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Assessment Framework: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Companies have been investing in collaboration tools for 15 years or more, yet email is still the most commonly used tool. New social tools that dramatically improve the flow of information and...
More Than A Million Shared Slides Get An Audio And Video Facelift; Consumerization Gets Another Injection; IT Gets Another Vendor To Track
Why does the world need yet another webconferencing vendor? Because the existing solutions don't deliver all the value that your employees crave at a price you can afford. SlideShare has answered the...

Assessment: The CIO's The Mobile Engagement Playbook
Prepare For The Implications Of Over-The-Top Communications
Telecom carriers' core revenue base, voice and messaging, is under attack from the over-the-top (OTT) business model. Given the financial importance of voice and messaging revenues for carriers, they...

Adoption Is Low But Market Impact Is High As Buyers Consider Alternatives
At home and at work, people overwhelmingly use Microsoft Office. Yet content and collaboration (C&C) pros continue to ask Forrester questions about office alternatives. So we recently surveyed 150 IT...
Forrester's 2011 Tech Industry Predictions
In this report, we highlight macro trends and specific predictions that indicate the directions of growth and disruption for the technology industry in 2011.
What is the state of video use by information workers?
An Empowered Report
In the hyper-competitive online social marketing world two things differentiate the winners from the losers: creativity and client service. When Ogilvy's 360 Digital Influence group looked at...
Faced with the need to improve information management and deliver better government services in an era of reduced budgets, the UK's Department for Education (DfE) created an Information Workplace...
More BYOD, More Devices, More Mobility, More Apple
Have we hit peak bring-your-own-device (BYOD)? Which apps are most important on smartphones? How many employees are interested in Windows tablets? Do employees use mobile devices for work more at...

Three Firms Achieve Tangible Results
Companies depend on innovation to sprint out of the current economic doldrums and to return to profitability and growth. Innovation is a discipline with established best practices, needed skill sets,...
The Social Business Maturity Model is presented in conjunction with the research report "Social Business Strategy: An IT Execution Plan," which explains more fully how CIOs should apply the model....
Companies are using streaming video — live and on-demand — to enhance marketing, training, and business communications with internal and external audiences. The market for video...
Open Data Pioneers Offer Lessons For Launching Initiatives
Data has become quite the buzzword lately, with everyone looking to mine their big data for customer insights, operational efficiencies, and business performance improvement. Governments are no...

Business Leaders Must Lead Big Data Initiatives To Derive Value
As consumers use multiple touchpoints to obtain information, exchange reviews, and purchase products and services, organizations are struggling to better integrate systems and leverage social...

The Info Worker Population Will Grow From 555 Million To 865 Million By 2016, With Growth Markets Leading The Way
Employees that use Internet-connected computing devices for work — info workers — will trample the boundary between work and personal spheres. In this report, we summarize how it came to...

And Seven Mobile-First Alternatives That Are Better
Great mobile experiences are built on systems of engagement, and that means spending money on new engagement technology. Mobile apps have the thorny problem of needing to work spectacularly and...
It's hard to believe, but some enterprises still use custom-coded Web content management (WCM) solutions. However, consumer demands have forced firms to shift from just managing and publishing Web...
Forrester's Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey, Q1 2011, was fielded to 5,102 technology end users located in Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US from SMB and enterprise companies with 20...
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...

An Empowered Report: An Empowered Maturity Model Drives The Conversation
Does your organization empower employees to solve the problems of empowered customers? If not, why not? What do you need to do? To build momentum on your empowered initiatives, first get everybody on...