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Report:"Smart Body, Smart World" For Marketers

Sensor Devices Disrupt Marketing Practices

Your customers are becoming even more connected. Sensor-laden devices on our bodies, in our homes, in our cars, and virtually everywhere else are creating new opportunities and demands for marketers....

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Report:Fitness Wearables — Many Products, Few Customers

Product Strategists Must Broaden Wearables' Appeal Beyond Fitness

Wearable devices are part of the next wave of growth and innovation in personal computing, a phenomenon we call "smart body, smart world." Wearables could target any use case, from gaming to...

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Report:Smart Body, Smart World

Sensors, Algorithms, And Psychology Will Power The Next Phase Of Personal Computing

Sensor-laden devices (SLDs) such as wearables and embedded devices — sometimes called "the Internet of Things" — will drive the next phase of growth in personal computing and have the...

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Report:The Rise Of Post-PC Productivity

App Innovators Disrupt The Value Chain Of PC-Era Software Giants

Post-PC devices such as smartphones and tablets inspire new productivity scenarios, and their app stores introduce new ways to distribute and monetize software. Billions of dollars are at stake:...

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Report:Wearable Computing

The Next Devices And Platforms That Matter To Your Product Strategy

Consumers are adopting technology faster than ever: Witness the rapid mainstreaming of devices such as the Apple iPad and Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360. Wearable devices will be next, but right now...

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Report:The Tablet-TV Connection

Tablets and TVs are big business: Forrester forecasts that 112.5 million US consumers will own a tablet by 2016, and tablets are disrupting several multibillion-dollar industries related to TV,...

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Report:Case Study: YouTube Adapts Its Product Strategy For Education

Digital disruption continues to work its way through the education industry, creating new product opportunities for product strategists who are attuned to the industry's changes. Apple's recent...

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Report:US Consumer Tablet Forecast Update, 2011 To 2016

Low-Cost Disruptors Expand Tablets' Addressable Market

With 55 million iPads sold through December 2011, and an estimated 5.5 million Amazon Kindle Fires sold in their first quarter on the market, tablets have gained unstoppable momentum. Forrester...

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Report:Game On: Education Product Strategists Embrace Gamification

Classroom Technology Enables New Product Innovation

"Gamification" is a hot topic in product strategy, especially in US K-12 education. Product strategists in education are helping their customers achieve teaching and learning goals by developing...

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Report:Beyond Tablets: The Next Five Computing Form Factors To Watch

Product Strategists Should Stay Ahead Of Disruption With Innovation Now

Tablets have been the "it" product of 2010 and 2011. But they're not the final form factor. It's time for product strategists to anticipate what's coming next. We've identified five form factors as...

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Report:Use Gamification To Enable A Total Product Experience

Product Strategists Can Boost Product Engagement With Game Mechanics

Product strategists need to begin thinking about how to integrate game mechanics into their product experiences, and this doesn't mean just adding a meaningless game to their applications or...

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Report:Microsoft's Shrinking Window For Tablets

Windows 8 Shows Promise, But Its Fifth-Mover Product Strategy Is Late

Microsoft faces challenges in the tablet market due to its late entry. While Windows 8 looks like a promising product for tablet computing, its release won't come until sometime next year. Though...

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Report:E-Textbooks Are A Transitional Product

To Maximize Revenue, Product Strategists Must Transcend Analog Replicas

Despite minimal pick-up in e-textbook products thus far, publishers know that their historical business models are at risk. Disruptive markets, such as used and rental books, are emerging in response...

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Report:Case Study: Splashtop Product Strategists Create Innovative, Disruptive Education Software

Breaking Into Education Technology Requires Thinking Big And Acting Small

Technology product strategists, frustrated by low margins and fragmented procurement, have long dismissed the education market as too difficult to penetrate. But that's finally changing, thanks to...

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Report:Amazon Will Be Apple's Top Competitor In Tablets

Tablet Product Strategists Should View Amazon As Their New "Frenemy"

With 28.7 million iPads sold worldwide to date, Apple's lead in the tablet market looks invincible. Enter Amazon.com, whose tablet can compete on price, content, and commerce. If it's launched at the...

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Report:Apple Dominates The European Tablet Market, But There's Room For Competition

Lower Prices And More Content Will Broaden Tablets' Appeal Among EU Consumers

Despite Apple's dominance in tablets, product strategists from Acer, Archos, Asus, HP, Motorola, Research In Motion, Samsung, and Toshiba have all launched would-be iPad competitors in Europe. These...

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Report:Why Tablet Commerce May Soon Trump Mobile Commerce

Ownership of tablet devices is poised for rapid growth with tablet users in the US estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 51% from 2010 to 2015. Already a significant percent of...

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Report:Case Study: Intuit Adapts Its Product Portfolio To Exploit Tablets

Innovation Infrastructure Empowers Product Strategists' Success

Product strategists from software, media, finance, healthcare, and other industries can learn from the example of Intuit. Intuit's culture of innovation — including unstructured "white space"...

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Report:The Products That Lose When Tablets Win

Cannibalization Will Accelerate With The Next Wave Of Tablet Buyers

Product strategists regard tablets with an anxious eye, pondering the extent to which tablets will cannibalize products like newspapers, magazines, laptops, netbooks, and TVs. Forrester's data...

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Report:Microsoft Transforms Windows For The Post-PC Era

Windows 8 Has The Potential To Stave Off Defection To Alternative OSes

At Computex in Taipei and the All Things D:9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes this week, Microsoft revealed key details about the next version of Windows, code-named "Windows 8." While there are...

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Report:What The Post-PC Era Really Means

Technological And Social Forces Revolutionize Computing Product Strategy

When Steve Jobs refers to Apple's "post-PC" product portfolio, we hear more than just a buzzword. The post-PC era is real, and its consequences will revolutionize computing product strategy. In this...

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Report:Best Practices For Tablet Media Apps

Leverage These Business Models And Features For Media App Success

Product strategists launching media applications on tablets have an opportunity to launch new products on these devices and enter a new era of media consumption. The tablet is a unique device with...

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Report:Apps And Browsers Will Coexist On Tablets

Improved Tablet Browsers Will Force Apps To Evolve

Product strategists designing content experiences for tablets must decide on their development priorities across apps and browsers. While some proclaim that "the Web is dead," we see improving...

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Report:iPad Challengers Have Flawed Product Strategies

Android Tablets Are Poised To Fail; Amazon.com Could Topple The Apple Cart

With Android smartphone sales surging, it's easy to think that Android-based devices will be the foil to the Apple iPad in the tablet market. But that's not what we see: Miscalculations in pricing...

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Report:Executive Q&A: iPads And Tablets

Consumer Product Strategists' Critical Questions Answered

In the nine months since Apple's iPad hit the shelves, Forrester has conducted more than 200 conversations about iPads and tablets with clients through inquiries, one-on-one meetings at Forrester's...

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