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For CIO Professionals

Report:Tracking The Renegade Technology Buyer

Understanding The What And Why Of Business Executives' Spending On Technology

After nearly a decade in hibernation, the business buyer has re-emerged as a major spender and force in IT spending. To better understand the return of tech spending outside the formal IT budget and...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Market Overview: IT Services In China, 2013

Businesses Now Have More Options To Drive Competitive Differentiation In China

China has entered a new phase of economic development, driven by government focus on expanding the domestic market. This transition will have a significant impact on private and public organizations...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2013 And 2014: Better Times Ahead

We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years

US CIOs remain torn between their need to invest in new mobile, cloud, and smart technologies and their fear of encountering economic doldrums (or worse). Over the past two and a half years, these...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Market Taxonomy: Product Development Services, Q1 2013

Provider Capabilities Vary By Vertical And Domain Focus

The product development services market is transforming. Stagnant growth in the telecom and independent software vendor (ISV) markets has forced a shift in focus toward industries such as healthcare,...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Information Security Consulting Services, Q1 2013

Ernst & Young, Deloitte, IBM, Accenture, PwC, And KPMG Lead, With Wipro Following Close Behind

The information security consulting market is growing explosively because security and risk professionals often lack the skill and bandwidth to accomplish their increasingly difficult mission. To...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Asia Pacific Tech Market Outlook For 2012 To 2014

Political Inertia Hampers Asian Economic And Tech Market Growth

The Asia Pacific region is often thought of as the growth engine of the global economy and thus of the tech market. But that engine has been misfiring on some key cylinders, leading to slower growth...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Budgets And Priorities: Global Benchmark 2012

Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs

CIOs are under more pressure to do more things, do them faster, and do them with less money than ever before. This has made the IT budget process increasingly stressful and often contentious, as...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Cloud Investments Will Reconfigure Future IT Budgets

As-A-Service Computing Will Shift Budgets From New Project Spending To Ongoing MOOSE Expenditures

In 2012, for most CIOs, spending to maintain and operate the organization, systems, and equipment (MOOSE) represents more than 70% of their information and communications technology (ICT) budget on a...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Global Tech Market Outlook 2013 To 2014

In Local Currencies, The US Will Lead 5.4% Global Tech Market Growth In 2013 And 6.7% Growth In 2014

The 2013 to 2014 period will see a different pattern of tech market dynamics than what prevailed in 2012, forcing CIOs and business tech buyers to adjust their spending plans to take advantage of new...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Segmenting The US Tech Market

SMBs' Tech Buying Outpaces That Of Enterprises Or Consumers, But The Situation Will Reverse In 2013

For CIOs, understanding trends in the broader tech market is useful, but even more useful is information on trends for companies of their size and in their industry. With IT consumerization or...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:It Takes An Innovation Network

Build/Buy Capabilities: The Innovation Playbook

Few firms have the resources and wherewithal to go it alone in the face of the current climate of almost continual business disruption. Just as a firm may look to partners and suppliers to complement...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: IT Organization Redesign Consultancies, Q4 2012

New technologies, service offerings, business changes, and other factors are driving CIOs to change the structure, processes, governance, and culture of IT organizations. However, redesigns are an...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Business Intelligence Services Providers, Q4 2012

The 12 Market Leaders That Deserve To Be On Most Shortlists

In the past few years, the business intelligence (BI) services market has evolved significantly: advisory and management consulting firms have beefed up their implementation capabilities, while...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Asian Business Leaders Increasingly Lead Tech Buying Processes

In Asia, the CIO no longer has sole responsibility for making tech investment decisions. Consumerization and the increasing role of technology as a business enabler are pushing...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Case Study: LOCOG Builds Partnerships To Deliver London 2012 Faster, Higher, Stronger

An Example Of Forrester's Best Practices For Strategic Relationships

The Olympic motto is "Citius, Altius, Fortius," and the business technology (BT) for the London 2012 Olympic Games lived up to it — faster results, higher-quality systems with stronger...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:China Tech Market Outlook: 2012 To 2013

The Big Dragon's IT Spending Will Slow Down In 2012

The European debt crisis has gradually begun to affect China, slowing economic growth in the country in the first half of 2012. To reflect this, we've revised our China tech market forecast and...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Selecting A Product Development Services Provider

Focus On Providers That Generate Innovation And Speed Time-To-Market, Not Just Deliver Cost Savings

This report outlines the key criteria that sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals can use when helping product development teams during the selection of a product development services...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook Dims For 2012 To 2013

US Tech Spending Growth Will Maintain A Mediocre 4% To 5% Pace

This report details Forrester's projections of tech market growth in the US. We have reduced our forecast for 2012 growth in the US tech market from our April projections of 7.5% for total US...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Source Business Technology Resiliency Capabilities

Tools And Technology: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

When anxious executives ask you to improve or maintain business resiliency across the enterprise, it's likely that you'll need help. The skills and expertise required to stay on top of key trends,...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Global Tech Market Outlook 2012 To 2013

Economic Weakness Will Slow, But Not, Stop Growth

CIOs tracking broader tech market trends to see where their firms stand face a mixed picture, depending on their location. On a global basis, the European recession and weakening economic growth in...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Rightsource Your Agile-Lean Ecosystem

Build/Buy Capabilities: The Agile And Lean Playbook

Agile and Lean transformations depend to a great extent on cultivating a good sourcing ecosystem. The decisions you make around the partners and providers supporting your transformation and projects...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:SVM's New Stakeholder: Product Development

Changes In Product Development Provide An Opportunity For Sourcing Professionals To Move To The Heart Of The Business

Product development teams are faced with a myriad of pressures caused by the pervasiveness of technology, increased competition, and new requirements from customers. But at the same time, they are...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Canadian Tech Market 2012 To 2013

Economic Worries Lead Canadian CIOs To Cut Back ICT Purchases

Canada's CIOs and tech buyers are behaving as if Canada is heading for a recession — and it's not. Indeed, while the Canadian economy is growing at about the same 4% rate (at current prices) as...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Business Technology Transformation, Q3 2012

The Majority Of The Vendors Are Leaders In This Emerging Market

Today, business transformation is often about technology transformation. At the very least, business transformation is always technology-enabled, so what sort of consultants can best help clients...

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Report:Asset-Based IT Services Shift Service Vendors' Operating Models

Four Crucial Steps To Succeed With Asset-Based IT Services Offerings

Forrrester has previously described why the move to software asset-based offerings has been slow to date and what steps service vendors are increasingly taking in order to successfully grow their...

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