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Report:Build A Financial Plan That Supports BT Strategy

Budgets: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook

Understanding the difference between the costs to run the business and the costs to grow or change the business is crucial to effective technology investment budgeting. In addition, the way these...

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Tool:On-Site Versus Hosting Versus Cloud Scenario Sensitivity Analysis

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Tool:Baseline On-Site Costs For 100 VM Workloads

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Report:Understand The True Cost Of Cloud Services

Budgeting And Planning: The Cloud Computing Playbook

Forrsights surveys show that enterprises are turning to the cloud for speed and lower cost — but are the savings really there? The answer isn't always obvious; it might be that your internal...

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Report:Perspectives On Asia's BT Journey

Insights From Asian CIOs At Forrester's CIO Summit APAC 2012

CIOs in Asia face an inconvenient truth: transform or be overwhelmed by the forces of change. These forces include the consumerization of IT, "everything-as-a-service," enterprise mobility, big data,...

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Tool:Baseline Cloud Computing Costs For 100 VM Workloads

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Report:Build A Mobile Engagement Dashboard

Performance Management: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Mobile will touch and change everything in your business — from the way your sales reps use catalogs on iPads to engage customers at the point of sale to the way your finance team empowers your...

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Report:Monitor The Performance Of Your Social Business And Collaboration Program

Performance Management: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

The benefits of improved information sharing and collaboration from deploying enterprise social computing are hard to quantify. With the exception of email and audioconferencing, collaboration...

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Report:Winning The Customer Experience Game

Best Practices For CIOs

Customer experience (CX) is too often thought of in terms of the IT help desk. But CIOs and their IT teams are increasingly being challenged with improving the customer experience for the...

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Report:Measuring BT Governance Outcomes Through Balanced Scorecards

The BT Governance Collection: Communications

Implementing strong business technology (BT) governance is on the agenda for many organizations as they continue the seemingly endless pursuits of aligning IT and business strategy, getting more...

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Report:Benchmark The Use Of Your Social Business And Collaboration Systems

Benchmarks: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Social business and collaboration (SBC) takes place independently of any specific technology, tool, or service. For example, employees constantly meet to choose how to adjust plans; customers...

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Report:Measure And Manage The Innovation Process

Performance Management: The Innovation Playbook

In today's rapidly changing global marketplace, an organization's innovation process is critical to competitive survival, regardless of the industry. Innovation takes many forms ranging from small,...

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Report:Benchmarking Mobile Engagement: Consumers And Employees Outpace CIOs' Readiness

Benchmark: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Are you ready to serve your mobile customers on the device of their choice? Have you anticipated what apps they need next? And for employees, which apps are most important on smartphones? How many...

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Report:Develop Cloud Metrics Using The Balanced Scorecard

Performance Management: The Cloud Computing Playbook

This report outlines the performance management of Forrester's solution for CIOs working on developing effective objectives and metrics for their organization's cloud strategy. Crafting and measuring...

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Report:Building BT Governance Capabilities — A Practitioners' Perspective

The BT Governance Collection: Practitioners' Experiences

As technologies and markets change rapidly, senior executives need to revisit traditional IT governance. They need to identify and deploy next-generation practices to support the CIO's transition...

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Tool:Traditional Virtual Server Hosting Costs For 100 VM Workloads

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Report:CIOs Are Not Ready To Support Business Innovation

Benchmarks: The Innovation Playbook

While innovation is a hot topic among most of the organizations we work with, our recent survey of IT leaders indicates that a minority of firms have formalized their practices and processes. Only...

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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:Measure The Effectiveness Of The Strategic Planning Process

Performance Management: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook

The ultimate judges of any strategic planning process are the business technology (BT) users who need to produce business benefits with the technology. The goals, desires, and needs of this group are...

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Report:Measure BT Strategic Planning Outcomes

Benchmarks: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook

This report is designed to help CIOs measure and report on the outcomes realized through the BT strategic plan. Specifically, it demonstrates how to link IT initiatives from the strategic plan to the...

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Report:The Future Of Business Technology Governance

The BT Governance Collection: Principles And Strategies

"Good" technology governance is business technology (BT) governance — a conscious effort by senior executives to establish strategies, structures, processes, and measurements for the management...

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