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Report:CIOs Are Not Ready To Support Business Innovation

Benchmarks: The Innovation Playbook

While innovation is a hot topic among most of the organizations we work with, our recent survey of IT leaders indicates that a minority of firms have formalized their practices and processes. Only...

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Report:BT 2020: IT's Future In The Empowered Era

An Empowered Report: Sweeping Changes In The Business Landscape Will Topple The IT Status Quo

Over the next 10 years, three sets of forces will change the relationship of business, technology, and the IT organization. Technologies that are increasingly easy to acquire and use will empower...

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Report:Smart Products Will Require A Hybrid CTO/CIO Skill Set

The Burgeoning Set Of Connected Offerings Will Require New Skills

The era of the standalone product is over. More and more offerings are becoming intelligent, connected, and thus able to provide more engaging experiences for customers in business or consumer...

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Report:Where In The World?

A Structured Methodology For Prioritizing Geographic Market Entry

Many technology vendors are going global, seeking new markets to make up for the maturation of traditional ones. And rightly so; our Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey, Q2 2010, found...

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Report:Assess Your Innovation Capability Maturity

Assessment: The Innovation Playbook

Innovation is a must for an organization to succeed in today's harsh business climate. Understanding how well your organization has mastered the key capabilities required for a sustained innovation...

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Report:Opportunities In Education's Global Expansion

Tap Global Enterprise Experience and Local Expertise

In recent years, "study abroad" has taken on a whole new meaning — on brand new campuses. Many universities have established satellite campuses in host countries across the globe. These...

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Report:Data Center Services On Fire In Emerging Asia Pacific

Expect To See A 22% Five-Year Compound Annual Growth Rate

In the last two years, Emerging Asia Pacific has attracted substantial investment in building new data centers and refurbishing existing data centers. India and China are primarily focused on...

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Report:Unleash Innovation With Good Governance

Governance: The Innovation Playbook

Does your organization struggle to innovate? As organizations work to acquire and maintain competitive differentiation in a global marketplace, they often look to innovation as a key strategic...

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Report:Corporate Sustainability Will Depend On IT Solutions

Six Types Of IT For Sustainability Solutions Drive Sustainable Performance

Improving the environmental sustainability of corporate processes and products is slowly but surely moving up the strategic agenda of large companies around the world. In interviewing sustainability...

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Report:Thrive With Sustained Innovation In The Empowered BT Era

Executive Overview: The Innovation Playbook

Innovation has become a primary source of growth and competitive advantage, and the need for innovation underpins senior business leaders' top three issues. But how do CIOs help their firms realize...

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Report:Move From Ideation To Innovation

Ideation: The Innovation Playbook

Innovation is the number-one challenge for CEOs. And CIOs are increasingly asked to help solve the challenge by supporting innovation across the enterprise with new technology. The problem is that...

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Report:Empowered Customers Force CIOs To Focus On Innovation

Vision: The Innovation Playbook

Now is a critical time for CIOs to focus on innovation. The pace of change is too fast, the opportunities too great, and the risks too dire to relegate it to the annual funding process. Digitally...

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Report:Disciplined Social Innovation

Three Firms Achieve Tangible Results

Companies depend on innovation to sprint out of the current economic doldrums and to return to profitability and growth. Innovation is a discipline with established best practices, needed skill sets,...

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Report:The Reinvention Of Product Development Services

The Next Generation Of Service Offerings Spurs Market Growth

A series of major business, technological, and supplier changes is driving a fundamental transformation in the market for product development services. As our research unveils, wholesale buyers will...

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Report:Another Year Of Outperformance For The Tech Industry

Forrester's 2011 Tech Industry Predictions

In this report, we highlight macro trends and specific predictions that indicate the directions of growth and disruption for the technology industry in 2011.

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Report:Emerging Markets And Technologies Drive Tech Industry Growth

Forrester's 2012 Tech Industry Predictions

2012 is the year that the performance of emerging markets will be crucial to the growth prospects of the global technology industry. In particular, the top tier of the emerging markets — which...

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Report:Psion Embraces Intercompany Collaboration As A Core Part Of Its Business

Social Software Plugs Partners And Customers Into The Product Development Process

Psion, a manufacturer of ruggedized handheld devices, has made intercompany collaboration core to its business. Psion CEO John Conoley and CMO Nick Eades have partnered in recent years to turn around...

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Report:Six Business Technology Trends That Will Propel Your Firm In 2013

From Technology Foundations To Business Outcomes

Forrester sees six important trends unfolding in business technology (BT), where information technology will most directly and visibly affect business outcomes. Not having an initiative or effort...

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Report:Perspectives On Asia's BT Journey

Insights From Asian CIOs At Forrester's CIO Summit APAC 2012

CIOs in Asia face an inconvenient truth: transform or be overwhelmed by the forces of change. These forces include the consumerization of IT, "everything-as-a-service," enterprise mobility, big data,...

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Report:The Forrester Innovation Heat Index: Turn Good Ideas Into Real Innovations Faster

Selection And Prototyping: The Innovation Playbook

The pressure to innovate never been greater nor the possible sources of new ideas more diverse. You need a good system for collecting new ideas and sharing ideas among employees, customers, and...

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Report:Fuel Business Growth Via The BT Innovation Portfolio

Portfolio Management: The Innovation Playbook

While many organizations believe that they can generate innovative ideas, few have defined processes to empirically evaluate the ideas and make the proper funding decisions on a case-by-case basis....

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Report:It Takes An Innovation Network

Build/Buy Capabilities: The Innovation Playbook

Few firms have the resources and wherewithal to go it alone in the face of the current climate of almost continual business disruption. Just as a firm may look to partners and suppliers to complement...

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Report:Schools Move Beyond The Basics: Competition Will Drive Technology Into The Education Market

Tech vendor strategists are attracted by the "edu" opportunity — a large and fast-growing user base and increasing reliance upon technology by governments, educators, parents, and students. But...

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Report:Staffing For Sustained Innovation — Forget Large R&D Teams

Sustained Innovation Succeeds Best Through Broad-Based Involvement

This report identifies the resources and skills business technology (BT) organizations require to successfully manage sustained innovation and establish innovation policies and practices that drive...

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Report:2010 IT Budget Allocations: Planning For 2011

Baseline Spending Allocation Figures For Comparison

During this time of year, Forrester receives a large number of requests for information about IT budget allocations. As CIOs and their planning teams engage in creating next year's IT budget, it is...

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