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For CIO Professionals

Report:Forrsights: Business Execs Increase Direct IT Spend To Support Systems Of Engagement

Our Q4 2011 Business Decision-Makers Survey Shows CIOs Under Pressure

During October and November of 2011, Forrester surveyed 3,534 business decision-makers in North American and European enterprises regarding their business priorities (and views of IT priorities),...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Track Tech Trends That Influence Business Strategies

Technology Vision: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook

Technology is the foundation for the CIO's contribution to the success of the enterprise. And it is the dream of most CIOs that they partner with business organizations to co-create a business...

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Report:Process-Driven Transformation Will Depend On Stronger Business-IT Partnerships

How IT Will Forge Lasting Relationships With Process Owners And Process Teams

Business process transformation requires an unprecedented level of collaboration among business owners, process teams, and IT, three groups not accustomed to working together. IT usually limits...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Framing The Business And IT Impact Of Mobile And Remote Work

Business Leaders Must Focus On People, Technologies, And Facilities Management

With two-thirds of the North American and European workforce reporting that they work outside a corporate office at least occasionally during a month, it's imperative that business leaders initiate...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Process-Driven Business Of 2020

Why And How To Shift From Incremental Improvement To Transformation

Business executives expect the CIO to help continuously improve processes by implementing major software suites, developing new apps, or enhancing existing processes. Spurred by the great recession,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Transformation Imperative In Financial Services Defies Any Crisis

The Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey Continues To Show A Focus On Transformation

Today's financial services firms often find that their application landscape is no longer able to cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Trends In Aligning Capabilities, Skills, And Tools For BPM COE Programs

These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 BPM Center Of Excellence Online Survey.

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Selecting Technologies That Support The Business

Technology Vision Toolkit: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook

This toolkit is a companion to the "Track Tech Trends That Influence Business Strategies" report from the BT Strategic Planning playbook. It presents a simple yet effective tool for targeting...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Identify Essential Methods For Your Business Architecture Program

Processes: The Business Architecture Playbook

Business architecture (BA) is the practice through which an organization adds analytical rigor to the planning and decision-making surrounding change. Whether changes are driven by competitive...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: Learning The Difference Between Good And Bad Governance

How A European Bank Deployed BPM Governance To Support The Renewal Of Its Core Banking System

Business executives at a European universal bank learned valuable lessons from its experiences implementing both good and bad operational governance during the renewal of its core banking processes...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: IOR Transformed To Increase Business Agility

Pragmatic Adoption Of SOA, Agile, Open Source, And Cultural Change Tactics Yielded Improved Business-IT Relationships And A More-Agile Organization

The Vatican Bank, or Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR), transformed its application development and delivery organization over a three-year period to become: 1) agile — to respond to...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook Dims For 2012 To 2013

US Tech Spending Growth Will Maintain A Mediocre 4% To 5% Pace

This report details Forrester's projections of tech market growth in the US. We have reduced our forecast for 2012 growth in the US tech market from our April projections of 7.5% for total US...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Tech Opportunities In The North American Insurance Industry

Emerging Technologies Spur New Insurer Thinking And New Vendor Applications

North American insurers are reorienting from business as usual, where actuaries and underwriter drive product creation and sales, to a "business-as-unusual" model in which insurers sell a customer...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Canadian Tech Market 2012 To 2013

Economic Worries Lead Canadian CIOs To Cut Back ICT Purchases

Canada's CIOs and tech buyers are behaving as if Canada is heading for a recession — and it's not. Indeed, while the Canadian economy is growing at about the same 4% rate (at current prices) as...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Executives' Perceptions Of Differentiation Among Suppliers: Update For 2011

Results, not products, differentiate vendors in the eyes of executives.Executives assign strategic supplier status to vendors that are willing and able to align in substantial, not superficial, ways....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Segmenting The US Tech Market

SMBs' Tech Buying Outpaces That Of Enterprises Or Consumers, But The Situation Will Reverse In 2013

For CIOs, understanding trends in the broader tech market is useful, but even more useful is information on trends for companies of their size and in their industry. With IT consumerization or...

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For CIO Professionals

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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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:China Tech Market Outlook: 2012 To 2013

The Big Dragon's IT Spending Will Slow Down In 2012

The European debt crisis has gradually begun to affect China, slowing economic growth in the country in the first half of 2012. To reflect this, we've revised our China tech market forecast and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2013 And 2014: Better Times Ahead

We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years

US CIOs remain torn between their need to invest in new mobile, cloud, and smart technologies and their fear of encountering economic doldrums (or worse). Over the past two and a half years, these...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2012 To 2013

Improving Economic Prospects Create Upside Potential

CIOs care about tech market trends for three reasons: 1) to understand how much other firms are spending on information and communications technologies (and where); 2) to determine where they ought...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Budgets And Priorities: Global Benchmark 2012

Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs

CIOs are under more pressure to do more things, do them faster, and do them with less money than ever before. This has made the IT budget process increasingly stressful and often contentious, as...

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:The Tech Trends Assessment Tool