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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:Navigate Digital Disruption With An Emerging Technology Vision

Vision: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Emerging information technology has been a key enabler of business evolution since the 1960s and shows no signs of letting up. As we move beyond simple digitization of information to digital business...

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Blog:What is the right number of applications?

A common question Forrester gets from organizations planning an application rationalization strategy is “How many applications should I aim for?”  It is a good question, but can be...

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Multichannel Capture, Q3 2012

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Blog:The Evolving Role Of Business Architecture

Business architecture has become a bit of a watchword for organizations thinking about their future. It’s about all sorts of things – the “what” we do and “why” we...

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Blog:How Bad Are Firms In China At Data Management?

Data management is becoming critical as organizations seek to better understand and target their customers, drive out inefficiency, and satisfy government regulations. Despite this, the maturity of...

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Blog:Why Maturity Models for Data Governance are irrelevant in the Data Economy?

  There are multiple maturity models and associated assessments for Data Governance on the market. Some are from software vendors, or from consulting companies, which use these as the basis for...

Discussion:Topic Overview: Information Architecture

Information Architecture is not helped by the thin coverage it gets in TOGAF and related standards and training materials. I guess this problem arises from TOGAF's origins, but it is nonetheless...

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Report:Build Your Stepwise Strategy For Business-Centered EA

Strategic Plan: The EA Method Playbook

This report describes the strategic plan of Forrester's EA method playbook — our set of high-value practices that enterprise architects should use to help their organizations plan, architect,...

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Discussion:Create Agile Processes For Introducing Emerging Technology

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Report:Information Architecture Planning Toolkit

As business executives develop an appreciation for the potential value in their information assets, they're looking to architects to help them dramatically improve their information management and...

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Report:Organize Your Business Architecture To Deliver Your Strategy

Organization: The Business Architecture Playbook

This report assists business architecture (BA) leaders in organizing the BA roles and skills needed to successfully execute a business architecture program. One of the major challenges facing...

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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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Discussion:Address The Complex ECM Landscape

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Blog:Data Quality Reboot Series For Big Data: Part 2 Persistence Vs. Disposable Quality

We last spoke about how to reboot our thinking on master data to provide a more flexible and useful structure when working with big data. In the structured data world, having a model to work from...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: BPM Suites, Q1 2013

How The Top 10 Vendors Stack Up For Next-Generation BPM Suites

In Forrester's 59-criteria evaluation of business process management (BPM) suite vendors, we identified the 10 most significant software providers in the category — Appian, Bizagi, Cordys,...

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Discussion:Focus EA Strategy On Changing Business Expectations

Discussion:Has SharePoint become a true BPM delivery tool?

In March 2010 Derek Miers published an informative paper "SharePoint and BPM - Finding the Sweet Spot". Some companies are still showing the tendency to conclude that, since they have SharePoint,...

Discussion:Promote EA Agility And Build Trust

Brian - This research provides a pragmatic framework that will help organizations advance their IT architecture. Well done.

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Blog:Design Thinking Reshapes EA For Dynamic Business

Recently, I interviewed a half dozen top service design agencies to better understand how they work with enterprise architects and business architects inside the client firms they serve. All of the...

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Report:Benchmarking Your Records Management Program

Forrester Research And ARMA International Records Management Online Survey, Q3 2012

Decision-makers report big spending plans for their records management (RM) programs over the next year. Strong RM programs continue to target traditional compliance and information access...

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Discussion:What do you consider "disruptive" technology

We are seeing a lot of interest, particularly from CIOs, to get a handle on disruptive technology, which leads me to think about exactly what it is. My initial thoughts are that technology can...

Discussion:IT Strategy - what does it look like?

I'm trying to convey a simple, accurate, and meaningful depiction of our IT strategy to the business - I want them to understand IT at a certain level of detail so we can start conversations about...

Discussion:Reference Architecture Practices and Examples

Reference Architectures is a subject that seems to be on everyone's mind, mine included. I am struggling in my practice to reach a common understanding of what one is, so I'd thought I'd ask here if...

Discussion:Build The Case For Emerging Technology

One challenge often seen is the focus on silo'd "customer facing" (product centric) and "backoffice" infrastructure (i.e. either or). Though excellent research, this article seems to perpetuate this...