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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Fuse Technology, Innovation, And Business Change In Your Planning Cycle

Planning Methods: The EA Method Playbook

In most businesses today, technology has become a strong driver for innovation. The fruits of technology innovation are experienced all across the business model — from the point of customer...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Readiness Assessment For Information Strategy And Architecture Toolkit

Developing a cohesive information strategy that can deliver on current and future business needs is challenging. Building an information architecture is a highly collaborative endeavor, and to...

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Report:Develop Business-Focused And Strategic EA Organizations

Organization: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the organizational structures, roles, and skills you'll need to make sure that your enterprise architecture (EA) program is strategic, business-focused, and pragmatic. Building a...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: EA Management Suites, Q2 2013

The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

There is a plethora of vendors in the enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) market that, like many EA practices themselves, excel at only a portion of a comprehensive EA practice. It is not...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Build Your Mobile Engagement Strategy

Strategic Plan: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Mobile technology is rapidly evolving as a means for organizations to deliver new customer experiences, enhance customer value, and improve employee productivity. When combined with social, cloud,...

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Report:Drive Information Strategy Performance Management With Capability Models

Performance Management: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

As capability maps become the prevailing form for modeling business architectures, capability-based planning is growing into an effective practice to map organizations' general path forward....

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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:Develop A Business-Centered Enterprise Architecture That Boosts Agility

Executive Overview: The EA Method Playbook

Faced with continuous change — from technology innovations, new markets, and competitive shifts — businesses must become more agile. Sustainable business agility, the ability to...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Begin BT Strategic Planning With Clear Business Goals

Business Goals: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook

Clear business goals lie at the heart of good strategy. Unfortunately, many organizations have aspirational goals that make strategic planning difficult at best, and they lack the mechanism to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Cost Of Implementing An EA Management Suite

We are putting together an initial concept request for implementing an EA management software suite. We would like to know a "rough order of magnitude" regarding costs to implement such a solution,...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Map Your Way To Your Information Strategy's Business Outcomes

Road Map: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

One of the most difficult aspects of an information architecture (IA) practice is engaging stakeholders to buy into your strategy and contribute to your architecture development. The architect's best...

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Report:Identify Essential Methods For Your Business Architecture Program

Processes: The Business Architecture Playbook

Business architecture (BA) is the practice through which an organization adds analytical rigor to the planning and decision-making surrounding change. Whether changes are driven by competitive...

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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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Playbook:The Business Process Management Playbook

Drive Process Innovation Using BPM Technologies, Methods, And COEs

In the midst of continuous change — from technology, market, and competitive forces — businesses must become skilled at transforming and inventing new processes while improving their...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Drive Process Innovation Using BPM Technologies, Methods, And COEs

Executive Overview: The Business Process Management Playbook

In the midst of continuous change — from technology, market, and competitive forces — businesses must become skilled at transforming and inventing new processes while improving their...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of Business Architecture And Business Architects In 2013

Landscape: The Business Architecture Playbook

Interest in business architecture (BA) is high across firms. The more mature and successful BA practices collaboratively work with business leaders and executives to address their current and future...

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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

Report:Craft Your Business Change Delivery Process For Sustainable Business Agility

Implementation And Operation Methods: The EA Method Playbook

IT's traditional approach to delivering business change is broken. Siloed solution delivery projects struggle to keep up with the pace of business. Agile development, lean software, and business...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Create KPIs That Show The Effectiveness Of Your Information Strategy

Continuous Improvement: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

How effective is your information strategy? You can't answer that question without a comprehensive assessment process and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting mechanism that specifically targets...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Transformation Imperative In Financial Services Defies Any Crisis

The Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey Continues To Show A Focus On Transformation

Today's financial services firms often find that their application landscape is no longer able to cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Use POST To Build A Road Map For Mobile Engagement

Road Map: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

How do you build a road map for something as fast-moving and disruptive as mobile apps, devices, and projects? Certainly not by letting projects unfold at random as budgets and sponsors appear. To...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of Application Rationalization

Landscape: The Application Rationalization Playbook

Many enterprise architects (EAs) have been rationalizing application and technology portfolios for some time, and the experience shows. It is a stable, relatively successful initiative that engages...

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Report:Focus Your Information Strategy On Business Impact

Executive Overview: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals face the challenge of burgeoning business interest in maximizing the potential of new and existing information assets in the face of immature information...

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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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Report:Solution Architecture Tool Kit: Samples And Templates

This workbook is part of the "Solution Architecture Tool Kit" collection, a companion to the "Solution Architecture Tool Kit: Overview" PowerPoint deck. It includes samples and templates for...

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