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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Assess Your Readiness For A Cohesive Information Strategy And Architecture Program

Assessment: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Information workers thrive or falter depending on their ability to get the information they need quickly and easily, with high confidence that it's the right information. Enterprises need to protect...

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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:Break Down Silos With An Emerging Technology Road Map

Road Map: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Firms increasingly depend on technology to be innovative and disruptive. However, our data indicates that most firms are not doing a good job of getting new technology in the door and ensuring that...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Integrate EA With ITIL Service Portfolio Management

It has been almost three years since ITIL v3 was released, superseding v2. While v3 has overtaken v2 in terms of overall adoption, most IT shops are still struggling to adopt v3's new service...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Build A Business Architecture Program Road Map

Road Map: The Business Architecture Playbook

Too often, business architecture (BA) programs struggle to create a clear identity for the value they can deliver and get pulled in multiple directions. Successful BA programs — th ose with...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Conceptual Architecture: Overview

A conceptual architecture is a tool that enterprise architects can use to enhance communication, provide context, and aid direction setting. Though there are many situations in which an architect...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Playbook:The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Focus Your Information Strategy On Business Impact

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...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:KPIs In Use Versus Corporate Support For EA

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Measure EA's Business Goals, Engagement, And Influence

Metrics: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the metrics for enterprise architecture (EA) impact of Forrester's solution for EA executives building a high-performance EA program. Developing and executing a metrics and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Aetna's EA Organization Uses Capability Maps To Connect Business Strategies

A Profile Of One Of The Winners Of The InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award

EA organizations often toil out of the limelight, working with their firms to improve business-IT alignment, rationalize the application portfolio, and guide technology use. Forrester teamed up with...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Information Architecture Deliverables: What Matters Most?

Five Artifacts Underpin An Effective Program

Architects in any domain have no time to waste creating deliverables that wind up collecting dust on a shelf. Information architects, who have historically had a particularly difficult time engaging...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Mobile, Social, And Cloud Influence Collaboration, Content, And Application Architectures

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:ITIL V3 Adoption Continues To Progress

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: BI-LO Directly Links EA Goals To Business Strategy

For an EA team that succeeded in significantly reducing costs by virtualizing infrastructure technology, success is a two-edged sword: It boosts the credibility of the EA team but links architects to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Execute On Your EA Practice Strategy

Road Map: The EA Practice Playbook

This report describes how to turn a strategy into a road map for execution and how to overcome common impediments to high-performance enterprise architecture (EA). EA programs too often get pulled in...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:IT Process Standardization Varies By Firm Size; Business Processes Are More Consistent

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Select The Core Methods And Techniques You Need To Deliver BPM Excellence

Policy And Procedures: The Business Process Management Playbook

This report outlines the critical methods and techniques for business process management (BPM) initiatives. It represents a key component of Forrester's solution for BPM excellence. It is designed to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: To Launch EA, Woodmen Focused Intensely On Clearly Defined Goals

Smaller IT shops of fewer than 150 staff members have a hard time dedicating separate staff to strategic activity such as EA. But in any environment, goals and processes without owners are likely to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:More Than 50% Of EA Groups Are Minimally Or Not Involved In ITIL

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:Using Tools And Technology For Business Architecture Programs

Tools And Technologies: The Business Architecture Playbook

Business architecture (BA) programs rely on a set of models and methods that often benefit from being linked to each other and to other external data sources. For some enterprise architects,...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Effectiveness Is Linked To Business And IT Process Standardization

Firms With More Standardization See Greater EA Impact And Support

In September 2009, Forrester Research surveyed 416 IT executives familiar with their firm's EA program to determine the state of their EA practice — its maturity, structures and roles,...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Natural Resources Firm Applies Capability Maps To Bring Order To Its Business Environment

Distributed and fast-paced business organizations are a major challenge for IT. Distributed business units tend to see the world from their viewpoint, creating overlapping and sometimes competing...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Forrester Enterprise Architecture Maturity Assessment: Q2 2013

Forrester's enterprise architecture (EA) maturity assessment model tool will help EA leaders define and communicate their direction and value in a variety of ways depending on the unique challenges...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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