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Assessment: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
A potentially challenging but important first step in establishing a best-practice sourcing strategy for telecommunications and mobility services involves identifying the current state of your...
We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years
US CIOs remain torn between their need to invest in new mobile, cloud, and smart technologies and their fear of encountering economic doldrums (or worse). Over the past two and a half years, these...

Landscape: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report defines and dissects the intersections and future directions of the solutions that make up the business technology (BT) resiliency landscape. It also identifies and catalogs the vendors...

The Info Worker Population Will Grow From 555 Million To 865 Million By 2016, With Growth Markets Leading The Way
Employees that use Internet-connected computing devices for work — info workers — will trample the boundary between work and personal spheres. In this report, we summarize how it came to...

Mobility And Analytics Drive Spending Growth Despite Business Pessimism
What are the 2013 budget plans and priorities for CIOs and other IT decision-makers? Forrester's Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey, Q4 2012 provides insight on the 2013 tech buying...

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,...
How Service Portfolio Management Transitioned Cisco IT To A Partner Player
Cisco's CIO and several of her IT leaders introduced an IT-wide change in how they manage their organization and communicate their performance both within and outside of the IT organization. The...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns,...

The current trend toward shorter, asset-light deals allows offshore providers to compete with the global majors on a more equal footing for all but the largest infrastructure outsourcing (ITO) deals....
Software And IT Consulting Services Have The Best Prospects
The US tech market outlook for vendors is looking brighter for 2012 and 2013, with the US tech market projected to grow by 7.5% in 2012 (7.1% including telecommunications services) and even faster in...

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) for vendor strategists. The report will allow vendor strategists to understand cloud-related market trends...
The Cloud On IT's Horizon
Interest in cloud technology and cloud economics abounds. While the technology delivers immediate reductions in capital costs, Forrester believes that cloud computing's greatest benefits will come...
The primary objective of this document is to provide a comprehensive background of Australia and New Zealand data center market dynamics. It provides an end user perspective to enable vendor...
Business Impact: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders understand the business and IT impact of service management and automation (SMA). Building the...

We want to get the business involved and make sure that the business owners agree that our IT service SLA is good. How should we measure this and hold everyone accountable? What should we measure...
Build/Buy Capabilities: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This Forrester report provides infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders and teams with a methodology to source their tools for effective service management and automation (SMA). This is...

It's Time To Get Back In Shape With These 10 Tips For Improved Drills
If you woke up tomorrow and someone or something compelled you to run a marathon, how would you fare? It's highly doubtful that you would successfully run the 26.2 miles without months of training,...