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Business Case: The Emerging Technology Playbook
The business appetite for new technology to fuel innovation, generate growth, engage with customers, and create differentiation is insatiable. According to our survey data, however, your business is...

Strategic Plan: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
A new era of information agility is upon us that promises an explosion of opportunities similar to that of the dot-com boom period. But these opportunities are completely dependent upon an...

This workbook provides a step-by-step overview of the contents of the High-Performance EA Readiness Toolkit. Use this deck as a primer for completing the Excel-based readiness toolkit and to learn...


Organization: The Business Process Management Playbook
Develop A Business-Centered Enterprise Architecture That Boosts Agility
Faced with continuous change — from technology innovations, new markets, and competitive shifts — businesses must become more agile. Sustainable business agility, the ability to...
Road Map: The Emerging Technology Playbook
Firms increasingly depend on technology to be innovative and disruptive. However, our data indicates that most firms are not doing a good job of getting new technology in the door and ensuring that...

Planning Methods: The EA Method Playbook
In most businesses today, technology has become a strong driver for innovation. The fruits of technology innovation are experienced all across the business model — from the point of customer...
Executive Overview: The EA Method Playbook
Faced with continuous change — from technology innovations, new markets, and competitive shifts — businesses must become more agile. Sustainable business agility, the ability to...

The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
There is a plethora of vendors in the enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) market that, like many EA practices themselves, excel at only a portion of a comprehensive EA practice. It is not...

Focus Your Information Strategy On Business Impact
Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals face the challenge of burgeoning business interest in maximizing the potential of new and existing information assets in the face of immature information...
Vision: The EA Method Playbook
In the midst of continuing economic, political, competitive, and technological disruption over the next decade, your enterprise architecture (EA) practice will flounder unless it gains clear vision...

Enterprise architecture practices have a number of choices to make when deciding where responsibilities land within their organization. Forrester sees an increasing trend for EA leaders to take more...
Processes: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
Information governance ensures that your information management program not only meets technical requirements but also provides the organization with the guarantee that information is reliable,...

Vision: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the...
Assessment: The Emerging Technology Playbook
The pace of business is accelerating; digitized information makes constant change and disruption an ongoing reality. Firms count on emerging technologies to give them a leg up in increasingly...
Executive Overview: The Business Process Management Playbook
In the midst of continuous change — from technology, market, and competitive forces — businesses must become skilled at transforming and inventing new processes while improving their...

Create A Business Architecture Program That Helps Your Business Manage Change
Strategic change initiatives are proliferating in organizations. There may be multiple programs to improve customer experience, co-existing alongside projects to reduce costs, streamline internal...
Organization: The Business Architecture Playbook
This report assists business architecture (BA) leaders in organizing the BA roles and skills needed to successfully execute a business architecture program. One of the major challenges facing...

Benchmarks: The Business Architecture Playbook
Strategic change initiatives are proliferating in organizations. To facilitate execution of these initiatives, firms are investing in business architecture (BA) to help assess and plan them —...
Change Management: The EA Practice Playbook
This report provides an approach to formulating and implementing an enterprise architecture (EA) communication program that eliminates the guesswork and uncertainty that usually surround such...

Executive Overview: The Business Architecture Playbook
Strategic change initiatives are proliferating in organizations. There may be multiple programs to improve customer experience, co-existing alongside projects to reduce costs, streamline internal...

Skills And Staffing: The Business Process Management Playbook
Lack of sufficient business process skills continues to dog progress and momentum for enterprisewide business process management (BPM) initiatives. Yet when it comes to growing BPM skills, most...

Even experienced executives have difficulty in deciding on the right mix of strategic investments. Business architecture leaders can assist executives in making the right decisions through the use of...
Business Impact: The Business Architecture Playbook
This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on business architecture. This report is designed to help you align the strategic...
