Forrester

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Make EA Business-Focused, Strategic, And Pragmatic

Future Look: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the future look of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. It will help you understand the future of EA in...

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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

Tool:Top EA Drivers

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Business Capability Architecture: Use Business Outcomes To Drive Technology Strategy

Business capability maps, as a key element of business architecture, are central to laying a new and better foundation for technology strategy. To build on this foundation, we introduce Forrester's...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Why Strategic Functions Fail

Part 3 Of A Three-Part Series On Why Key IT Roles Fail

Certain roles in IT can significantly change the organization for good or bad. Through a combination of surveys, interviews, and consulting engagements, we gathered in-depth information on the common...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Is The Role Of The Data Architect In Support Of EA?

What is the role of the data architect in support of EA?

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Tool:Participating Firms Represent The Financial Services Industry

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Skills Development Tool Kit

A Catalogue Of Skills Development Plans And Techniques Based On Insights From EA Managers

This tool kit will help address how to develop the skills needed to prime the EA team for success. We provide a variety of proven and tested architecture skills development techniques suggested by...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Got Content? You Need Information Architects

The inability to find content, a lack of compliance, and poor customer experiences all add up to real costs. If you care about getting the right information to the right people at the right time and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Corporate Management's Support For EA Is Low

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Best Practices: EAMS Implementation Self-Diagnostic Tool

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:Use Forrester's Architecture Review Tool Kit To Advance Your EA Program

Materials To Implement A Scalable Project Architecture Review Process

Project architecture review is an essential practice EA teams should use to advance enterprise architecture strategies. A well-designed and transparent review process provides a counterbalance to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Fast-Tracking EA Renewal

Building An EA Program For "Dummies"

As businesses begin to look past the economic downturn, they are executing strategies that require a changed IT mission and plan. This in turn is changing the needs and expectations the EA function...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Build Your Skills Development Road Map For Achieving BPM Excellence

Skills And Staffing: The Business Process Management Playbook

Lack of sufficient business process skills continues to dog progress and momentum for enterprisewide business process management (BPM) initiatives. Yet when it comes to growing BPM skills, most...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Forrester's Enterprise Reference Architecture Tool Kit: Examples And Process Guides

Design patterns, proven technology stacks, and well-documented application infrastructure are fundamental tools for promoting common practices in the design of business solutions. Enterprises create...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Can You Please Provide Feedback On Potential Vision Statements For A BA Organization?

I am trying to develop a solid vision statement for our business architecture (BA) organization that is supported by our mission. The vision statement represents the future, is result-oriented, and...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Transformation Imperative In Financial Services Defies Any Crisis

The Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey Continues To Show A Focus On Transformation

Today's financial services firms often find that their application landscape is no longer able to cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Execute On Your EA Practice Strategy

Road Map: The EA Practice Playbook

This report describes how to turn a strategy into a road map for execution and how to overcome common impediments to high-performance enterprise architecture (EA). EA programs too often get pulled in...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Is The Role Of The Business Architect In Support Of EA?

What is the role of the business architect in support of EA?

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Role Frequency In EA Groups

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EAs: Use POST To Define Your Collaboration Strategy

An Empowered Document: Your Collaboration Strategy Should Be People-Centric, Not Tech-Centric

Technology is diffusing throughout your business, and traditional means of IT oversight have become less effective in this age of empowered HEROes. Enterprise architects (EAs) should use new means of...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Starting Or Restarting An EA Effort

Enterprise architecture (EA) continues to gain recognition as a key practice for maximizing the impact of business' use of technology. An effective EA practice can eliminate business-IT alignment...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Forrester Readiness Assessment For High-Performance EA

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Tool:A Majority Of Firms Have Begun Or Have Plans To Renew Their Application Landscape