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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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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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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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Report:A Simple Scorecard For Evaluating Technology

This scorecard will help you compare prospective technologies as they apply to your organization. The risk-adjusted scores that this tool outputs should be used to evaluate both the potential and the...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Managed Print Services, Q2 2012

Vendors Move Toward Mature Service Offerings

While many offices look modern, unplanned and unmanaged use of printers, fax machines, copiers, and scanners leads to significant waste. Managed print services (MPS) are designed to help a business...

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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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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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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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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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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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Report:The Context Driving Business Process Management

In today's cutthroat business world, enterprises struggle to respond to the changing needs of their customers while running efficient and effective operations and, at the same time, complying with an...

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Report:Develop A Content Management Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Content Management Playbook

Enterprise architects (EAs) need a solid content management strategy to document their firms' choices in a time of disruptive business and technical change. While it's possible to frame content...

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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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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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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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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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Report:Use Dynamic Case Management To Attack Untamed Processes

Forrester recently conducted a deep dive into dynamic case management (DCM) usage by interviewing 50 companies implementing these solutions. Concurrently, we evaluated 10 DCM platforms for the...

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Report:The Forrester Readiness Assessment For High-Performance EA

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Report:Justify The Value Of Achieving Sustainable Business Agility

Business Impact: The EA Method Playbook

This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives who want to enhance their current EA method to address both agility and costs at the same...

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Report:Crafting Actionable Business Strategy From The Bottom Up

Most companies' executives set very clear goals but produce little in the way of top-down business strategy. With business leaders showing little interest in the strategy process, business architects...

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Report:Forrester's Architecture Review Tool Kit: Project Review Questionnaire — Sample Forms

This workbook contains several sample forms for capturing information about projects as part of an overall architecture review process. They represent several variations and styles and are based on a...

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Report:Case Study: Skandia's EA-Led IT Transformation

Profile Of An InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award Winner

Forrester teamed up with InfoWorld to identify five leading enterprise architecture (EA) organizations using practices that yield measurable business value. Skandia UK and International provides an...

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Report:Transform EA Resources, Relationships, Processes, And Foundations

Assessment Framework: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the assessment framework of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on creating a high-performance EA practice. A high-performance EA practice is...

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Report:Prepare For 2013's Shifting BPM Landscape

Landscape: The Business Process Management Playbook

Firms continue to invest massive amounts of money and time into improving their business processes. Why? Because of the imperative to optimize their business operations for their markets, even as...

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Report:BPM Basics

The term "process" signifies different things to different people. At one end of the spectrum is a set of practices; at the other end, there are procedures. The term "procedure" describes a...

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