Forrester

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Measure The Business Impact Of Improved App Strategy

Business Case: The Business Applications Playbook

This report outlines the business case component of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. If you're debating...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Leveraging Outsourcing Services To Accelerate IT Maturation

Emerging Asia Steps Up

In terms of IT maturity, companies in emerging Asia — that is, Asia Pacific excluding Australia, Japan, and New Zealand — lag behind their Western counterparts. Up to now, the lack of...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:How Does Social Media Contribute To Customer Experience? Let Us Count The Ways

It's Time To Document Best Practices For Social Media And Customer Experience

Social media already plays a role at each step of customers' complex journeys to discover, evaluate, buy, access, use, and get support for products and services. Customer experience professionals...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:European IT Outsourcing — A Review Of A Market In Transition

The European outsourcing market has continued to see a high level of activity over the past 24 months, with Forrester tracking 340 deals in 2010 and 220 deals in the first half of 2011. However, as...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Gaining Executive-Level Access

Executive buyers respond well to clear, personalized, easily scannable emails as a way to raise their interest in taking a meeting. The things that motivate executives to take a meeting fall into two...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2012

Business Case: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

This report outlines the business case for customer experience professionals seeking to discover the business benefits of improving customer experience in an experience-driven organization. Years of...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Humdrum Hardware: Why Google And Microsoft Are Goading Their Partners To Innovate

Google Nexus and Microsoft Surface Force OEMs To Up Their Games

Google's and Microsoft's efforts to launch first-party hardware, form exclusive partnerships, and acquire partners are disrupting the status quo within their ecosystems. These changes are driven...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2012 US Auto Insurance Secure Site Rankings

Forrester assessed the secure websites of five American private passenger auto insurers: Allstate Insurance, Geico, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Progressive Casualty Insurance, and State Farm Mutual...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Process-Driven Transformation Will Depend On Stronger Business-IT Partnerships

How IT Will Forge Lasting Relationships With Process Owners And Process Teams

Business process transformation requires an unprecedented level of collaboration among business owners, process teams, and IT, three groups not accustomed to working together. IT usually limits...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:M2M Connectivity Helps Telcos Offset Declining Traditional Services

But They Are Poorly Positioned For The Larger Value-Added Service Opportunity

Telcos face increasing pressure on traditional voice revenues and seek new revenues from services leveraging existing assets. Machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies, including radio frequency...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Smart Process Applications Fill A Big Business Gap

They Will Grow Twice As Fast As The Enterprise Application Market

Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Selecting Technologies That Support The Business

Technology Vision Toolkit: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook

This toolkit is a companion to the "Track Tech Trends That Influence Business Strategies" report from the BT Strategic Planning playbook. It presents a simple yet effective tool for targeting...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Mobile Engagement Demands Process Transformation

Processes: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

To take advantage of an app in an employee's or customer's pocket, you have to help them accomplish a task quickly and easily whenever they want to and wherever they are. That means CIOs and business...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Business Impact Of Mobile Engagement

Business Case: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Smartphones and tablets are game changers for engagement because people carry them everywhere they go. Your customers and partners and employees have perpetual access to the vast resources of the...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Combine Social And Mobile To Build B2B Customer Relationships

How B2B Interactive Marketers Can Drive Engagement, Not Just Leads

B2B interactive marketers today are tasked with more than just building lead pipelines — they must also work alongside sales teams to build deeper customer relationships. Increasingly, B2B...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:SAP In The Cloud: Market Update And Lessons Learned From Early Adopters

The cloud continues to get a lot of attention — and scrutiny — from IT buyers. Most IT buyers have accepted the value of the cloud for process areas such as human capital management and...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Four Steps To Tackle The Shift To The Customer Life Cycle

Forrester believes that chief marketing officers (CMOs) must abandon the century-old marketing/sales funnel and embrace the customer life cycle in order to better manage their customers' interaction...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Maximize Media ROI With A Customer-Centric Approach

Road Map: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

This report outlines the road map portion of Forrester's solution for interactive marketing executives working on digital media buying. Moving to a higher level of digital media buying maturity...

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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 Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Pricing As A Strategic Competency

Why Price Needs To Become More Than Just A Number For Product Strategists

Price can no longer be just a number for product strategists. Pricing now needs to become a strategic competency that affects every aspect of product strategy, from the business model to the nature...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Case Study: Caterpillar Aligns Business And IT To Build Customer Value And Power Growth

Caterpillar has encountered a dramatic shift in the buying process as its customers move to digital channels to learn about and support construction equipment. While reinforcing its traditional...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Forrsights: Business Execs Increase Direct IT Spend To Support Systems Of Engagement

Our Q4 2011 Business Decision-Makers Survey Shows CIOs Under Pressure

During October and November of 2011, Forrester surveyed 3,534 business decision-makers in North American and European enterprises regarding their business priorities (and views of IT priorities),...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Justify The Investment In Open Innovation

Business Case: The Open Innovation Playbook

Product strategists are constantly challenged to innovate products and services to satisfy short-term financial goals as well as create new benefits to meet consumer needs as they evolve over the...

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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 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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