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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Purchasing The Building Blocks For Data Management

Tools And Technology: The Data Management Playbook

Today's enterprise data architecture is changing to accommodate models and definitions that are frequently abstracted from data sources, federated sources, and data analytics performed during the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Drive Information Strategy Performance Management With Capability Models

Performance Management: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

As capability maps become the prevailing form for modeling business architectures, capability-based planning is growing into an effective practice to map organizations' general path forward....

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Create KPIs That Show The Effectiveness Of Your Information Strategy

Continuous Improvement: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

How effective is your information strategy? You can't answer that question without a comprehensive assessment process and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting mechanism that specifically targets...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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: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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of EA 2013: Information And Business Architecture Take Hold; New Hardships Arise

Landscape: The EA Practice Playbook

Since 2009, Forrester's global state of enterprise architecture (EA) online survey has tracked the trends, priorities, and challenges of the EA practice. In our latest survey, the scale of EA value...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Craft Your Future State BI Reference Architecture

Road Map: The Business Intelligence Playbook

In the face of rising data volume and complexity and increased need for self-service, enterprises need an effective business intelligence (BI) reference architecture to utilize BI as a key corporate...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Readiness Assessment For Information Strategy And Architecture Toolkit

Developing a cohesive information strategy that can deliver on current and future business needs is challenging. Building an information architecture is a highly collaborative endeavor, and to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Define The Shifting Responsibilities Of The Information Architect

Organization: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

This report outlines the organization element of the information strategy and architecture playbook for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals. The definition of the information architect role...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:A Framework For Information Management And Consumption Technology

Tools And Technology: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Enterprise architects carry the heavy responsibility of planning for elaborate implementations of complex technology. They must weigh the implications of the plans for all of the related architecture...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Assess Your Readiness For A Cohesive Information Strategy And Architecture Program

Assessment: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Information workers thrive or falter depending on their ability to get the information they need quickly and easily, with high confidence that it's the right information. Enterprises need to protect...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Focus Your Information Strategy On Business Impact

Executive Overview: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals face the challenge of burgeoning business interest in maximizing the potential of new and existing information assets in the face of immature information...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Staffing For Social Business And Collaboration Success

Skills And Staffing: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

All too often, IT approaches staffing for social business and collaboration initiatives as it would other IT-led projects. With a focus on providing the best technical solution possible, the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Create Your Information Governance Framework

Processes: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Information governance ensures that your information management program not only meets technical requirements but also provides the organization with the guarantee that information is reliable,...

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Report:Treat Information As A Strategic Asset

Business Case: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Business cases to fund information management capabilities traditionally characterize information problems in ways that elicit little more than yawns from business executives. Data redundancy and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Develop Business-Focused And Strategic EA Organizations

Organization: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the organizational structures, roles, and skills you'll need to make sure that your enterprise architecture (EA) program is strategic, business-focused, and pragmatic. Building a...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Integrated BA And IA Artifacts Are Valuable — And Hard To Find

Forrester's survey data shows that both business and information architecture practices are currently far less mature than enterprise architecture (EA) teams' technology and application architecture...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Information Architecture Deliverables: What Matters Most?

Five Artifacts Underpin An Effective Program

Architects in any domain have no time to waste creating deliverables that wind up collecting dust on a shelf. Information architects, who have historically had a particularly difficult time engaging...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Updated Q2 2011: Simplifying Information Architecture

Creating An IA Program That Works

It has been more than five years since Forrester first published this report outlining a simple approach to information architecture, but this domain of enterprise architecture (EA) has matured...

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Report:Big Opportunities In Big Data

Positioning Your Firm To Capitalize In A Sea Of Information

Opportunities to improve the bottom line exist in a flood of information; however, gaining insight from data becomes challenging as it grows extremely large. Emerging technology applies the power of...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Freescale Semiconductor Uses Data Services To Analyze Real-Time Data

Advances in technology that enable real-time data integration and analysis raise the bar for organizations' in-house information management capabilities, but they can provide significant advances in...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Injecting Next-Generation Thinking Into Your Financial Services Acquisition Website

Technology Is Just Part Of The Answer To Building A Next-Generation Sales Site

The next generation of online financial services sales needs more of a change in thinking and approach than a change in technology. Forrester believes the next generation of online sales in financial...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Forrester's Data Management Reference Architecture

Align Data Management Roles To Create Stronger Business Value

The continuing explosion in data volume, increasing numbers of business users, growing data complexity, compliance requirements, need to support global operations, and growing need for real-time...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Case Study: International Power's Information Workplace

As late as 2008, UK-based International Power didn't even have an intranet. Driven by the conviction that better-managed critical business knowledge could create a competitive advantage, the company...

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