Forrester introduces an end-to-end product that helps CIOs create a strategic vision, turn that into an IT business plan, justify their investments and staffing decisions, and, finally, supports them in measuring business outcomes.

Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs provides data-driven insights about digital business trends, changing customer behaviors, and critical technology developments that empower CIOs to be informed and leading voices in setting business strategy; it also provides peer budget and staffing data that helps CIOs compare and defend key investment and staffing decisions.

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• 12+ research reports designed to help CIOs along every step of the strategic planning and budgeting process.
• Structured advisory sessions with Forrester analysts, focused on strategic visioning, a plan review, and an impact review of your company’s plan and planning process.
• Up to 20 custom data cuts per year, offering you the ability to dig deeper into the data and insights in our written research.

• More than 150,000 surveys completed annually by North American consumers.
• More than 70,000 surveys completed annually by European consumers.
• More than 10,000 surveys completed annually by employees in 20+ person companies.
• More than 20,000 surveys completed annually by IT or business decision-makers.
• New surveys exploring business leader technology priorities, business technology staffing, and the adoption of and satisfaction with critical new technologies.

• What percent of information workers use tablets for work, and how does that compare to laptops? What hardware and software do different segments of laptop users need from IT?
• What business priorities should I expect my business peers to be demanding technology support for?
• How much of my consumer business should I expect to be taking place over mobile devices in Europe within the next three years? How does that compare with the US?
• How satisfied are firms that have deployed social media with the ROI they are seeing from those investments?
• How does my spending on ongoing operations and maintenance compare with other 20,000+ person companies?
• How does our staff to capital IT spend ratio compare to other $1B+ companies in my industry?
• How does the percentage of my IT budget going toward new initiatives as opposed to the status quo compare with others in my industry?