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Blog:Sputnik Moments Drive Education Investment: Good News for Tech Vendors

“Winning the Future” was the theme of the recent US State of the Union address.  With the global economy and new education performance rankings as our “sputnik moment,”...

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Blog:Public Sector Is Hot: IT Services Providers Take Note

The public sector is certainly hot these days – definitely in the hot seat, in hot water.  Concerns about public sector finance persist, with the discussion in some cases targeting...

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Blog:Too Many Chiefs? Do Public Organizations Need Chief Data Officers?

I highly recommend reading Gene Leganza’s blog on the role of the Chief Data Officer, written several months ago. Having had several related discussions this past week while in Washington DC,...

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Blog:Organizing An Open Data Program

Last week I gave a Forrester webinar on open data in government. The premise was that while big data is changing business, open data is changing the business of government. Open data provides not...

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Blog:Better Access To Healthcare Is Not Just For Emerging Markets — Just Ask Me

In addition to the eHealth initiatives mentioned in my previous blog, I wanted to call out another T-city program that struck close to home for me — the “tumor conference program.”...

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Blog:Open Data Isn’t Just For Mega Cities: The City Of Palo Alto Proves That

Many of the marque open data programs are in the big cities. Think New York City and its NY Big Apps Contests, or Chicago or London or Barcelona or Rio de Janeiro. But smaller cities are also sitting...

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Blog:IBM's Intelligent Operations Center for Smart Cities: Think Cities not just Departments.

Government investment in ICT is growing. At Forrester we expect the overall government ICT budget to reach $346 billion in 2011, growing to $382 billion in 2012 or by about 10%.  That makes...

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Blog:"Xerox this" Takes On A New Meaning: Business Transformation

I attended a Xerox analyst event last week in Grenoble, France, and was very impressed with both the setting and what I heard. Xerox is much more than the verb it was once associated with, and office...

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Blog:Silicon Savannah: Is Africa The Next Frontier For Smart Cities?

    Yesterday the Kenyan president broke ground on a new smart city development outside of Nairobi. The site of the new Konza Techno City is located in Eastern Kenya, 60 km from Nairobi on...

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Blog:Keeping The Lights On Keeps Decision-Makers Awake: OBS Can Help Them Rest More Easily

Business continuity is a top concern of global business and IT decision-makers. Headline news has made these concerns all the more acute – from the political unrest that characterized the...

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Blog:Will Russia Really Change? Cisco Places Its Bet. But Seeing Is Believing.

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev toured Silicon Valley last week, meeting with tech vendor executives and local entrepreneurs.  At Cisco, Medvedev participated in a telepresence session and...

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Blog:Taking Lessons From Smart Cities

On Sunday I will be participating in IBM’s Middle East and North Africa CIO Conference 2010, where I will present my research on Smart Cities. I’m looking forward to speaking with...

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Tool:Optimism About Industry And Budget Projects Prevails in Emerging Markets

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Blog:"Smart" Is Here To Stay: Smart City Tweet Jam Summary

Forrester’s Smart City Tweet Jam was a great success.  On Tuesday morning/afternoon/evening, smart city followers around the globe participated in an hour of intense tweeting on smart...

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Blog:30 Hours In Saudi Arabia: How "Smart" Is That?

Very smart, I say. Here I sit finally getting a chance to reflect on my 30 hours in Saudi Arabia. Yes, just a little more than one day. But one day was enough to change any preconception that I might...

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Report:Getting Clever About Smart Cities: New Opportunities Require New Business Models

Population growth and urbanization are stretching many cities' infrastructure and resources to breaking point. Policymakers and public leaders are increasingly looking to ICT solutions to effectively...

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Blog:OBS Could Have A Comprehensive Smart City Strategy; But They Don't, Yet

Orange Business Services has all the pieces to have a comprehensive smart cities services offering. But they aren’t telling that story, or maybe just not yet. Given the interest in smart cities...

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Blog:Energy Data Fuels Innovation (Pun Intended)

Smart meters provide consumers with granular data on how they are consuming energy — when is the meter spinning fastest, which appliances are the energy guzzlers, how much energy are those...

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Report:With Vast Government Cloud Opportunities In Asia Pacific, Vendors Need To Know Where To Look

The Shift To Government Cloud Is Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary

Economic, technological, and behavioral changes are driving a fundamental transformation in how governments deliver services. Asia Pacific governments will leverage cloud computing to create more...

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Blog:Open Data Is Not Just For Governments Anymore...

. . . Nor has it ever really been. Government data has long been a part of strategic business analysis. Census data provides insights into local standards of living and household budgets, health...

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Blog:Global Competition For "Doing Business"

I've written about the World Bank's Doing Business Index in several blogs and reports.  One of my favorite graphics from my "Where In The World?" report on market opportunity assessment...

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Blog:Venices (And Singapores) Of The World: Imitation And Innovation

We often hear of city comparisons.  In my many years in Russia, I must have heard that St. Petersburg was the Venice of the North hundreds of times.  Another is Paris.  How many times...

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Blog:IBM's CityOne Makes A Global Debut

CityOne, IBM's new Smarter City Simulation game, is interesting. But who will really play? IBM introduced a new Smarter City Simulation game yesterday.  I took a few minutes to play around...

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Blog:Join Forrester’s Smart Cities Tweet Jam, November 9th at 11am EDT/8am PDT/5pm CET

What’s your approach to the smart city? What's your role? Join Forrester Analysts, IT decision-makers, vendor strategists, and other Tweeters in our upcoming Smart Cities Tweet...

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Blog:Do sGovernment And fGovernment Get A “Like”?

The word is that promise of sCommerce (social commerce) and fCommerce (Facebook commerce) is more speculative than proven. What about the role of social media in government and governance? Mayors,...