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Blog:Google Ends Wave: What Lessons Collaboration Tech Product Managers And Marketers Can Learn

Yesterday (August 5), Google announced that it was ceasing attempts to make Google Wave a viable standalone product. Considering the fanfare that the product received in the run-up to its general...

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Blog:SAS Uses Social Collaboration To Keep Employees Connected And Engaged

My colleague Ted Schadler and I published several case studies in our recent report, "The Road To Social Business Transformation Starts With A Burning Platform." What follows is one of those stories...

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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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Report:Case Study: State Street Gives Workers Scheduling Flexibility And Reaps Business Benefits

Giving Employees Choice As To When And Where They Work Helps Recruiting, Retention, Team Work, And Sustainability Efforts

In 2009, State Street, a Boston-based financial services firm, created its Flex Work Program to recruit and retain top talent. Why? State Street's leaders felt that finding and holding on to these...

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Report:Portrait Of A Government Information Worker

Governments Are Playing Catch-Up In Terms Of Mobility And Collaboration

North American and European governments are striving for efficiency, openness, and responsiveness as their constituencies increasingly organize and mobilize using social technologies. However,...

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Report:Answer Five Questions When Selecting A Cloud Collaboration And Productivity Suite

A Buyer's Guide For Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps For Business, And IBM SmartCloud For Social Business

Over the past two years, Forrester clients have shown great interest in the cloud collaboration and productivity suites Microsoft, Google, and IBM offer: We've fielded more than 150 inquiries on this...

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Blog:Symantec Engages Customers And Prospects Through A Social Media Command Center

My colleague Ted Schadler and I published several case studies in our recent report, "The Road To Social Business Transformation Starts With A Burning Platform." What follows is one of those stories...

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Blog:If You're Not Helping Lay The Foundation For A Social Business, You Need To Start Now

The movement of information is key to today's global economy. Companies like General Electric send their design concepts to countries like India, allowing developers there to localize products to...

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Blog:Choosing Between Microsoft Office 365 And Google Apps Hinges On Your Belief In The Vendor's Vision

Over the last couple of years, I've fielded a number of inquiries from Forrester clients who are trying to decide whether their company should move their email and other collaboration workloads...

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Report:Helping Information Workers Find The Value In Collaboration Tools

Forrester's Convenience Quotient Weighs The Benefits And Drawbacks Of Tools To Predict What Technologies Employees Will Use

Content and collaboration (C&C) professionals are helping their businesses deploy a number of tools to keep information workers connected and productive. However, Forrester data consistently shows...

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Report:CIOs Must Champion Engaging Employee Experiences

CIOs' Focus On The Workforce Experience Aligns Technology With Strategies To Engage And Motivate Productive Workers

Innovative products and services plus a laser focus on the customer are the engines of growth in the information economy. To succeed, business leaders must recruit, develop, and sustain an engaged...

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Blog:Social technologies: Standalone Applications Or Features?

During CScape at Cisco Live, one of the more interesting conversations I had started with a simple question: Is social software (and collaboration software in general) a set of standalone...

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Report:Measure Workforce Experience Through Engagement, Productivity, And Customer Impact

Customer experience — its relationship to loyalty and satisfaction and the likelihood that it will lead to future business — is now a well-established discipline. However, measuring...

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Report:Psion Embraces Intercompany Collaboration As A Core Part Of Its Business

Social Software Plugs Partners And Customers Into The Product Development Process

Psion, a manufacturer of ruggedized handheld devices, has made intercompany collaboration core to its business. Psion CEO John Conoley and CMO Nick Eades have partnered in recent years to turn around...

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Client Inquiry:How Do Government Agencies Handle Web 2.0?

Is Web 2.0 (wikis, blogs etc. for both internal use for employees and external stakeholders) common in government agencies, especially compared to private industries? What are the trends? Does being...

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Blog:Microsoft's Office 365 Allows Flexibility In Enterprise Collaboration Technology Strategies

Yesterday morning (June 28), I , along with a small group of Microsoft customers, partners, and members of the technology and business press, sat in a SoHo, NY, gallery to listen to Microsoft CEO...

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Blog:Online Collaboration Tools Address A New Set Of Business Challenges, But Are They Ready For Your Business?

Today, we published our first Forrester Wave™ on the cloud strategies of online collaboration software vendors, evaluating how eight vendors -- Box, Cisco Systems, Citrix Online, Google, IBM,...

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Blog:Product Managers Take Note: Microsoft Is Using Serious Games To Product Test (And You Can Too)

Last Friday (September 17), I published a case study of Microsoft's Windows and Office Communicator (now Microsoft Lync) teams' use of "productivity games." What are productivity games? Put...

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Blog:Yes, Gamification Can Help Your Business Internally

Happy New Year, everyone. As I customarily do, I'm looking back on 2011 with an eye toward emerging trends that bear watching. In the latter half of last year, I started to receive a lot of...

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Blog:For Small SaaS Vendors, The Benefit Of A Free Tier Is To Attract Partners

Recently, I published a report about a small software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor, Dimdim, which is having success in the crowded Web conferencing market. Like many small vendors, Dimdim provides a...

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Blog:"Anywhere, Anytime" Work Means IT Must Provide The Right Technology, To The Right Person, At The Right Time

Giving workers flexibility in when, where, and how they work is a hot topic right now. The US federal government has passed legislation to make telecommuting easier and multinational firms, like...

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Report:Globally Competitive Markets Demand Businesses Collaborate Beyond The Firewall

For businesses to remain competitive, they must enable their workers to draw ideas and labor from parties both inside and outside of the company. Employees charged with developing and marketing...

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Blog:Engaged Employees Expect IT Leaders To Understand Their Needs

My colleague Simon Yates and I have spent a good bit of time recently discussing the role of IT in creating engaging experiences for employees. We've proposed that IT leaders concern themselves...

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Client Inquiry:Creating A Mobile Initiative And Remote Work Best Practices

What are some remote working practices and policies, and how do we create a mobile initiative within our company?

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Report:What Gen Y Really Thinks About Your IT Department

Younger Employees Are More Open To Working With IT Than You've Been Led To Believe

Gen Yers — those born between 1980 and 2000 — generate lots of buzz in the business community. Business leaders see this group's affinity for social, collaboration, and mobile...

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