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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Readiness Assessment For Information Strategy And Architecture Toolkit

Developing a cohesive information strategy that can deliver on current and future business needs is challenging. Building an information architecture is a highly collaborative endeavor, and to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:How To Successfully Set Up IT Infrastructure For Your Business In China

For the thousands of foreign companies that establish business operations in China every year, one of the first things on their to-do lists is setting up IT infrastructure, including horizontal and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Begin BT Strategic Planning With Clear Business Goals

Business Goals: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook

Clear business goals lie at the heart of good strategy. Unfortunately, many organizations have aspirational goals that make strategic planning difficult at best, and they lack the mechanism to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Track Progress Toward High-Performance EA

Performance Management: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the performance management section of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. We designed this report to help...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Who Of Business Technology Decision-Making

The BT Governance Collection: Stakeholders And Structures

Enterprise governance is about decision rights: who has input into decisions, who makes them, how are outcomes measured, and who is held accountable for those outcomes. Business technology (BT)...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Build Your Stepwise Strategy For Business-Centered EA

Strategic Plan: The EA Method Playbook

This report describes the strategic plan of Forrester's EA method playbook — our set of high-value practices that enterprise architects should use to help their organizations plan, architect,...

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Report:Technology Landscape: Metadata Management, Q2 2013

The Foundation For Data Governance, Tooling, And More

Metadata management is the foundation for data governance, management, and use. But despite this, firms have a spotty record of collecting, harmonizing, and managing the metadata inherent in their...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Forrester Wave™: EA Management Suites, Q2 '13

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Forrester Wave™: EAMS Business-Strategy Scenario, Q2 '13

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Forrester Readiness Assessment For High-Performance EA

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Report:Create Agile Processes For Introducing Emerging Technology

Processes: The Emerging Technology Playbook

With its careful approach to planning technology investments and general aversion to risk, IT is not meeting business demands for emerging technology as a driver for innovation and growth. Enterprise...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Craft Your Business Change Delivery Process For Sustainable Business Agility

Implementation And Operation Methods: The EA Method Playbook

IT's traditional approach to delivering business change is broken. Siloed solution delivery projects struggle to keep up with the pace of business. Agile development, lean software, and business...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Transformation Imperative In Financial Services Defies Any Crisis

The Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey Continues To Show A Focus On Transformation

Today's financial services firms often find that their application landscape is no longer able to cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Build Your Skills Development Road Map For Achieving BPM Excellence

Skills And Staffing: The Business Process Management Playbook

Lack of sufficient business process skills continues to dog progress and momentum for enterprisewide business process management (BPM) initiatives. Yet when it comes to growing BPM skills, most...

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Report:Fuse Technology, Innovation, And Business Change In Your Planning Cycle

Planning Methods: The EA Method Playbook

In most businesses today, technology has become a strong driver for innovation. The fruits of technology innovation are experienced all across the business model — from the point of customer...

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Report:Create KPIs That Show The Effectiveness Of Your Information Strategy

Continuous Improvement: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

How effective is your information strategy? You can't answer that question without a comprehensive assessment process and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting mechanism that specifically targets...

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Report:Let The Adjacent Possible Guide Your Information Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

A new era of information agility is upon us that promises an explosion of opportunities similar to that of the dot-com boom period. But these opportunities are completely dependent upon an...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Navigate Digital Disruption With An Emerging Technology Vision

Vision: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Emerging information technology has been a key enabler of business evolution since the 1960s and shows no signs of letting up. As we move beyond simple digitization of information to digital business...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forrester's Business Capability Map Development: Process Guide

How To Develop A Business Capability Map

This PPT shows you how to develop a business capability map. Please see "Forrester's Business Capability Map Development: Tool" to access the tool.

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Cost Of Implementing An EA Management Suite

We are putting together an initial concept request for implementing an EA management software suite. We would like to know a "rough order of magnitude" regarding costs to implement such a solution,...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Business Architecture 2020 — Extending Beyond Organizational Boundaries

Future Look: The Business Architecture Playbook

The rise of business architecture (BA) initiatives has resulted in a rapidly maturing business architecture body of knowledge. Today, business architecture practices focus within the boundaries of a...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Drive Coherence Across Your Diverse Information Architecture Landscape

Landscape: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

The enterprise's ability to manage information strategically is becoming a high priority, but a coherent and comprehensive approach to information in the enterprise is a pipe dream for most...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Architect For The Next Digital Decade

Vision: The EA Method Playbook

In the midst of continuing economic, political, competitive, and technological disruption over the next decade, your enterprise architecture (EA) practice will flounder unless it gains clear vision...

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Report:Assess Your Readiness For A Cohesive Information Strategy And Architecture Program

Assessment: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Information workers thrive or falter depending on their ability to get the information they need quickly and easily, with high confidence that it's the right information. Enterprises need to protect...

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Report:Create A Strategy To Leverage Emerging Technology

Strategic Plan: The Emerging Technology Playbook

For many organizations, the use of emerging technology is confusing, slow, and problematic. Which emerging technologies should be part of IT's standard approach? Which should IT push for business to...

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