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Blog:Are Your Employees Doing This?

I just saw something that makes a point I covered in a technology trends briefing for a client yesterday. After getting my Sun-dried Ethiopia Harrar (a $3.45 “clover-brewed,”...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Use Effective EA Deliverables To Guide Change

Deliverables: The EA Practice Playbook

This report defines an approach for creating enterprise architecture (EA) deliverables as part of a high-performance EA practice. It is designed to help you create work products that matter to...

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Report:Technology Standards Toolkit

An effective standards program provides an important foundation for any enterprise architecture (EA) program. Both new and well-established programs will want to get and keep their standards house in...

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Report:Federal IT Cost Reduction Efforts Will Require Process Change To Succeed

In an attempt to control IT costs, the US federal government is establishing mandates that are forcing deep and massive technology change. With data center consolidation and cloud migrations entering...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Blog:Take A Broader View Of Agile To Survive In The Digital Age

I just finished analyzing our Q3 2012 Global State Of Enterprise Architecture Online Survey, where we asked a number of questions at the end of the survey on how firms identify and introduce new...

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Report:Create A Strategy To Leverage Emerging Technology

Strategic Plan: The Emerging Technology Playbook

For many organizations, the use of emerging technology is confusing, slow, and problematic. Which emerging technologies should be part of IT's standard approach? Which should IT push for business to...

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Blog:Starving People Will Find Food

In our Forrsights Business Decision-Makers Survey, Q4 2011, 79% of business executive respondents said that technology will be a key source of innovation for their company, while 71% said that it...

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Blog:Avoid Becoming A One-trick Pony: Embrace Your Business' Need For Real-time

  #next_pages_container { width: 5px; hight: 5px; position: absolute; top: -100px; left: -100px; z-index: 2147483647 !important; }The term “one-trick pony” allegedly originated back...

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Blog:It Doesn't Matter Where EA Lives — So Let's Stop Arguing About It

George Colony, our CEO, just released a post on his blog about enterprise architecture, aptly enough named “Enterprise Architects For Dummies (CEOs).” I retweeted the post to my followers...

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Blog:Agility And What's Keeping You From It

In our Forrsights Business Decision-Makers Survey, Q4 2011, we asked business technology leaders to rate IT’s ability to establish an architecture that can accommodate changes to business...

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Blog:What’s Cooking – Emerging Tech Update 2013 (Part 1)

  #next_pages_container { width: 5px; hight: 5px; position: absolute; top: -100px; left: -100px; z-index: 2147483647 !important; }As the analyst covering all things emerging information...

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Blog:The First Rule Of Big Data — Don't Talk About Big Data

I’ll be chairing Big Data World Europe on September 19 in London; in advance of that event, here are a few thoughts. Since late 2011, we’ve seen the big data noise level eclipse cloud and...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Blog:From Our EA Community — Boiling Down Your BT Strategy To A Single Page

Last fall, a member of our enterprise architecture community asked a simple question — how do you represent IT strategy on a single page? What resulted was the most read and commented...

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Report:BUILD TRUST AND AGILITY WITH AN EA PROCESS FRAMEWORK

Processes: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the process framework of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. The process framework links EA activities to...

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Blog:2012 Predictions – Technology Will Shape Who We Are As People And Businesses

In the first phase of the information age, technology helped us achieve new levels of productivity. In the next phase, technology will shape who we are. Why? Because technology is everywhere –...

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Report:Create Agile Processes For Introducing Emerging Technology

Processes: The Emerging Technology Playbook

With its careful approach to planning technology investments and general aversion to risk, IT is not meeting business demands for emerging technology as a driver for innovation and growth. Enterprise...

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Report:Break Down Silos With An Emerging Technology Road Map

Road Map: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Firms increasingly depend on technology to be innovative and disruptive. However, our data indicates that most firms are not doing a good job of getting new technology in the door and ensuring that...

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Blog:Rethink Your IT Strategy If You’re Serious About Cloud

Cloud – people can’t agree on exactly what it is, but everyone can agree that they want some piece of it. I have not talked to a single client who isn’t doing something proactively...

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Blog:Forrester's Top 15 Emerging Technologies To Watch: Now To 2018

The pace of technology-fueled business innovation is accelerating, and enterprise architects can take a leading role by helping their firms identify opportunities for shrewd investment. In our 2012...

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Blog:A Copernican Shift (And A Tip Of My Hat To Randy Heffner)

As my first calendar year as an analyst draws to a close, I wanted to thank everybody who has read and commented on my blog and say that I look forward to even more next year. In closing out the...

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Report:Build The Case For Emerging Technology

Business Case: The Emerging Technology Playbook

The business appetite for new technology to fuel innovation, generate growth, engage with customers, and create differentiation is insatiable. According to our survey data, however, your business is...

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Blog:The Emerging Technology Juggernaut

I heard a great analogy from a client recently; buying new technology is like buying a new car - there are a lot of different strategies. Some people want a new car every couple of years and pay a...

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Report:Navigate Digital Disruption With An Emerging Technology Vision

Vision: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Emerging information technology has been a key enabler of business evolution since the 1960s and shows no signs of letting up. As we move beyond simple digitization of information to digital business...

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Report:Cut Through Silos With An Agile Technology Introduction Strategy

To succeed in the digital age, enterprise architects must seize opportunities by adopting new approaches for emerging technolgy introduction. This report highlights the technology introduction and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Business Technology "Strategy On A Page" Toolkit

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