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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Mentors And Consultants Fill The Gap In Business Process Skills Development

This set of data charts presents findings from Forrester's May 2010 Global BPM And Process Improvement Online Survey.

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Report:Gauge Your Organization's Content Management Maturity

Assessment: The Content Management Playbook

Organizations roll out content management (CM) applications to tackle a myriad of objectives. Chief among these are content sharing, improved search, compliance, and process automation. Yet many...

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Report:The State Of Business Process Change Maturity Self Assessment

This survey assesses the maturity of business process change initiatives using a scale of 1 to 5, with five being optimized. Forrester has developed and tested the survey framework including...

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Report:Navigate Digital Disruption With An Emerging Technology Vision

Vision: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Emerging information technology has been a key enabler of business evolution since the 1960s and shows no signs of letting up. As we move beyond simple digitization of information to digital business...

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Report:Assess Your Readiness For A Cohesive Information Strategy And Architecture Program

Assessment: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Information workers thrive or falter depending on their ability to get the information they need quickly and easily, with high confidence that it's the right information. Enterprises need to protect...

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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 Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Integrate EA With ITIL Service Portfolio Management

It has been almost three years since ITIL v3 was released, superseding v2. While v3 has overtaken v2 in terms of overall adoption, most IT shops are still struggling to adopt v3's new service...

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Report:Using Business Capability Maps To Guide Application Portfolio Rationalization

Business' Process Goals Strongly Influence Application Strategy

Most firms have application portfolios with significant redundancy — a legacy of how business needs have been funded or past merger and acquisition activity. Firms initiate application...

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Report:Governance: The Secret To ECM Success

Enterprise content management (ECM) governance programs help ensure that ECM implementations not only meet technical requirements, but provide the organization with the content that is reliable,...

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Report:Build A Business Architecture Program Road Map

Road Map: The Business Architecture Playbook

Too often, business architecture (BA) programs struggle to create a clear identity for the value they can deliver and get pulled in multiple directions. Successful BA programs — th ose with...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Assess Your Readiness For Emerging Technology Opportunities

Assessment: The Emerging Technology Playbook

The pace of business is accelerating; digitized information makes constant change and disruption an ongoing reality. Firms count on emerging technologies to give them a leg up in increasingly...

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Report:Measure EA's Business Goals, Engagement, And Influence

Metrics: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the metrics for enterprise architecture (EA) impact of Forrester's solution for EA executives building a high-performance EA program. Developing and executing a metrics and...

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Report:Aetna's EA Organization Uses Capability Maps To Connect Business Strategies

A Profile Of One Of The Winners Of The InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award

EA organizations often toil out of the limelight, working with their firms to improve business-IT alignment, rationalize the application portfolio, and guide technology use. Forrester teamed up with...

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Report:Trends 2011: The State Of Business Process Change Maturity

Our Survey Shows That Firms Are Not Ready For Sustainable BPM

From our recent survey of 153 business process professionals who drive business process change initiatives across a wide spectrum of industries, we found that 59% of the survey respondents operate...

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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:Capitalize On Emerging Technology For Innovation And Growth

Executive Overview: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Emerging technology unlocks disruptive business opportunities for firms that are prepared; capitalizing on this should be a key element in your firm's innovation and growth plans. Technologies that...

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Report:Connect The Dots Between Business Outcomes And Emerging Technology

Forrester hosted a "tweet jam" on technology trends on July 29. Cloud was clearly atop all other subjects, but business intelligence (BI), mobile, and social were also discussed — the general...

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Report:Assemble A Strong Cross-Functional Team To Achieve ECM Program Excellence

Organization: The Content Management Playbook

Successful enterprise content management (ECM) implementations require an ongoing partnership between IT, compliance, and line-of-business managers. Strict top-down initiatives or monolithic...

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Report:Use A Metrics Framework To Drive BPM Excellence

Performance Management: The Business Process Management Playbook

Advancing technology for business process management (BPM) and analytics is allowing broader and deeper treatment of performance metrics. As a result, defining and using performance metrics is an...

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Report:Big Opportunities In Big Data

Positioning Your Firm To Capitalize In A Sea Of Information

Opportunities to improve the bottom line exist in a flood of information; however, gaining insight from data becomes challenging as it grows extremely large. Emerging technology applies the power of...

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Report:Evaluating Application Fit With Cloud

Questions You Should Be Asking To Determine Where To Run Your Apps

Faced with a multitude of public and private infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings, firms must determine their approach for leveraging these options. Enterprise architects should begin mapping...

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Report:How To Start A BPM Program And Engage The Business

As with any major organizational change program, gaining BPM traction in the business relies on engagement. This includes ensuring executive support for the BPM initiative. Selecting the right...

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Report:Treat Information As A Strategic Asset

Business Case: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Business cases to fund information management capabilities traditionally characterize information problems in ways that elicit little more than yawns from business executives. Data redundancy and...

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Report:Coming Soon: The Need To Search Video In The Enterprise

Video is not a fringe format anymore. Increasingly, information workers consume video in the workplace for training purposes, technical help, and real-time communication with colleagues and...

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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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