Bernhard Schaffrik,

Bernhard Schaffrik

Principal Analyst

Bernhard’s research supports CIOs and technology leaders with their broader transformation challenges. His thought leadership provides guidance on how to manage technology-driven business models and how to drive sustainable technology innovation. Bernhard is a hands-on expert in both emerging and mature technologies such as AI, automation, IoT, process intelligence, and process orchestration. Leveraging his business process and enterprise architecture expertise, Bernhard’s research takes a holistic look at business and operations automation and serves clients in these areas of responsibility.

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Planned Research

What research can you expect from Forrester in the next 12 months? Updated biweekly, our publishing plan will keep you current with market and technology trends. Use the link below to download a list of our upcoming research.

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August 27th, 2026 3:00 PM - 3:40 PM Webinar

Innovate With AI Across Your Organization By Following Five Best Practices

Tech leaders are under significant pressure to drive AI adoption and show the value of genAI and AI agents. As a result, they often forget that the technology is just one element in ensuring innovation success. Based on the practices of leading firms, we'll discuss five best practices that tech leaders must master to drive AI adoption — and move beyond the pilots!Key takeaways: Discover the five best practices for scaling AI throughout your organization.Learn why applying these practices is as important as having the latest AI technology.Target audience level: beginner and Intermediate
October 7th, 2026 3:00 PM - 3:40 PM Webinar

How Process Intelligence Software Is Emerging As The Missing Layer For Grounding And Governing AI Agents

B2B marketing leaders are working through a 2027 planning cycle where persistent volatility, AI-driven disruption, and changing buyer behavior are breaking the direct link between budgets and better outcomes. Redistributing investments across existing allocations or scaling activity uniformly will reinforce legacy approaches and drive fragmentation, not impact. Growth and resilience now depend on using budget as a prioritization tool, making explicit decisions about where to concentrate investment and what to stop funding. New capacity will come from aligning resources with market realities and strategic priorities, concentrating investment, strengthening execution, and driving measurable impact.Technology and business decision-makers are tearing their hair out over how to best adopt AI agents organizationwide without compromising decision quality and customer experience. Process intelligence software offers them an out-of-the-box solution. Until now, process intelligence software has been mainly used for hindsight analytics of past processes. With agentic AI, it is becoming the infrastructure for the agentic layer, enabling better agentic outcomes with higher conformance rates.Key takeaways: Understand how process intelligence helps train, design, ground, and observe agents.Learn how to get started.Target audience level: all levels