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Report:Six Business Technology Trends That Will Propel Your Firm In 2013

From Technology Foundations To Business Outcomes

Forrester sees six important trends unfolding in business technology (BT), where information technology will most directly and visibly affect business outcomes. Not having an initiative or effort...

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Blog:Business Value, Not Regulation, Sells Sustainable IT

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Blog:What's On The Radar For Sustainability Research In 2011?

  Last week, Forrester gathered its 1,200 worldwide employees together for an offsite meeting in Boston to kick off our agenda and plans for 2011 and beyond. It was the first time we had gotten...

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Blog:How Smart Computing Is Fueling The Next Wave Of IT Growth

In 2009, my research team here at Forrester published a report on what we called "smart computing," a new generation of hardware, software, and networks that connects physical infrastructure with...

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Blog:Are Sustainability Conferences Sustainable?

That was my thought as I sat down to a lovely banquet dinner to kick off the Low-Carbon Earth Summit (LCES) in Dalian China a couple of weeks ago. I was lucky enough to be on the keynote agenda at...

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Blog:Navigating The World Of Sustainability Solution Players

My research team at Forrester helps tech vendor strategists anticipate and navigate in rapidly changing market environments. We can't take a siloed view on specific product and service...

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Blog:IT Spending Rebound Will Mean More Spending On Sustainability Software And Services

Forrester's latest forecast for the technology economy is bullish, which by extension means good news for providers of software and services focused on improving corporate sustainability. In our...

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Blog:A View Of VERGE From An IT Expert's Perspective

Part of my role managing the Business Technology Futures team at Forrester is to keep an eye on "what's next" for CIOs and their business partners. My team is chartered to create an early-warning...

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Blog:How Students Can Move Environmental Issues Higher On The CEO Priority List

My research team’s charter here at Forrester is to “Predict and quantify growth and disruption in the tech industry.” That means we’re always on the lookout for the next big...

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Blog:How The Sustainability Boom Changes Business As Usual For Green Suppliers

Call me crazy, but there's a revival of interest in sustainability underway. Despite the Collapse in Copenhagen, the Demise of (US) Cap & Trade, and the ongoing Great Recession, companies around...

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Blog:In Sustainability, Britannia Rules

I was in London last week, delivering the opening keynote at the Green IT Expo conference. I had previously spoken at this event back in 2008, and it was nice to see a bigger crowd of perhaps...

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Blog:The Overall IT Budget Environment Has Turned Positive

Forrester’s newest survey of the IT spending environment has encouraging news that underpins our forecasts of a rebound in industry fortunes after the nasty recession of 2008-09. The good news...

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Blog:Three ICT Roadblocks In Realizing Smarter Buildings' Potential

The promise of smart buildings is cropping up across the ICT industry lately. Our calendar of vendor briefings and events is crowded with announcements of new products, acquisitions, and...

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Client Inquiry:Sustainability Practice Networking And Conferences

What would you recommend for us regarding our sustainability practice in terms of the following: conference forums to attend, conferences and forums to sponsor and/or speak at, thought leadership...

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Blog:How To Make The CFO A Buyer For Sustainability Solutions

Most of the suppliers of IT-for-sustainability (ITfS) solutions that we work with have one path to finding a buyer in their customer organizations: through the IT organization. Whether giants, such...

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Blog:6 Types Of Sustainability Software That Meet Any Company's Needs

It's been clear for some time that sustainability is moving from the periphery toward the center of many companies' strategic agendas, and that IT systems and software will play a crucial...

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Blog:IT For Sustainability Will Drive The Next Wave Of Corporate Evolution

Environmental concerns like climate change have not yet become the primary driver for businesses to define, implement, and execute a dedicated sustainability strategy. Rather, sustainability...

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Blog:Sustainability Doesn't Sell ... Or Does It?

Let me start off this post on a downbeat note: Improving sustainability is not a high priority for companies, according to data from the recent Forrester survey of business decision-makers. The...

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Blog:Green IT Adoption Is Driven by Business, Not Environmental, Considerations

I've been leading Forrester's efforts in sustainable computing and green IT for the past three years, with a particular focus on the role of IT professionals and assets in...

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Blog:Bottom-Up Innovations That Change How IT Does Sustainability

There is still another quiet day or two on the fresh page of my calendar, before the new year really gets going. Schools are still playing Bowl games, and the tree is still up (if brown-ish), so it...

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Blog:2 Big Shifts Taking Us To More Resource-Efficient Computing

In the last couple of weeks, I finally put a couple of pieces together . . . the tech industry is pushing hard, down two parallel tracks, toward much more resource-efficient computing architectures....

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Blog:How The IT Industry's Posture On Sustainability Moves From Defense ("Green IT") To Offense ("IT for Green")

  My work at Forrester is focused on helping strategists at IT suppliers (vendors) align their development, positioning, and messaging with the big trends and disruptions in the industry....

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Report:Corporate Sustainability Will Depend On IT Solutions

Six Types Of IT For Sustainability Solutions Drive Sustainable Performance

Improving the environmental sustainability of corporate processes and products is slowly but surely moving up the strategic agenda of large companies around the world. In interviewing sustainability...

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Report:Another Year Of Outperformance For The Tech Industry

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.

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Blog:A New Online Resource For Vendor Strategists

The Forrester Vendor Strategy Professionals team is excited to introduce a new way for strategists and marketers at tech suppliers to discuss and offer advice on their peers' most...