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Change Management: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
This report outlines the change management recommendations of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) and infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives working on mobile security and...
Traditional security awareness initiatives focus on end user activities that help to create a security culture. Unfortunately, these activities don't succeed in obtaining buy-in or engagement from...
Best Practice CIOs Take A Personal Leadership Role In Marketing IT's Value
CIOs list IT-business alignment as a perennial challenge. They fail to achieve the business partnership they seek as the gap persists between business execs' expectations of IT and those execs' sense...
To help IT executives who want to address business satisfaction through a systematic approach, Forrester has developed a list of questions to guide them through the deployment of a list of business...
Use Forrester's Systematic Approach To Understanding Business Satisfaction
IT executives increasingly implement marketing initiatives to improve the communications with their business customers. But these efforts often focus solely on the brand aspects of the services under...
Position overview: This crucial person is responsible for developing and implementing an IT marketing plan to align IT with business.
The Time Is Right: Ready, Aim, Hire!
The lack of marketing in IT is obvious when we take a look at the changes in how IT is perceived. Back in 2006 when Forrester asked how IT's perception had changed, 50% of the respondents stated that...
IT Demand Management Should Face Off Against The Business Organizations
CIOs are improving the way their business clients perceive the IT organization, mostly through actions that improve business' trust of IT — consistent IT processes and transparency of IT's...
Innovative initiatives cascade from corporate strategies down to action. Example? Kimberly-Clark Corporation (K-C) advanced its enterprisewide strategy "to become an indispensable partner to [its]...
Business Change Agent And Innovator — Or Gone
The pace of technology change — and therefore business expectations and IT culture — is accelerating, fueled by three things: IT's brief but turbulent history, a crush of external forces...
Perspectives From Forrester Client Roundtables
IT executives are well aware of the requirement to market IT, although they are not always certain whose job it is, how much to do, or which channels to use — based on perspectives offered by...
CIOs increasingly turn to the marketing of IT to deliver clear, accurate, and timely communications with IT's business constituents. But many of these efforts overwhelm the users while failing to...
How To See It And What To Do About It
While CIOs understand that the world of technology is always changing, some may not be alert to the implications of business, organizational, or expectation change. And they are not always aware that...
Mark Hurd's Advice — IT Is An Investment
In a recent keynote address to industry analysts, Mark Hurd, CEO of Hewlett Packard, surprisingly focused a substantial portion of his remarks on the effort underway at HP to transform each of the...
IT executives are occasionally asked to present to the highest level of enterprise oversight, the board of directors, usually at the recommendation and invitation of the CEO. A board presentation is...
Quickly: The CIO must become a teacher.
An Overview And Slide Structure Template for CIOs
IT executives are occasionally asked to present to the highest level of enterprise oversight, the board of directors, usually at the recommendation and invitation of the CEO. A board presentation is...
CEOs And CIOs Need Loftier Aspirations For IT's Contribution
IT executives continue to cite IT-business alignment as a key worry; at first glance, however, they shouldn't worry — the boss likes them. On deeper reflection, many CIOs and their shareholders...