Christopher Gilchrist

Get four key takeaways in this preview of Forrester’s latest tech insights and econometric research (TIER) to help your organization navigate the murky waters of 2024 and achieve growth.

Apple’s fintech plays have big implications for its core market and financial services. But it’s not the only tech company making moves.

Tech leaders that establish talent pipelines in new cities have exclusive access to high-end, cost-effective talent unavailable to their competitors. This is a necessity in a “doubly disrupted” labor market, where a growing mismatch between demanded and supplied skills will drive an even bigger mismatch between current and future skills and wages.

Many firms fail to understand the full impact that emerging technology has on productivity. In our new report, we cover what your tech productivity formula must include, how to maximize productivity with your tech investments, and the role operating capacity plays in productivity.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A), plus corporate venture capital (CVC), are shifting toward acquiring tech capabilities that give access to new markets.

The labor market has been "doubly disrupted": find out how your organization can prepare for this structural change.

To survive and thrive in the future of work, organizations must evolve from “doing” to “learning” in every aspect of their business process.

The story of Kodak’s failure is about much more than one shortsighted technology decision — it is about Kodak’s continued obliviousness to the fact that value delivery could evolve and that its business model had to evolve accordingly.

Tech firms are making labor cuts to focus on profits instead of growth. Find out what this could mean for your industry and how you should respond.

In 2023, technology executives should optimize their budgets with customer and employee experience as the North Star. Here’s a peek at three actions we recommend in our new report, “Navigating The 2023 Downturn: Technology Executive" to help tech executives can position their companies for market leadership when the rebound comes.

To help execs prepare for 2023, we just published a new report, Use Forrester’s Tech Insights And Econometrics Research To Plan For 2023, to give insight into what labor, investments, budgets, and productivity will look like this year.

Don’t become the next Southwest. When cutting back this year, tech execs must consider how cuts could impact future outcomes.

Find out how executives can use corporate venturing to limit the downside and maximum the upside of technology investments in an uncertain economic time.

After delivering my keynote at Technology & Innovation North America, another Forresterite joked to me: “That was great — but next time, more taco.” What did he mean? Well, to introduce my topic, “Growth Requires New Recipes, Not New Ingredients,” I discussed Austin Monthly’s Taco Madness, an annual March Madness-style voting competition that seeks to […]

CIOs must approach their 2023 planning and budgeting period with a growth mindset. Get three takeaways from Forrester's 2023 planning guide for technology executives.

Tech talent has dispersed into regional pockets calling for new recruiting strategies. Learn about one region that might not be on your radar.

Forrester’s research shows that two-thirds of US firms are moving to anywhere-work models, bringing a significant shift to the tech labor market. For most companies, the labor market is tight and continuing to tighten. The highest attrition rates and hardest jobs to fill are concentrated in the IT labor force. But there is another side to […]

Forrester just published its inaugural OCM Landscape, an overview of 14 major OCM service providers and their top use cases for OCM.

As part of Forrester’s tech insights and econometric research (TIER), we monitor market trends and analyze how these trends may affect IT budget strategy. Over the past few weeks, we looked into capex/opex trends leading up to, through, and out of the pandemic. For technology executives, it’s clear what question must remain front of mind: […]