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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch

IT organizations need to inform their annual and longer-term plans with an understanding of how changes in technology will enable business outcomes. EA groups are the logical leaders for this effort....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Shaping The IT Organization For Today And Tomorrow

Business expectations of IT continually change, driven by business context and needs and the embedding of technology in their strategy and operations. CIOs realize that with these changing business...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:BT 2020: IT's Future In The Empowered Era

An Empowered Report: Sweeping Changes In The Business Landscape Will Topple The IT Status Quo

Over the next 10 years, three sets of forces will change the relationship of business, technology, and the IT organization. Technologies that are increasingly easy to acquire and use will empower...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: Must-Read Research In Economic Downturns

The signs all point to an economic recession having started in 2008 and continuing into 2009, although there is no useful consensus on how long or how deep this recession will be. CEOs, CFOs, and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Sample Business Capability Map: Insurance

Business capability maps provide a framework for capturing key characteristics of a firm's business model and core functions that can then be used to assess business needs, understand IT costs, and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The IT Strategic Plan Step-By-Step

Deliver An Actionable Plan In A Reasonable Timeframe

It's April and you are four months into your organization's fiscal year. You know that within six months you'll need to have your operating plan for the upcoming year in fairly solid shape. You also...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of Enterprise Architecture 2010: Organization, Priorities, And Support

The EA team of 2009 reports high into the IT organization (either to the CIO or senior planning roles beneath the CIO), has broad acceptance and support, and spends about half its time on strategic...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of Enterprise Architecture 2010: Drivers, Initiatives, And Technology Priorities

Enterprise architecture (EA) priorities for 2010 show a continued focus on helping IT reduce costs and get applications out on time and on budget. For the longer term, however, EA will look to enable...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Managing IT When Times Get Tough

Proactive CIOs Will Help Firms Amid Economic Uncertainties

Macroeconomic conditions, whether they are downturns or boom times, broadly shape the CIO's job, but the firm's own context drives action. The reality is that any business at any time may need to...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Creating A Culture Of Performance And Value

The role of IT in many organizations has evolved from supporting the business to enabling the business — a shift that requires IT to transition from being mostly tactical and cost focused to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Next-Generation IT Requires Next-Generation EA

EA Makes The New Core Processes Of IT Work

What business wants from IT is changing, and that means IT has to change how it manages itself and the IT-business relationship. Building on current project delivery and operational management...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Forrester's Enterprise Reference Architecture Tool Kit: Overview

Materials To Promote Understanding Reference Architectures And Their Value

Design patterns, proven technology stacks, and well-documented application infrastructure are fundamental tools for promoting common practices in the design of business solutions. Enterprises often...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Using Business Capability Maps To Guide Application Portfolio Rationalization

Business' Process Goals Strongly Influence Application Strategy

Most firms have application portfolios with significant redundancy — a legacy of how business needs have been funded or past merger and acquisition activity. Firms initiate application...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Using Business Capability Maps To Guide IT Investment Governance

Project portfolio management (PPM) is a best practice for managing a business' IT investments from the initial identification of business needs through project approval and funding. However, IT...

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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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Forrester's Enterprise Reference Architecture Tool Kit: Examples And Process Guides

Design patterns, proven technology stacks, and well-documented application infrastructure are fundamental tools for promoting common practices in the design of business solutions. Enterprises create...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Characterizing EA Teams And Their Challenges

Forrester has seen that the mission and operating model of enterprise architecture teams can be characterized along two dimensions: orientation (technology-oriented or business-oriented) and focus...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Forrester's Enterprise Reference Architecture Tool Kit: Documentation Templates

Design patterns, proven technology stacks, and well-documented application infrastructure are fundamental tools for promoting common practices in the design of business solutions. Enterprises create...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Seven Trends That Will Shape The CIO Role

Two Distinct Career Options Emerge

2008 will see the firming up of several trends that will shape the CIO role in the future, the foremost being the bifurcation of the role itself. Some CIOs will capitalize on their visibility across...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Measuring The Effectiveness Of Your PMO

Program management offices (PMOs) are too frequently viewed as IT management overhead, especially when they focus on portfolio governance and oversight, rather than management of individual projects....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: So You Want To Be A Transformation Agent

Preparing For The Future — The Role Of The 21st Century CIO

CIOs are looking at a fork in the road — and some see how they can effect change in their enterprises, becoming agents of business transformation. These 21st century CIOs realize that firms...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Business-IT Expectation Gap

Importance Of Technology Is Not Matched By IT Effectiveness

Forrester's 2008 business technology (BT) survey of 600 business executives reinforces what many IT executives may sense: While technology is very important to firms, IT is not expected to meet, nor...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forrester's Architecture Review Tool Kit: Overview

Architecture review is an essential process for ensuring that projects are creating solutions with designs and technology that are compatible with long-term enterprise plans. This presentation...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Conceptual Architecture Tool Kit

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...

• Downloads: 91

For CIO Professionals

Report:Adjusting Your Project Portfolio For A Tough Economy

Given the current economic turbulence, the CIO and his or her staff must work with their business counterparts to revisit and revise their portfolio of projects. Necessity may dictate tough decisions...

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