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For Security & Risk Professionals

Tool:Peer Best Practices — You Must Market Security Up, Across, And Down

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Is The Total Project Effort Distribution Among SDLC Disciplines?

We are looking to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of project execution under the software development life cycle (SDLC)/Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the efforts distributed among SDLC...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:B2B Tech Marketers Are The Key To Competitive Success In Customer-Centric European Markets

B2B Social Technographics® Data For Q1 2011 Confirms That Social Media Usage In Europe Continues At A High Level

Forrester has completed its Q1 2011 US And European B2B Social Technographics® Online Survey For Business Technology Buyers, which marks the third year we've conducted this survey As in the US,...

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:Software Subscription Fees Are Only A Small Proportion Of All Software Spend in ANZ

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Transform HRM Processes And Systems To Drive Business Excellence

Executive Overview: The Human Resource Management Playbook

As businesses strive to achieve competitive differentiation, growth, and global expansion while carefully managing costs, people strategies play a big factor in successful outcomes. In shaping these...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Get To Know Your 2010 Business Analysts

In Q3 2010, Forrester Research and the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) partnered to survey 1,461 business analysts (BAs), systems analysts, software requirements engineers, and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Introducing The Forrester BT Leadership Maturity Model

A Self-Assessment Framework To Focus And Accelerate Your Transformation

Many CIOs struggle to answer two deceptively simple questions: 1) How are we doing, and 2) what should I prioritize? These questions invite a host of complexities, raising questions about the role of...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA-PMO Partnership Cultivates Innovation Opportunities

The next-generation project management office (PMO) adds to the traditional PMO skill set of managing demand, providing oversight, and ensuring compliance by innovating through new practices and...

• Downloads: 449

For CIO Professionals

Tool:Three Definitions Of The ICT Market

For CIO Professionals

Report:Sustained Innovation Propels The Business Engine

Business Impact: The Innovation Playbook

"Innovate or die" is not just a catchy slogan — it's the nature of business today. Shortened business cycles, competitors entering and establishing market presence overnight, and social...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Building — Or Re-Invigorating — A Shared Service Center

In the mid-1990s companies tried to combine some of the advantages of outsourcing with the benefits of keeping important internal know-how and key resources. As a result, the shared service center...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Building The Always-On, Always-Available Extended Enterprise

Three Steps To Get You On The Path To Running 24x7x365 Services

The extended enterprise of internal employees to external customers, partners, and suppliers expect services to be delivered to them 24x7x365 in a seamless fashion. But running an always-on,...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Develop Your Service Management And Automation Balanced Scorecard

Performance Management: The Service Management And Automation Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals to develop effective objectives and metrics for their service management and automation (SMA)...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Industry-Specific Master Data Management Trends

This set of data charts, taken from the November 2010 Global master Data Management Online Survey, analyzes data from 134 MDM-savvy IT professionals in five distinct industries-- healthcare; the...

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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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Understanding Business Change Management Challenges

Persistent Questions Business Process Pros Ask

The pace of continuous improvement and transformational change in business processes continues to accelerate, often outpacing employees' ability to keep up. In general, businesspeople don't embrace...

• Downloads: 512
• Comments: 2

For CIO Professionals

Tool:IT Budgets Are On The Rise Again In ANZ

For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:CISO Handbook: Ten Tips For Building A Successful Security Steering Committee

As information security matures into a formal discipline, it needs formal governance mechanisms. Over the past 12 months, Forrester has seen increased interest and activity in establishing security...

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:Three Ways Of Looking At IT Budgets

For CIO Professionals

Report:Social Business Strategy: An IT Execution Plan

Using Social Business Maturity To Chart A Course For CIOs

Social technology is coming into every organization whether IT wants it or not. The adoption of social technologies to support business and customer needs has been fastest outside of IT — often...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Organize Your Business Architecture To Deliver Your Strategy

Organization: The Business Architecture Playbook

This report assists business architecture (BA) leaders in organizing the BA roles and skills needed to successfully execute a business architecture program. One of the major challenges facing...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Let The Adjacent Possible Guide Your Information Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

A new era of information agility is upon us that promises an explosion of opportunities similar to that of the dot-com boom period. But these opportunities are completely dependent upon an...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:The Number Of Lean Engagements Continue To Increase At Wipro

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Dual Project Managers: Dream Team Or Two-Headed Monster?

Forrester's AD&D Community Weighs In On Projects With Multiple Project Managers

Over the past few months, we reached out to The Forrester Community For Application Development & Delivery Professionals to find out if a project can succeed with more than one project manager (PM)....

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