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This document outlines the necessary process oriented aspects to measure the performance of a CM program.
This report outlines steps to define, model, and deliver data that is viable for a multitude of use cases whilemaintaining consistency across the organization
This Wave will evaluate vendors on their mobile business intelligence platforms, with criteria related to security, reporting and dashboarding, writeback, etc.
The Organization chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook.
The Assessment Chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook.
The Business Case chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy playbook.
The Organization chapter of the Mobile Banking Strategy playbook.
Peer-to-peer influence is powerful in B2B and CMOs must develop marketing strategies that engage with individuals to not only shape opinion and sentiment about the brand, but cause these individu...
Emerging markets adopt technology differently; charting the leapfrog effect in networks, software, and elsewhere.
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Compare your organization’s market insights maturity to other companies and identify key capabilities gaps to prioritize efforts and investments.
A landscape of the major and innovative eDiscovery vendors, mapped to their strengths across the eDiscovery spectrum.
A new era of information agility is upon us that promises an explosion of opportunities similar to that of the dot-com boom period. This report shows how to justify your information management in...
This report highlights the wide range of content oriented technologies that Forrester covers closely, such as ECM, DAM, MultiChannel Capture, Records Management and Managed Print Services. ...
This report provides concrete ways to establish performance management programs that assess and reward contributionto the business
This document reveals a performance management framework for the organizational aspects of a succesful CM Program.
This document will identify and evaluate the functionality that is provided by Enterprise Content Management software vendors. It will also identify the leading vendors in each segment of t...
With Agile and Lean traditional measures which tend to focus on one set of artifacts, usually technical, are not enough. In fact, Application Development teams need to focus on business value rat...
This document will identify and evaluate the functionality that is provided by Master Data Management software vendors. It will also identify the leading vendors in each seg...
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This is the strategic plan report of the Business Intelligence (BI) playbook for Application Development and Delivery (AD&D) professionals.
This is the Benchmarks report of the Business Intelligence Playbook for Application Development & Delivery professionals.
This report will outline advanced and emerging customer analytics techniques that are helping firms analyze customer data more effectively.
The Assessment chapter of the Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook.
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The Tools And Technology chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy playbook.
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Companies rely on both explicit, or programmatic, loyalty and implicit, or unstructured, loyalty to identify and drive retention, engagement, and profitability from their best customers. This rep...
Lead to Revenue Management can increase revenues and lower costs of sales, but CMOs can struggle to link investment to business value. This reports helps marketing executives calculate and s...
This report will highlight the type of customer metrics to track that a reflective of growth, profitability and customer experience.
Businesses are more vulnerable than ever due accelerating economic conditions, market and consumer shifts, competitive changes, and digital disruption. Business Agility counteracts these challeng...
The wiring of homes energy and entertainment systems will create data "exhaust" that many service providers will seek to leverage.
The report looks into the new opportunities provided by open government data for both new and existing businesses.
How sensor development will be a key element of making computing systems more aware of their surroundings.
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The report streamlines the main fundings of our annual survey of network decision-makers, yielding insight into future plans for mobility, M2M, device management, and other priori...
As companies move to more process-oriented organization and activity, a new executive role will emerge.
Updated economic outlook for global technology spending, 2013-14.
The advent of smart cities represents a powerful opportunity for IT service providers.
The focus of the wave is the early-stage aspect of embracing OTT communication services for business. It will help the CIO to answer questions like: Which over-the- top communication services sho...
This report outlines the steps loyalty marketers must take to build a road map for improving their customer loyalty program. It will help you prioritize the most important investments for making ...
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The Road Map chapter of the Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook.
This report outlines how to create an organization that has all the talent and skill sets needed for successful implementation and ongoing implementation of a CRM initiative. It will also discuss...
Success with customer analytics requires a concerted effort by the firm to use existing resources as well as invest in future people, processes, and tools. This report will guide the business cas...
Offer management, and more specifically targeted offer management, plays a critical role in the success of loyalty programs. This report will explore the ins and outs of sophisticated offer manag...
This report will help digital media buyers understand how they stack up to peer organizations and provide recommendations for evolving your digital media buying practice.
This report will provide comparative benchmarks for emerging technology adoption
The greatest obstacle for ECM adoption is not about technology but more focused on user acceptance. Defining an effective business case is a key step to influencing user adoption. The...
This document highlights case studies from companies at the forefront of optimizing content management.
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Managing data is as much a facet of business processes and analytics as it is a back-office infrastructure investment. This report explores the convergence of technology to technology andback-off...
This report revisits the success criteria outlined in the planning stage of the playbook (business impact). This research provides a mechanism to determine how well the IA program measures ...
This report defines the roles, responsibilities, processes and procedures for managing trusted content, in light of significant changes in the environment, such as cloud computing, an...
The Business Case chapter of the Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook.
How to build a framework of metrics and KPIs based on roles, responsibilities, and processes.
This report will answer the following: what are best practices for running critical processes associated with business technology resiliency, including the business impact analysis, risk ass...
This report will walk readers through the steps of developing a performance management plan for your emerging technology program.
This report outlines Forrester's solution for developing effective objectives and metrics to measure your IAM initiatives.
Current IT Service Desk metrics do not provide a full indication of success. The 'age of the customer' demands an approach that assess the end users/internal IT customers experience in regards to...
This report will discuss the long-term evolution after incorporating emerging technology into your EA program.
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The Performance management chapter of the Agile Commerce Playbook.
The financial model backing a loyalty program sets the stage for profitability and success. This report will explore common financial models for loyalty programs and maximizing a program's ROI.
The Continuous Improvement chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook.
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This report will help AD&D pros manage their performance.
This is the change management report of the Business Intelligence (BI) playbook for Application Development & Delivery (AD&D) professionals.
This report will help AD&D pros to organize their mobile teams or units
This document will help AD&D pros define their mobile road map strategy.
The Benchmarks chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook.
Forrester uses the TechRadar methodology to make projections a decade into the future of the use of technologies in a given category. This TechRadar will focus on "data killing" technologies such...
Too many organizations view PCI as an undue and unjust burden. Forrester holds the opposite view, we believe that PCI incentivizes security. It forces executives to take security seriously and un...
Forrester surveyed senior marketers about the progress marketing had made toward becoming customer-driven across five key areas: strategy organization, measurement, data &analytics, and CRM t...
The customer analytics journey requires deliberate steps to advance across key dimensions such as analytics maturity, technology implementation and use case development for activating insights. T...
Shopper marketing as a discipline has gotten a lot of attention, both new and renewed, from CMOs as the division of marketing closest to the consumer as she completes purchases offline. As the na...
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This report will describe key metrics used to measure the value and peformance of your business architecture initiative.
This report discusses a timeline and associated roadmap for rolling out its CRM strategy, including what key aspects of the strategy to tackle first, timeline, and milestones.
This report discusses business outcomes companies look to achieve with digital experience technologies, potential revenue/cost savings opportunities, and setup and operational costs. It will also...
This report discusses a timeline and associated roadmap for rolling out its digital experience technologies strategy, including what key aspects of the strategy to tackle first, timeline, and mil...
Forrester’s research shows that consumers demand more from brands in the 21st Century. Marketers now have a steeper hill to climb to earn consumers’ brand preference, referral a...
To defend against the mutating nature, complexity, and methods of today’s attacks, you will need an arsenal of security controls, processes and services. And everyday, new solutions emerge that p...
This report introduces the key concepts in the data management playbook. It provides a proposed framework to discover opportunity, plan, act, and optimize data management practices for digital fi...
Current networks rely on numerous security devices and controls to protect the network and its data. These include firewalls, IPS, WAF, NAC, content filtering gateways, network access control, VP...
Failure of corporations to comply with regulations and to manage risks puts customers, employees, communities, and shareholders at risk on a daily basis.
Selecting the right vendor for your IT services needs is becoming increasingly important, as the solutions in the IT services marketplace evolve and change, and the importance of strong business ...
There are many benefits associated with software virtualization and the majority of Forrester clients have already started their virtualization journey. But like any licensing metric, the ...
Forrester applies its Website Functionality Benchmark to Health Plan Websites.
The Performance Management chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook.
This report will update the 2011 market overview in light of acquisitions in the space. It will define the enterprise search landscape today and briefly cover leading vendors strengths and ...
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Mobile engagement, particularly in customer-facing processes, requires deep changes to strategy, brand expression, experience design, application development and delivery, and operations. And fir...
53% of IT professionals surveyed consider increased investment in collaboration to be a high or critical priority. Business expectations are high and so are the stakes for the CIO. New technologi...
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This is the processes report of the Business Intelligence playbook for Application Development & Delivery (AD&D) professionals. What processes are in place to support the following stages...
The Organization chapter of the Retail eCommerce Playbook.
Backup and recovery is the base technology that many business technology resiliency plans are built on. This wave evaluation will look at the top providers of data center backup and recovery soft...
Based on a survey of BMA membership, Marketing's role has expanded dramatically beyond interactions with Sales and Product Management, crossing over into all aspects of the business. This report ...
Companies need a human resource management (HRM) strategy that focuses on finding and developing successful employees who meet company goals and are supported -- not only by traditional transacti...
This report will discuss the long-term evolution of a business architecture program.
A “how to” guide that spans business case, strategic objectives and organizational definition.
The Road Map chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook.
Chinese websites don’t look very much like their western counterparts. But as the principles of effective site design become more well-known, don’t expect Chinese sites to fully adopt...
Your business keeps changing, and so must your business applications keep changing. This report will identify best practices for how to make decisions and set roadmaps and life cycles for ongoing...
Digital technology is poised to transform the retail experience. As many retailers struggle to maintain costly store estates, eBusiness executives have an opportunity to play a leading role in re...
This report will discuss the key skills, staff, and organizational structures needed for watching and adopting emerging technology.
This report describes the importance of Google Glass for marketers.
Nearly all business transformations today are technology dependent and focus on breaking traditional business silos. These are high risk/high complexity projects that require knowledge of technol...
Analytics initiatives are becoming front and center for firms wanting to derive more value from their customer data, and as a result, a strategic priority for many firms. This report will highlig...
When elevating listening beyond social, it is crucial to work with the right software and services providers. This report outlines the service provider landscape to help firms understan...
Data management has to assume an empowered business technology model to provide an agile foundation. An inside out only view will not support business agility in a digitally focused and consumeri...
Gathering market intelligence about your software suppliers is a sourcing best practice, as it empowers your negotiations and ensures you know what to ask for and when. It’s easier to do to...
This report will show the behaviors of today's consumers and their multi-channel habits.
Our annual survey of information workers offers insights into their preferences and uses of technology.
Forrester clients often face a hybrid challenge with customer-facing websites: optimizing both security and user experience. The tightest security can be a usability disaster, and the most user-f...
How corporate and service-provider data centers will evolve over the next 5 years.
Successful CMOs of the future will be dynamic leaders that anticipate the tight integration of technology and marketing objectives and know how to navigate through the technology landscape to cre...
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In an increasingly connected world, it’s not surprising that over three quarters of the US population are banking online on a PC: checking their account balances, transferring funds, or pay...
How big data accelerates companies' move to more process-driven strategy and action.
How networks, software, and sensors will combine to create computing services that are ubiquitous and invisible.
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Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is using iPads and social technology to transform the way Team Members serve guests and master the job. CIO and SVP of business transformation, Chris Laping, takes a ver...
This report is designed to help Enterprise Architects avoid roadblocks to maintain agility in their data environment.
By far the largest and most populated country in South America, Brazil’s presence on the world stage continues to win global attention and inspire awe with as must flair as Adriana Lima working t...
Successful coalition loyalty programs like Nectar and Airmiles cover a majority share of consumer spend and offer a neutral currency and loyalty card across multiple partners, covering grocery, f...
This report discusses how to lay out a successful plan for a CRM initiative. Included are a checklist for creating the strategic plan, pitfalls to avoid, and examples of other companies’ strategi...
In the past 18 months, the buzz and momentum surrounding tech accelerator programs in the US has exploded, and now more than 100 tech accelerators dot the country. This boom is not only great for...
It’s no longer a question of whether technology plays a role in marketing, but rather what role the CMO needs to play in selecting the best solution to drive marketing, and overall business...
Back in 2009, Forrester created the first version of mobile POST — a methodology to help our clients create mobile strategies that align well with the mobile sophistication of their custome...
This template is intended to help you build an RFP for MPLS IP VPN services. It should be treated as a starting point only, to be tailored to fit your specific needs, including adding and removin...
Business capability maps have become an essential tool for business architects. They represent a holistic view of the capabilities required by an organization to deliver its value proposition to ...
Your company's core relationship with its customers is being transformed by technology. In the "age of the customer," organizations that harness digital technologies to understand and engage with...
This PPT shows you how to develop a business capability map. Please see "Forrester's Business Capability Map Development: Tool" to access the tool.

Too many marketing leaders still lump tablets and smartphones in the same mobile bucket. That's a mistake. Why? Because tablets are not primarily mobile devices. Instead, they are mostly used wit...
Spending on paid search and search engine optimization (SEO) for each of the 17 Western European countries. Segments paid search spending by 11 different verticals. Includes histor...
Forrester expects companies will spend more than $1 billion in 2013 on expanding, upgrading, or replacing their ePurchasing systems. While most will reap significant benefits from their investmen...
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