Of Multitenancy In The Cloud Is Enabling True Business Technology Innovation

Cloud computing has changed the way that IT computing resources are being delivered and consumed, but this change has yet to really affect companies' underlying business models. Although today's CIOs...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Social Enterprise Apps Redefine Collaboration

Businesses need better productivity tools to equip information workers to be successful. To date, firms have invested in a menagerie of tools — email, instant messaging (IM), voice over...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Coming Soon: The Need To Search Video In The Enterprise

Video is not a fringe format anymore. Increasingly, information workers consume video in the workplace for training purposes, technical help, and real-time communication with colleagues and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Competitive Advantage Through Social Business

Executive Overview: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Business as we know it is changing. The next generation of market-leading organizations will digitize their enterprise model with new capabilities enabled by social technologies. But many of today's...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Tool:Human Capital Management (HCM) Software Adoption

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Enter More Social, Mobile, Video, And Cloud: Is Your Infrastructure Ready To Collaborate?

Assessment: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook

This report provides Forrester's maturity assessment for infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals responsible for their firms' communications and collaboration infrastructure. I&O leaders...

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:Forrester Wave™: Activities Streams, Q2 '12

For CIO Professionals

Report:Consumerization Will Erase Boundaries Between Corporate And Consumer Technology Markets

Vendor Strategists Must Overhaul Business Units And Products Aimed At Information Workers

Execs plotting new information and communications technology (ICT) products and services face changing information worker behaviors driven by five innovations that empower users to provision and use...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Process-Driven Business Of 2020

Why And How To Shift From Incremental Improvement To Transformation

Business executives expect the CIO to help continuously improve processes by implementing major software suites, developing new apps, or enhancing existing processes. Spurred by the great recession,...

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