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Report:Aligning Business And IT Around Innovation

Innovation Isn't Just About New Products

More than 95% of the enterprise budget decision-makers Forrester surveyed indicated that increasing IT capacity and resources for innovation is on their agenda for the next year, according to our...

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Tool:Collaboration Investments Are Closely Aligned With Business Goals

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Report:Ogilvy's 360 Digital Influence Leverages Social For Competitive Advantage

An Empowered Report

In the hyper-competitive online social marketing world two things differentiate the winners from the losers: creativity and client service. When Ogilvy's 360 Digital Influence group looked at...

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Blog:Some Thoughts on 2012 Before The Holidays

We're just about to the end of 2012 (and according to the Mayan calendar, the end of time) so I figured it was about the right time to put together some thoughts on the year.  Let's...

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Client Inquiry:Enterprise Social Quick Take

1) What is the scale of enterprise social business value? 2) What business benefits are aggressive firms realizing? 3) What is the average investment size? 4) What are the risks of enterprise social...

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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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Client Inquiry:SaaS Enterprise Social Networks

Which enterprise social platforms vendors offer SaaS deployment models?

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Report:Mapping The Value Of Social Business And Collaboration

Business Impact: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Like Ponce de Leon searching for the Fountain of Youth, businesses have long searched for the value of collaboration. Skeptics say that the quest, like de Leon's, is a fool's errand. Many argue that...

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Tool:Enterprise Social Tools Are Used To Address Broad Strategic Business Requirements

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Report:WebCenter Suite Allows Oracle Applications To Embrace The Information Workplace

Oracle is not a company that leaps to mind when you think of knowledge workers — certainly, not in the way that IBM/Lotus or Microsoft might. Yet, with the emergence of the Information...

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Report:SharePoint Adoption: Content And Collaboration Is Just The Start

Driving A SharePoint-Based Information Workplace Will Challenge C&C Pros

Microsoft SharePoint is poised for broader adoption as an Information Workplace platform. While most use it for content and collaboration (C&C) needs today, the platform's broad, integrated...

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Client Inquiry:Idea Management

What is the future vision for idea management? What are other companies doing? Who are the major leaders for idea management solutions? What are the industry best practices on how activities like...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Activities Streams, Q2 2012

The Five Top-Of-Mind Streams And How They Stack Up

In Forrester's first 19-criteria evaluation of activities streams vendors, Forrester identified the five significant players — Neudesic Pulse, Salesforce Chatter, Socialcast by VMware...

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Blog:Microsoft Turns The Battleship In Pirate-Infested Waters

For a long time Microsoft ruled the knowledge worker part of the IT seas with impunity. They have fended off attacks from the expected folks like IBM and Oracle rather handily. Then the...

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Blog:Social? It Will Never Work! Or Will It?

More than 22 years ago, I met my amazing wife and was welcomed into her wonderful family. At the time, I was a project manager working for Lotus Consulting. I managed the rollout of large Lotus Notes...

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Report:Staffing For Social Business And Collaboration Success

Skills And Staffing: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

All too often, IT approaches staffing for social business and collaboration initiatives as it would other IT-led projects. With a focus on providing the best technical solution possible, the...

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Tool:Top Business Priorities For Firms Investing In Innovation

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Blog:SharePoint, Meet Yammer; Is It Time For Microsoft To Burn The Boats?

In collaboration, there are cloud vendors, on-premises vendors and hybrid vendors. Here's the thing; hybrid vendors are not really cloud vendors. What do I mean by that? Let's look at two...

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Report:Assessing The Skills You Need From SharePoint Professional Service Providers

Implementing SharePoint can be a broad and complex initiative. Given the depth and breadth of the product it's not surprising that SharePoint professional services firms come in all shapes and sizes....

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Report:Google Apps For Business: A 2011 Trip Report

Google Apps Business Is Growing; Mobile, Social, And APIs Move To The Fore

Forrester spent a day with Google Apps Vice President Dave Girouard and members of his team to hear the latest on Google Apps for Business and Google Apps for Government. With the US General Services...

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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:The CIO's Role In The Social Business Policy

Policy And Procedures: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

A clear social business policy is an essential guide for employees using social and collaboration tools for customer engagement and for internal or partner collaboration. While it takes a...

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 '11

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Report:Integration: The Next Frontier For Enterprise Social

The "Social Layer" Ignites The Next Wave Of Social Technology Innovation

Enterprise social technology vendors have begun to actively position their offerings to meet integration requirements, and the term "social layer," which Forrester originally heard from Socialtext...

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Report:Amway Integrates Notes And SharePoint To Drive Its Information Workplace (IW)

Mainsoft Provides The Crucial Glue For A Multivendor IW Strategy

Amway runs an extremely complex, global business including product development, manufacturing, marketing, and a unique and highly successful distribution system. This complexity means that Amway IT...

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