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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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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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Report:Executive Overview: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Executive Overview: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

CIOs have a deep responsibility to lead their company's journey to a world where billions of customers, partners, and employees wield touchscreen mobile devices. CIOs will need to expand their...

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Report:The State Of Workforce Technology Adoption: US Benchmark 2011

How US Information Workers Adopt And Use Technology

This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's Q2 2011 US Workforce Technology And Engagement Online Survey of 4,985 US information workers. Armed with this baseline data from every US industry,...

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Report:CIO: The Future Of Mobile Is Context

Building A Foundation To Enable Next-Generation Mobile Services

CIOs that Forrester interviewed understand the potential of context and are building the foundational infrastructure needed to support the use of context across consumer touchpoints — not just...

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Report:Consumerization Drives Smartphone Proliferation

Employees' Choices And Dollars Dictate The Rise Of Android And Apple Devices

More than half of US information workers pay for their smartphones and monthly plans, and three-quarters pick the smartphone they want rather than accept IT's choice. What does consumerization's...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Web Conferencing, Q2 2010

Adobe, Cisco, IBM, And Microsoft Lead In The Web Meeting Scenario

In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of Web conferencing vendors, we found that traditional vendors Adobe, Cisco, IBM Sametime, and Microsoft's two offerings led the pack because of their breadth...

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Report:Build An Operations Stairway To The Mobile Future

Take Seven Steps Now Under The Charter Of A Mobility Council

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

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Report:Assess Your Empowered Maturity

An Empowered Report: An Empowered Maturity Model Drives The Conversation

Does your organization empower employees to solve the problems of empowered customers? If not, why not? What do you need to do? To build momentum on your empowered initiatives, first get everybody on...

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Report:The CIO's Role In The Social Business Policy

Policy And Procedures: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

A clear social business policy is an essential guide for employees using social and collaboration tools for customer engagement and for internal or partner collaboration. While it takes a...

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Report:Welcome To The Empowered Era

An Empowered Report: Reinvent Yourself To Serve Empowered Customers And Employees

Your customers and your employees have more power than ever before. Mobile, social, video, and cloud technologies give individuals tremendous access to information and resources. To succeed in an era...

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Report:2013 Mobile Workforce Adoption Trends

More BYOD, More Devices, More Mobility, More Apple

Have we hit peak bring-your-own-device (BYOD)? Which apps are most important on smartphones? How many employees are interested in Windows tablets? Do employees use mobile devices for work more at...

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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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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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Report:Office 2013: A Breakthrough In Productivity

Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In

Microsoft looks to strike three very familiar chords with the release of Office 2013: mobile, social, and cloud. Each has become table stakes for enterprise software, and in order for Microsoft to...

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Report:CIOs: Master The Mobile Banking Imperative

The Mobile Banking Imperative

This report, written for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, is also relevant to CIOs and other IT leaders. CIOs at every bank face major changes as consumers move their banking activities...

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Report:SlideShare Ties Conferencing To Millions Of Slides

More Than A Million Shared Slides Get An Audio And Video Facelift; Consumerization Gets Another Injection; IT Gets Another Vendor To Track

Why does the world need yet another webconferencing vendor? Because the existing solutions don't deliver all the value that your employees crave at a price you can afford. SlideShare has answered the...

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Report:The Business Impact Of Mobile Engagement

Business Case: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Smartphones and tablets are game changers for engagement because people carry them everywhere they go. Your customers and partners and employees have perpetual access to the vast resources of the...

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Report:Analyze What Your Social Business And Collaboration Stakeholders Really Need

Stakeholder Needs: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Too often, firms launch social business and collaboration programs without a clear understanding of what key stakeholders, including business sponsors and especially employees, want. The result is...

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Report:The Road To Social Business Transformation Starts With A Burning Platform

Road Map: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Social business technology can transform the way employees work by eliminating barriers to collaboration, improving customer engagement, and accelerating the flow of information and ideas. But even...

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Report:Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement: An Executive Summary

This report summarizes the 28-page Forrester report "Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement." By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers. However,...

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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:Executive Q&A: Tablets In The Enterprise In 2011

Answering Your Questions About Tablets, Security, Apps, And More

In just 12 months, iPad has redefined expectations of what a computer should be: instant-on, highly portable, all-day batteries, always-connected, and app-driven. And Apple has sold 15 million iPads...

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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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Report:Seven Mobile Engagement Pitfalls To Avoid

And Seven Mobile-First Alternatives That Are Better

Great mobile experiences are built on systems of engagement, and that means spending money on new engagement technology. Mobile apps have the thorny problem of needing to work spectacularly and...

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