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Report:Data Governance Equals Business Opportunity. No, Really

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...

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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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Report:Pivot Your Data Strategy And Architecture To Unleash Business Transformation

Assessment: The Data Management Playbook

Enterprise architects who drive data management strategy must contend with new data source platforms and complex consumption and analysis scenarios. Current data management systems were built as...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs Are Not Ready To Support Business Innovation

Benchmarks: The Innovation Playbook

While innovation is a hot topic among most of the organizations we work with, our recent survey of IT leaders indicates that a minority of firms have formalized their practices and processes. Only...

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Report:Building BT Governance Capabilities — A Practitioners' Perspective

The BT Governance Collection: Practitioners' Experiences

As technologies and markets change rapidly, senior executives need to revisit traditional IT governance. They need to identify and deploy next-generation practices to support the CIO's transition...

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Report:Measuring BT Governance Outcomes Through Balanced Scorecards

The BT Governance Collection: Communications

Implementing strong business technology (BT) governance is on the agenda for many organizations as they continue the seemingly endless pursuits of aligning IT and business strategy, getting more...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Establish Ongoing Processes To Assess Your Business Intelligence Maturity

Assessment: The Business Intelligence Playbook

Forrester's business intelligence (BI) maturity self-assessment model helps BI professionals quickly assess the maturity of their current-state environments. It also allows BI pros to benchmark their...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Capitalize On SaaS CRM Solutions With Better Governance

Processes: The CRM Playbook

This report prescribes solution governance best practices for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals who implement "cloud" customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. While...

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Report:The What And How Of Business Technology Decision-Making

The BT Governance Collection: Outcomes And Processes

Business technology (BT) governance concerns itself with decisions around investing in IT-enabled business change. As an integral part of business strategy, BT governance is exercised by senior...

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Report:The Who Of Business Technology Decision-Making

The BT Governance Collection: Stakeholders And Structures

Enterprise governance is about decision rights: who has input into decisions, who makes them, how are outcomes measured, and who is held accountable for those outcomes. Business technology (BT)...

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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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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 CIO Professionals

Report:The Future Of Business Technology Governance

The BT Governance Collection: Principles And Strategies

"Good" technology governance is business technology (BT) governance — a conscious effort by senior executives to establish strategies, structures, processes, and measurements for the management...

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Report:Unleash Innovation With Good Governance

Governance: The Innovation Playbook

Does your organization struggle to innovate? As organizations work to acquire and maintain competitive differentiation in a global marketplace, they often look to innovation as a key strategic...

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Report:Write An Effective Cloud Use Policy

Encourage Cloud Consumption The Right Way

You know your company is using cloud services; our Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2011 shows that the average enterprise has between four and 12 software-as-a-service (SaaS) services in use already,...

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Report:Rearchitect Governance For Sustainable Business Agility

Governance: The EA Method Playbook

In an era of rapid business change, IT governance is often seen as a barrier. Governance too frequently means delay, overhead, and inflexible standards and strategies leading to missed opportunities...

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Report:Measure And Manage The Innovation Process

Performance Management: The Innovation Playbook

In today's rapidly changing global marketplace, an organization's innovation process is critical to competitive survival, regardless of the industry. Innovation takes many forms ranging from small,...

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Report:The CIO's Role In The Social Business Policy

Policy And Procedures: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

A clear social business policy is an essential guide for employees using social and collaboration tools for customer engagement and for internal or partner collaboration. While it takes a...

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Report:Sustained Innovation Propels The Business Engine

Business Impact: The Innovation Playbook

"Innovate or die" is not just a catchy slogan — it's the nature of business today. Shortened business cycles, competitors entering and establishing market presence overnight, and social...

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Report:Fuel Business Growth Via The BT Innovation Portfolio

Portfolio Management: The Innovation Playbook

While many organizations believe that they can generate innovative ideas, few have defined processes to empirically evaluate the ideas and make the proper funding decisions on a case-by-case basis....

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Report:Multiple PaaS Flavors Hit The Enterprise

Understanding The Fragmented Platform-As-A-Service Market

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is a confusing category, as the term "PaaS" is applied to cloud services with very different capabilities — and new options are appearing every month. Many...

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Report:The Forrester Readiness Assessment For High-Performance EA

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Report:Focus EA Impact On Planning, Governance, And Innovation

This report outlines the high-level business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on building a high-performance EA practice. Describing the added...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Innovation and Transformation Imperatives Drive ASEAN IT Services Growth

The IT services market in Asia Pacific is highly fragmented with greatly differentiated maturity levels and spending behaviors. Forrester believes that a combination of business drivers (the...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Three Fundamentals Of BPM Governance

Large, cross-functional business process management (BPM) programs cannot function without well-designed governance, undertaken with substantial involvement from business stakeholders and process...

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