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For businesses to remain competitive, they must enable their workers to draw ideas and labor from parties both inside and outside of the company. Employees charged with developing and marketing...
Using Digital Touchpoints To Enhance Advisor-Client Relationships
In the past, financial advisors and agents typically didn't involve clients in the advice generation process. They worked their magic behind the scenes and then presented clients with the final...
Customer Struggles With Social, Cloud, And Mobile Signal A Transition
Microsoft SharePoint is the centerpiece of many enterprises' collaboration and content strategies, but it isn't clear to us that enterprises will continue to invest in SharePoint to provide a broader...


Small And Medium-Size Businesses Are Defying Gravity
The Interactive Virtual Classroom Replaces Selected Classroom Learning
An interactive virtual classroom is not your usual Webinar, Web conference, or online event. Instead, rather than a lecture, this online instructional approach involves learners who work from...
Why The Validation Process Is Critical To Product Strategy Success
"Ideate" is the first stage in the product development cycle; it's a time when product strategists gather ideas for new and innovative products and services. Before moving on to subsequent phases,...

Your Technology And Culture Create An Environment Of Empowered Employees
Consumerization — employees using devices, applications, and web services without permission — is a threat to the status quo and a risk to the security of the firm. But it's also a key...

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...

These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...
Emerging Opportunities And Imperatives For An IT Industry In Transformation
Rather than quietly maturing into middle age as it enters its seventh decade, the information and communications technology (ICT) industry is continuing to evolve rapidly. The ICT landscape is roiled...
This document provides vendor strategists with an analysis of the key trends in the Asia Pacific IT market in 2010 and previews the top trends that will shape the local market in 2011. This document...
They Will Grow Twice As Fast As The Enterprise Application Market
Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change....

Recent Forrester data about the role of social technology in the enterprise confirms what many business professionals already suspect: more people are using social technologies, and these...
Video is not a fringe format anymore. Increasingly, information workers consume video in the workplace for training purposes, technical help, and real-time communication with colleagues and...
I was wondering if you could recommend any articles or sources for the following: training modality standards for training design (what type of content is best put into eLearning, face-to-face...
Early Adopters Outline The Promise And Prerequisites For Success
The days of Microsoft SharePoint being only a locally installed software product are over. Microsoft's commitment to SharePoint in the cloud is evident in its massive data-center investments, its...

Adobe, Cisco, IBM, And Microsoft Lead In The Web Meeting Scenario
In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of Web conferencing vendors, we found that traditional vendors Adobe, Cisco, IBM Sametime, and Microsoft's two offerings led the pack because of their breadth...
HR Analytics Help Improve Workforce Recruiting, Performance, And Learning
Human resources (HR) analytics have taken on new importance as organizations strive to hire, develop, and retain the best employees to remain competitive in fields where efficiency and human...
Strategic Plan: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Social business and collaboration programs can redefine work by changing the way employees connect with each other and the information they need to do their jobs. However, programs fall flat when...

Are customers viewing decisions to purchase high-end videoconferencing systems and decisions on broadly deployed communications platforms as decisions that are largely taken in isolation? If...
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...
Insights From The Forrsights Networks And Telecommunications Survey, Q1 2012
The connected enterprise is becoming a reality. Businesses require access to the best market information regarding customer demand, supplier options, transport and logistics, and sales patterns. They...

Videoconferencing Players Are Ready To Deliver With Better Solutions
Although the videoconferencing market has existed for more than 20 years, several trends indicate that the market is at an inflection point. Across the marketplace, leading videoconferencing vendors...
What Enterprise Architects Need To Know About The Shift From Records Management To Information Governance
Despite two decades of electronic records management (RM) evolution, fewer than 10% of enterprises admit to high levels of confidence in their approach to the governance of digital information. The...
Traditional process improvement initiatives often resemble top-down social engineering, in which management identifies re-engineering opportunities, processes undergo changes and automation by...
Putting senior managers in place to lead content and collaboration initiatives for their organizations is a growing imperative. Our ongoing work with Forrester clients indicates that the skills mix...