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Report:A Fact-Based Approach To Workforce Technology Needs Assessment

An Empowered Report: Tools To Assess How Employees Use Technology

To have a fact-based conversation about what your employees need from technology, you have to ask them. Field a survey when you absolutely must have the facts without bias. For a quick and dirty...

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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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Blog:ABi (Anything But iPad) Business Tablets Face An Uphill Slog In 2011

No need to revisit the success of iPad. The millions of units sold since April speaks for itself. While most of these have been purchased at retail, many buyers use their tablets for work, often...

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Blog:How Consumerization Drives Innovation

Forrester has been analyzing the impact of consumerization of IT on business since this seminal 2008 report. And we've collected data to measure the phenomemon since 2009. Did you know that...

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Tool:Evaluated Vendors: Product Information And Selection Criteria

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Report:Four Giants Compete For Your Cloud Email Business

Microsoft And Google Lead; IBM's In The Hunt; Cisco's Just Starting Out

Google jumped into the enterprise email market in 2007 with a $50 annual subscription to its cloud email service and turned the market upside down. Microsoft quickly re-evaluated and repriced its...

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Blog:The Mobile Power Shift Will Accelerate In 2013

Happy New Year! I love holidays because the fog of daily work lifts and important things become clearer. This year, over Christmas, what became suddenly and sparkingly clear is that mobile’s...

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Report:The State Of Workforce Technology Adoption: Global Benchmark 2012

Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs

CIOs are responsible for the technology tools and services that make employees productive and successful at work. Too often, the CIO organization must make decisions about devices, software licenses,...

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Blog:iPad Mini And iPad 4th Generation Fulfill A Market Mandate -- What CIOs Need To Know

Apple mastered the role of mass market volume and the role of the content ecosystem when it took iPod down market with the iPod Mini in 2004 and iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano in 2005, even as it...

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Blog:GSA Picks Google Apps: What It Means

The General Services Administration made a bold decision to move its email and collaboration systems to the cloud. In the RFP issued last June, it was easy to see their goals in the statement of...

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Blog:Get Empowered Free On Kindle Through September 10th

[Update: 3:15pm, 9-7-2010. Sigh. This is a US-only offer. My apologies to colleagues and friends in other countries. I'm told you can buy it on Amazon.com in other countries, at least in hard...

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Mobile Collaboration, Q3 '11

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Collaboration, Q3 2011

Mobile collaboration means putting collaboration workloads onto all-important smartphones and tablets, then delivering a great user experience anywhere, anytime, on any device. This is a high bar to...

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Report:Charter A Mobility Council With Seven Tasks

Stakeholder Needs: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook

Smartphones, tablets, and the rise of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs have put tremendous pressure on IT to revamp and rethink its mobile strategy: everything from procurement and development...

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Blog:MacBook Air: The Ultra Ultrabook And Business Windows, Too

I've been testing the MacBook Air for five months now. I use it for work and for home. At work, I run our corporate image Windows XP with the attendant applications and security...

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Report:How Consumerization Drives Innovation

Your Technology And Culture Create An Environment Of Empowered Employees

Consumerization — employees using devices, applications, and web services without permission — is a threat to the status quo and a risk to the security of the firm. But it's also a key...

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Blog:Zimbra Appliance: VMWare Executes On Cloud-Based Email

VMWare has got it down: Sell a virtualization solution with anchor applications (and seats) that no service provider can live without, starting with email. This is the call we made when VMWare bought...

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Blog:7 Mobile Engagement Pitfalls To Avoid: And 7 Mobile-First Alternatives

Mobile apps have the thorny problem of needing to work spectacularly and safely on any device over the last wireless mile. Systems integrators, interactive agencies, software vendors, and your own...

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Report:How iPads Enter The Workforce

An Empowered Report: Tablets Open Doors To New Mobile Scenarios

iPad has exploded onto the scene. Who could have imagined that a tablet (a category introduced in 2001) would capture the imagination of employees and IT alike? But it did, and it's kicked off an...

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Blog:Should Companies Allow Employees To Use Cloud-Hosted File Sync/Share Solutions? Yes, With Precautions.

  The Wall Street Journal published a point-counterpoint article on cloud-hosted file sync/share solutions like Dropbox, Google Docs, and myriad others. They chose a title I wouldn't have...

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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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Blog:Mobilize Your Collaboration Strategy

Here's the 411 on that: 1. We published a new report called, you guess it, "Mobilize Your Collaboration Strategy." It describes eight collaboration apps that employees need, crave, want, and are...

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Blog:What Microsoft's Skype Deal Means: A Post For Content & Collaboration Professionals

I'm not going to comment on the $8.5B purchase price, though I'm sure Marc Andreesen's investment company is happy with their return. And I'm not going to comment on the impact on...

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Blog:IT Confronts The Splinternet

Just posted an OpEd piece on IT's role in supporting the Splinternet. The Splinternet is a lot like the Internet except that it's fragmented by devices and passwords (and media formats and...

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Tool:Evaluated Vendors: Product Information And Selection Criteria