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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Map Your Way To Your Information Strategy's Business Outcomes

Road Map: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

One of the most difficult aspects of an information architecture (IA) practice is engaging stakeholders to buy into your strategy and contribute to your architecture development. The architect's best...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Software Is Strategic, SIs Tactical

Saskatchewan's Social Services Ministry's Path To Modernization

Saskatchewan is the latest Canadian province to implement comprehensive modernization and automation of its social services case management technology. It took advantage of other organizations'...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Information Architecture Planning Toolkit

As business executives develop an appreciation for the potential value in their information assets, they're looking to architects to help them dramatically improve their information management and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:TechRadar™: Technologies For Empowered Employees, Q4 '11 Technologies Evaluated

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Let The Adjacent Possible Guide Your Information Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

A new era of information agility is upon us that promises an explosion of opportunities similar to that of the dot-com boom period. But these opportunities are completely dependent upon an...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Blog:What Technology Trends Will Impact Your Organization In The Next 3 Years?

Despite the lack of a sustained full-on recovery in the global economy, one gets the feeling that we're at the beginning of a period of tech expansion and growth, doesn't one? For many,...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Logistics Company Aligns The Application Portfolio With Business Strategy

A logistics company had grown through acquisition, and due to a narrow enterprise architecture (EA) focus, weak governance, and troublesome politics, its former EA practice was largely ineffective....

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:TechRadar™: Survival Phase Technologies

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Forrester's Data Management Reference Architecture

Align Data Management Roles To Create Stronger Business Value

The continuing explosion in data volume, increasing numbers of business users, growing data complexity, compliance requirements, need to support global operations, and growing need for real-time...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Blog:Input To The Questions In Forrester’s 2013 Information Strategy And Architecture Survey

In a month or so I’ll be launching a survey to research issues around information strategy, information architecture and information management in general. I thought it might be useful to do a...

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

Report:Case Study: BI-LO Directly Links EA Goals To Business Strategy

For an EA team that succeeded in significantly reducing costs by virtualizing infrastructure technology, success is a two-edged sword: It boosts the credibility of the EA team but links architects to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Our Survey Respondents Place Their Bets On Mobility, Collaboration, BI, And Virtualization

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Freescale Semiconductor Uses Data Services To Analyze Real-Time Data

Advances in technology that enable real-time data integration and analysis raise the bar for organizations' in-house information management capabilities, but they can provide significant advances in...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: To Launch EA, Woodmen Focused Intensely On Clearly Defined Goals

Smaller IT shops of fewer than 150 staff members have a hard time dedicating separate staff to strategic activity such as EA. But in any environment, goals and processes without owners are likely to...

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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

Client Inquiry:Software Is Strategic, SIs Tactical; Can You Share More Insights On Systems Integrators?

In reference to Forrester's June 22, 2010, "Software Is Strategic, SIs Tactica" report, can you share more insights regarding systems integrators? The tactical part is not necessarily what we want to...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Updated Q2 2011: Simplifying Information Architecture

Creating An IA Program That Works

It has been more than five years since Forrester first published this report outlining a simple approach to information architecture, but this domain of enterprise architecture (EA) has matured...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Exactly Does "Enterprise Value And Risk" Include In Forrester's Top 15 Technology Trends Piece?

In Forrester's October 14, 2010, "The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2011 To 2013" report, we understood how to look at Figure 1 (Tailor Your Organization's New Tech Road Map), but we'd...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Are The Best Practices For An EA Management Office?

Regarding the EA management office, what are best practices, things to avoid, or any tips for the EA structure itself? What direction is EA going in now?

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Blog:Centralized, Federated, Or Virtualized: What Works For Organizing The EA Practice?

If you’re trying to build an effective EA program, you’re in trouble from the get-go. I’d like to paint a rosier picture for anyone involved in this strategic, potentially very...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:TechRadar™: Growth Phase Technologies

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:TechRadar™: Creation Phase Technologies

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Solution Architecture Tool Kit: Overview

This tool kit discusses the role and importance of solution architects, the solution architecture process, templates for solution architecture deliverables, and solution architecture best practices.

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Industry Innovation: Insurance

Technology Trends That Insurance CIOs Must Tap To Drive Growth

Today's insurance CIOs are shifting their focus away from cost reduction to speed, flexibility, and innovation. As insurance buyers' habits change from face-to-face interactions with agents to...

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