Forrester

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Trends In Aligning Capabilities, Skills, And Tools For BPM COE Programs

These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 BPM Center Of Excellence Online Survey.

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Get To Know Your 2010 Business Analysts

In Q3 2010, Forrester Research and the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) partnered to survey 1,461 business analysts (BAs), systems analysts, software requirements engineers, and...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Twelve Recommendations For Your 2011 Security Strategy

Governance, Maturity, And Analytics Are The Major Themes For 2011

Every winter Forrester outlines 12 important recommendations for your security strategy for the coming year. We base these recommendations on hundreds of client inquiries, numerous consulting...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Build A Strategic Security Program And Organization

Strategic Plan: The S&R Practice Playbook

This report outlines the strategic vision of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) professionals looking to build a high-performance security program and organization. This report is...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Aligning Vendor Management Responsibilities To Your IT Organization's Mandate

IT Archetype Serves As The Foundation For Effective Organizational Alignment

Although most companies understand the need for a more strategic vendor management office (VMO), many of these companies don't know where to organize their vendor management activities. Because...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:How Business Process Pros Can Increase IT's Business Process Orientation

Six Steps Process Professionals And IT Need To Perform In Collaboration

Business process professionals (BPPs) often complain about IT's ability to support them in delivering the performance optimization they are expected to provide together. The problem seems rooted in...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Sample Business Architect Job Descriptions

For CIO Professionals

Report:Empowered Business Technology Defined

The Future IT Organization And Its Implications For CIOs

The empowered era has brought about a paradigm shift for IT organizations. Employees and customers are no longer relying on IT to provision and manage technology. They are using social, mobile,...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Six Business Technology Trends That Will Propel Your Firm In 2013

From Technology Foundations To Business Outcomes

Forrester sees six important trends unfolding in business technology (BT), where information technology will most directly and visibly affect business outcomes. Not having an initiative or effort...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Fourteen Business Architecture Challenges And How To Overcome Them

A small subset of enterprise architects have established robust business architecture practices and are currently delivering business and IT value through business architecture initiatives. But many...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:EA Can Build The Case But Has Trouble Selling IT

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:SVM Activities, Roles, And Skills Are Evolving

Skills And Staffing: The SVM Practice Playbook

Many sourcing and vendor management organizations (SVMOs) are delivering effectively against their core mandate today, despite resource constraints. However, most SVM professionals are mapping their...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Break Down Silos With An Emerging Technology Road Map

Road Map: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Firms increasingly depend on technology to be innovative and disruptive. However, our data indicates that most firms are not doing a good job of getting new technology in the door and ensuring that...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:The New Threat Landscape: Proceed With Caution

Understand The New Threat Paradigm To Make Your Responses More Effective

The information security threat landscape is changing rapidly, and many security organizations are struggling to keep up with the changing nature, complexity, and scale of attacks. Not only is it...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:The Feeding Frenzy Over The Mobile Developer Channel

Lessons For Winning Developer Support From The Smartphone/Tablet Battlefield

Every significant technology leap forward, such as the emergence of viable smartphone and tablet platforms, catalyzes competitive turbulence among tech companies seeking developer attention. But the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Integration Competency Centers Help Large Enterprises Solve Integration Complexity

Integration competency centers (ICCs) have proven to be key catalysts for integration project success, and IT organizations are deploying them in growing numbers. However, the size and mission of the...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Don't Bore Your Executives — Speak To Them In A Language That They Understand

Seven Critical Executive-Level Metrics For CISOs And The Business

The ability to communicate effectively has always been a core competency for any business executive, and today's chief information security officer (CISO) is fast becoming a business executive. The...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Securing An Empowered Organization

An Empowered Report: Run At The Threat, Shape The Future Of Your Company

Employees are provisioning themselves with consumer and cloud technology. Forrester's study of US information workers reveals that 37% are doing something with technology without permission. And not...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Trends In Business Intelligence Organizational Structures

This set of data charts presents the results of the May 2011 Global Business Intelligence Organization Online Survey.

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Information Strategies Move Center Stage

Vision: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Five Strategies For Leading Diverse, Distributed Teams To Success

Leading teams is a job not for the faint of heart — particularly when those teams are multicultural, geographically distributed, and composed of individuals who work for multiple companies with...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Reinvent Security Awareness To Engage The Human Firewall

Change Management: The S&R Practice Playbook

For too long, creating security awareness has been an afterthought, something CISOs did in their spare time after putting out the operational fires that sprang up around them with alarming...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of EA 2010

EA's Top Focus: Overcoming Long-Standing Obstacles

Forrester's "State Of EA 2010" report shows consistent themes and incremental progress by the enterprise architecture (EA) function in most firms. EA leaders are part of senior IT management and have...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Revamp Your Organization For Agile And Lean

Skills And Staffing: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines the skills and staffing part of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives working on Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs act...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Onboard The Business To Your Cloud Strategy

Change Management: The Cloud Computing Playbook

It's all too easy for CIOs and IT departments to build a strategy around any new technology area that is focused on delivering lower IT costs and greater operational efficiency. However, to get your...

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