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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Process Toolkit: Example Processes, Deliverables, And Responsibilities

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Practice Toolkit: Designing Your Operating Model And Structure

Enterprise architecture practices have a number of choices to make when deciding where responsibilities land within their organization. Forrester sees an increasing trend for EA leaders to take more...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of EA 2013: Information And Business Architecture Take Hold; New Hardships Arise

Landscape: The EA Practice Playbook

Since 2009, Forrester's global state of enterprise architecture (EA) online survey has tracked the trends, priorities, and challenges of the EA practice. In our latest survey, the scale of EA value...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Assessing Organizational Readiness For A Business Architecture Program

Assessment: The Business Architecture Playbook

Business architecture (BA) provides a coordinating framework for organizational analysis and change, helping to integrate different groups of stakeholders who often pursue subtly divergent...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Forrester Readiness Assessment For High-Performance EA

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Communicate EA Capabilities Companywide

Change Management: The EA Practice Playbook

This report provides an approach to formulating and implementing an enterprise architecture (EA) communication program that eliminates the guesswork and uncertainty that usually surround such...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Focus EA Impact On Planning, Governance, And Innovation

This report outlines the high-level business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on building a high-performance EA practice. Describing the added...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Management Suite Dashboards: Samples For Application And Project Portfolio Management Roles

An enterprise architecture (EA) tool can be a significant investment because of both the cost of the purchase or subscription and the cost of implementation. The best approach to demonstrate value is...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forrester's EA Maturity Assessment, Q3 2011

Use this tool to periodically assess the maturity of your EA program relative to the expectations of your stakeholders and your target EA mission. The assessment results are displayed by EA archetype...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forget EA Nirvana: Assessing EA Maturity

Use EA Archetypes To Assess Maturity And Align Effort With Expectations

Enterprise architecture (EA) maturity models abound. Each comes with its own opinion on EA maturity, its own system for scoring it, and a single set of beliefs on the proper role of EA within a firm....

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Management Suite Dashboards: Samples For The CIO Role

An EA tool can be a significant investment both because of the cost of the purchase or subscription and the cost of implementation. The best approach to demonstrate value is to directly serve the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of EA 2010

EA's Top Focus: Overcoming Long-Standing Obstacles

Forrester's "State Of EA 2010" report shows consistent themes and incremental progress by the enterprise architecture (EA) function in most firms. EA leaders are part of senior IT management and have...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Implementing An EA Management Suite

Successes And Lessons Learned From Customer References

The EA management suite (EAMS) is the next step in the evolution of EA tools. Going beyond modeling and standards repositories, the EAMS addresses pragmatic EA objectives such as IT planning, road...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Business Architecture Is A Catalyst For The Evolving PMO

Business Architecture Knowledge Enhances PMO Value

Project portfolio management (PPM) is a recognized best practice for increasing businesses' return on their IT spend. With their in-depth understanding of the firm's operating model and their ability...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Forrester's BT Portfolio Management Leadership Maturity Self-Assessment

This self-assessment workbook will help IT leaders assess the current state of their BT portfolio management leadership maturity and will serve as a tool to guide the organization’s development...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:2010 IT Budget Allocations: Planning For 2011

Baseline Spending Allocation Figures For Comparison

During this time of year, Forrester receives a large number of requests for information about IT budget allocations. As CIOs and their planning teams engage in creating next year's IT budget, it is...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Profile Of Corporately Supported EA Groups

Tactics For Improving Corporate Management's Support For EA In Large Firms

As a key strategic entity in any large firm, the enterprise architecture (EA) group requires a strong positive relationship with the ultimate decision-makers — the corporate management...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Social Technologies Will Penetrate IT Management Tools

A Tweet or any other status update, by design, is a small packet of information. When collected and put in a business context — particularly complex collaborative situations like IT project...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Do CIOs Care About IT Management Tools?

CIOs are constantly working to run IT like a business — focusing on business orientation through capabilities like IT planning, portfolio management, and IT investment optimization. A myriad of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Predict SaaS PPM Implementation Costs Using Forrester's Estimation Tool

Project portfolio management (PPM) software tools remain a popular method for automating the process of gathering, evaluating, managing, tracking, and reporting on IT's project investments, and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:SaaS PPM Cost-Estimation Tool

Use this step-by-step assessment workbook to estimate the costs of implementing a SaaS-based project portfolio management software tool.

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The CIO's 2010 Software Outlook

IT Trades Business Innovation For Cost-Reduction Focus

From September to November 2009, Forrester asked 2,165 North American and European IT software decision-makers for their plans and perceptions on software spending and trends in 2010. Amid...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Lessons Learned In PPM Software Implementations

Recommendations From Customer Reference Interviews For The Forrester Wave™ Evaluation Of PPM Software

In accordance with the Forrester Wave product evaluation methodology, Forrester conducted more than 50 customer reference interviews with users from 14 project portfolio management (PPM) software...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Forrester's Best Practices Framework For BT Leadership Maturity Workbook

This assessment workbook is intended be used in conjunction with "Forrester's Best Practices Framework For BT Leadership Maturity." IT leaders can rate their organizations on a one to five maturity...

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