Forrester

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 Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Five Steps To Build An Effective Threat Intelligence Capability

Tools And Technology: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

Against today's mutating threat landscape and sophisticated cybercriminals, security and risk (S&R) professionals are outgunned and outmatched. The traditional strategy of waiting for an alert and...

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For CIO Professionals

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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For CIO Professionals

Report:European IT Outsourcing — A Review Of A Market In Transition

The European outsourcing market has continued to see a high level of activity over the past 24 months, with Forrester tracking 340 deals in 2010 and 220 deals in the first half of 2011. However, as...

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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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SharePoint Adoption Faces Three Barriers: Mobile, Social, And Cloud

These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Trends 2013: North American Insurance eBusiness And Channel Strategy

Disruption Drives 12 Trends In Digital Insurance Agendas

There's one word that sums up what's going on in the business of insurance right now: disruption. There are four drivers behind the state that the industry is in, all of which have implications...

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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 Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Four Steps To Tackle The Shift To The Customer Life Cycle

Forrester believes that chief marketing officers (CMOs) must abandon the century-old marketing/sales funnel and embrace the customer life cycle in order to better manage their customers' interaction...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Smart Process Applications Fill A Big Business Gap

They Will Grow Twice As Fast As The Enterprise Application Market

Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change....

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Online Retail Forecast, 2011 To 2016 (US)

ForecastView Spreadsheet

Online retail spending by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares, consumer electronics, and baby products. Includes metrics, by category, such as online buyers, average spending per...

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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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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Maximize Media ROI With A Customer-Centric Approach

Road Map: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

This report outlines the road map portion of Forrester's solution for interactive marketing executives working on digital media buying. Moving to a higher level of digital media buying maturity...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2012 US Auto Insurance Secure Site Rankings

Forrester assessed the secure websites of five American private passenger auto insurers: Allstate Insurance, Geico, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Progressive Casualty Insurance, and State Farm Mutual...

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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 eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Establishing A Global Direct Online Sales Footprint

An Analysis Of B2C Manufacturers' International Expansion

Global brands are increasingly looking to sell direct on their own websites — and not just in their home markets. After examining the global direct-to-consumer sales presence of manufacturers...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2013

Benchmarks: The Customer Experience Management Playbook

How good is the customer experience at your company — as rated by your own recent customers? This report answers that question by providing benchmarks of the quality of customer experience for...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The New Paradigm Of Retail

Vision: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

Agile commerce promises to change the offers that retailers provide and the ways in which consumers buy; as a result, the look and feel of retail is certain to change in lockstep. All retailers will...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Compare Your Campaigns To 70 Others

Benchmarks: The Email Marketing Playbook

This report helps interactive marketers benchmark their email marketing campaigns against 70 of their peers that Forrester reviewed, from the consumer goods, retail, travel, financial services,...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Best And Worst Of Website Experience, 2011

Benchmarks: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

This report is an update to "Best And Worst Of Website User Experience, 2011" originally published on November 18, 2011. This report outlines how customer experience professionals can benchmark...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Measure The Business Impact Of Improved App Strategy

Business Case: The Business Applications Playbook

This report outlines the business case component of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. If you're debating...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Gaining Executive-Level Access

Executive buyers respond well to clear, personalized, easily scannable emails as a way to raise their interest in taking a meeting. The things that motivate executives to take a meeting fall into two...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Mobile Engagement Demands Process Transformation

Processes: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

To take advantage of an app in an employee's or customer's pocket, you have to help them accomplish a task quickly and easily whenever they want to and wherever they are. That means CIOs and business...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Top Three Ways Manufacturers Can Drive Higher Conversion Rates Through The Online Retail Channel

A Joint Study With Channel Intelligence Examines Best Practices Regarding Online Conversion

To better understand how manufacturers can increase the ultimate conversion rate on leads they send to online retailer websites, Forrester teamed up with Channel Intelligence to analyze the patterns...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2012

Benchmarks: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

This report provides benchmarks of the quality of customer experience at major companies. It should be used to help customer experience professionals set goals and optimize as they transform their...

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