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Blog:Are You Empowering Employees, Or Watching Them Empower Themselves?

Today, Forrester and Harvard Business Review Press released the print version of Empowered, a book by Forrester veterans Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler. This book is a quick and worthwhile...

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Blog:At Last, After A Long Courtship, They’re Engaged! (Ariba and Quadrem, That Is)

No, I’m not wasting Forrester’s blog space for yet more coverage of the royal engagement. I think Ariba’s proposed acquisition of Quadrem, that it announced today, is much more...

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Blog:Join Forrester’s New Online Community For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Clients frequently tell us how much they value connecting with their peers. A few years ago we created the Forrester Leadership Boards Sourcing & Vendor Management Council to serve that need. But in...

Discussion:Global managed WAN services - WAVE study will launch soon, What's important to you?

We'll soon launch our fourth biannual Global managed WAN services WAVE study. Things have changed a lot since the last time (Q4 2009), but have they really? We're hoping you'll weigh in about what...

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Client Inquiry:Vendor Management Negotiation Process Best Practices

What are some best practices for vendor management negotiation?

Discussion:The Foundations Of Success In Large Services Deals

Very Intersting, Thank You.We keep asking ourselfs how does the program for engaging in large services deals change in an Agile environment ?

Discussion:SVMs Need To Work Harder To Understand Stakeholder Needs

Great material and good advice for all strategic supplier relationship managers, asset managers, IT support teams, and even business architects. The closer you look inside your toolset, the more...

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Blog:Change Your Mobility Sourcing Strategy To Support Personal Devices

A growing number of workers own personal smartphones that they might want to use for work. However, IT support costs and security implications for personal mobile devices connected to the corporate...

Discussion:Site selection criteria for sourced solutions

Hello,Can you offer advice or insights as to research/reports available that will help (a) a more informed site selection process for a sourced solution; and (b) ongoing monitoring of locations from...

Discussion:Does anyone have laptop failure rates to share?

I'm currently seeing rates around 12% per year & the latest research I can find indicates that we should probably be around 18% over 36 months?  Does anyone have benchmarks they would like to...

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Blog:New Year’s Resolution: Sharpen Your Skills To Keep SVM Relevant

 I needed to order a tool from Amazon.com recently, and I was greeted with a “New Year, New You” panel linking me to whole host of exercise equipment targeted to my lifestyle. Same...

Discussion:Unified Communications (UC) User Categorization

Would you please explain what SVM means? "Support Vector Machines"...? ;) Thank you kindly.

Discussion:Senior Analyst Clarence Villanueva just released two exciting reports on Desktop Virtualization!

Clarence just relesaed a collection of reports on Desktop Virtualization for sourcing professionals.  The first is a report on the elements that need to comprise your RFP to virtualization vendors...

Discussion:How will the traditional role of sourcing change with the evolution of technology and technology buyers?

Principal Analyst Stephanie Moore is one of the keynote speakers at next week's SVM Forum in Miami. She'll be discussing the new sourcing imperative and how to align the business to transform your...

Discussion:Desktop Virtualization RFx Readiness Tool

Hi, is there a weighting in the charts such that the first item is more. In Network and Storage the 1st row appears to have a higher weight. For example, Row 19 is No and the other 3 is Yes the total...

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Client Inquiry:Outcome-Based Apps Outsourcing Demands Formalized Governance And Demand Management Structures

What are some of the current trends in outcome-based offshore outsourcing arrangements, and what structure do you maintain in your internal organization once you've outsourced?

Discussion:Cost Innovation Tips from the Sourcing & Vendor Management Council

At last week's bi-annual Sourcing & Vendor Management Council Meeting, Council Members broke into small groups to discuss their top strategies for cost savings across categories (hardware,...

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Blog:Can You Use Microsoft IE 8 Via VMware ThinApp? It Depends On Who You Ask.

As soon as you think you understand software companies’ policies on virtualization, a new problem appears that makes you tear your hair out and scratch your now-bald head. This month’s...

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Client Inquiry:Rural Versus Domestic Outsourcing

Can you provide some vendor management information specifically related to rural/nearshore outsourcing models?

Discussion:How do you justify IT services investments?

We know from our Forrsites data that the growing influence of business buyers on IT services decisions translates to more demanding financial justification for IT services buys. Nearly 70% of our...

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Blog:ATOS To Buy SIS

Rumors became official on Tuesday: Siemens succeeded in finding a viable partner to buy its IT Solutions and Services (SIS) business. For all of us following the market in the past it wasn’t a...

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Client Inquiry:Four Key Compliance Policies

Can you give examples of different compliance/storage resource management (SRM) policies you have seen from other companies?

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Client Inquiry:Technologies And Solutions Overview To Support The SVM Group Outside Of IT

How can Forrester's research help an IT organization support a sourcing and vendor management (SVM) group (within the larger organization) with the right technologies and solutions?

Discussion:Building A Successful RFP For Desktop Virtualization

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Blog:Are You Ready For China's Outsourcing Market?

Dear Forrester Community, I would like to take couple of minutes to introduce myself and the research topics I’m working on. I came to Forrester through the acquisition of Springboard Research...