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Business capability maps have become an essential tool for business architects. They represent a holistic view of the capabilities required by an organization to deliver its value proposition to its...
How To Develop A Business Capability Map
This PPT shows you how to develop a business capability map. Please see "Forrester's Business Capability Map Development: Tool" to access the tool.
Your company's core relationship with its customers is being transformed by technology. In the "age of the customer," organizations that harness digital technologies to understand and engage with...
Contextual Marketing Demands A Unique Approach To Tablets
Too many marketing leaders still lump tablets and smartphones in the same mobile bucket. That's a mistake. Why? Because tablets are not primarily mobile devices. Instead, they are mostly used within...
Focus On Overcoming Likely Adoption Challenges
Forrester expects companies will spend more than $1 billion in 2013 on expanding, upgrading, or replacing their ePurchasing systems. While most will reap significant benefits from their investment,...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Spending on paid search and search engine optimization (SEO) for each of the 17 Western European countries. Segments paid search spending by 11 different verticals. Includes historical...
To help security and risk professionals navigate the complex landscape of privacy laws around the world, Forrester created a data privacy heat map that highlights the data protection guidelines and...
The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Since Forrester published its first Wave™ evaluation on marketing mix modeling in 2011, the market has undergone significant growth and evolution as marketers demand more in-depth, real-time,...
Landscape: The EA Method Playbook
Digital is increasingly part of products and services offerings — provoking disruption to the old ways of doing things. Companies are facing uncertain market changes and economic conditions,...
Best Practices: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook
Every year, Forrester uses the results of its Customer Experience Index benchmark to see which firms made big strides in the race for customer experience excellence. This report summarizes what we...
Empowered buyers, disruptive digital innovations, and removal of global and traditional boundaries erase traditional types of competitive advantage. We are now in an era in which competition comes...
Forrester's research with senior marketing leaders shows that enterprisewide commitment and engagement are critical to successfully building a brand in the 21st century. But this is also marketers'...
Processes: The Data Management Playbook
Forrester clients describe their data governance work as long on effort, but limited in success. Clients describe an inability to sustain data governance beyond a project, feel it is too...

Vision: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the...
Protect Yourself From Hacktivists And Other Cybercriminals
Until recently, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks had been part of infosec lore: something you heard about but rarely experienced. With the rise of hacktivist groups and other...
The reporting structure of an IT organization affects how roles operate in that shop. The structure must support the goals of the organization and be consistent with its culture and capabilities....

Road Map: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
This report outlines the road map portion of Forrester's solution for interactive marketing executives working on digital media buying. Moving to a higher level of digital media buying maturity...
Forrester data continues to show employee demand for business ready smartphones, tablets, and mobile applications. This presentation walks you through our data and provides insight into how your...
Disruption Drives 12 Trends In Digital Insurance Agendas
There's one word that sums up what's going on in the business of insurance right now: disruption. There are four drivers behind the state that the industry is in, all of which have implications...
Road Map: The Agile Commerce Playbook
Developing a vision and building a strategic plan are vital first steps on the road to agile commerce. But once your CEO says "yes," what next? Getting ready for action and taking the first concrete...
Assessment: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook
This report outlines for IT professionals more than 100 essential practices for organizations looking to deliver their digital experience transformation strategies. It asks questions such as: Do you...
But Workers Should Have The Freedom To Use Windows 8 Devices
Windows 8 is the boldest release of the OS since Windows 95. Microsoft chose to discard the Start button in favor of a new look designed to tie together the PC, tablet, and, smartphone experience....
Be Ready To Comply With Dynamic Regulatory Changes
Understanding the laws and regulations that govern data privacy across your organization is critical for any company, but it can be challenging. As a result, too many security and risk (S&R)...
As Multidevice Adoption Spreads, Today's Weak Attachment To Vendor Ecosystems Will Strengthen
Personal technology vendors are engaged in a battle for their customers' loyalty, which (they hope) will translate to ongoing investment in related devices, software, and services. As individuals...

Global Banking Platform Deals 2012 — Regions
Forrester surveyed 29 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2012 deals. Our analysis of these deals by region reveals that growth ranged widely — from slight shrinkage to...