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Budget Boom Or Budget Bust? Be Ready For Both In 2026

Sharyn Leaver July 15, 2025
Though volatility has tempered budget expectations, business and tech leaders should prepare for the unexpected. Forrester’s 2026 Budget Planning Guides can help you make the right strategic moves this budget planning season.
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Is AI Coming For Your Team Next? How AI Hype Is Becoming The Hot Layoff Excuse

Rani Salehi 5 days ago
AI is giving executives the perfect justification for workforce reductions that they’ve been planning all along. Yet many business leaders don't believe that AI is a replacement for employees, our survey data shows. For organizations and workers to survive this shift, the strategy isn’t about fighting AI — it’s about documenting real value, tracking revenue contributions, and building data-driven cases that prove that human judgment, creativity, and relationship management remain irreplaceable.
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Where Technology Executives Will Be Investing In 2026

Greg Zorella July 15, 2025
For technology executives trying to build an investment plan for 2026, the picture is unclear. Find out where most IT organizations will be investing next year and where you may be able to scale back to fund more experimentation in the year ahead.

Master Your 2026 Budget With Our Ultimate Guides And Tools

Plan smarter to thrive in 2026! Access planning guides, workbooks, webinars, and resources to invest wisely, cut costs, and maximize your budget impact — even in uncertain times.

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B2B Marketing Budgets 2026: Markets Are Volatile, But Planning Needn’t Be

Craig Moore July 15, 2025
Optimism about budget growth is high among B2B marketing leaders — but so is the pressure to deliver results. Focusing on resilience, changing buyers, and strategic use of AI will help these senior leaders thrive in an unpredictable climate.
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How 116 Retailers Competed With Amazon’s July 2025 Prime Day Event

Sucharita Kodali July 14, 2025
As in years past, we reviewed the websites of 116 brands and retailers to see how they did — and didn’t — choose to compete with the four-day sale. Here’s what we found.
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Midyear CIO Check-In: Are You Crushing It Or Barely Treading Water?

Mark Moccia July 10, 2025
Life as a CIO is hectic, the environment around you is increasingly volatile, and you continually have to achieve more with less. Get some tips on managing tech debt and building engagement for your technology strategy.

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413: Inside The Experience Room – Designing Immersive CX Learning

The CX Cast 1 hour ago
Joana de Quintanilha and first-time CX Cast guest Richard Sheahan unpack the creation and impact of the Experience Room — an immersive, hands-on learning experience debuted at Forrester's CX Summit EMEA 2025. Created to be fast-paced, emotionally engaging, and highly collaborative, the Experience Room offered participants — working together as a bank team to improve the home-buying experience — a unique, interactive way to engage customers with four key CX tools.
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Retool Your B2B Marketing Budgeting For 2026 Success

Discover strategies and tools to optimize 2026 B2B marketing budget planning with Forrester. Build adaptable, goal-driven plans that align with business objectives.

Stop The Friction: Align CIOs & CISOs For Smarter 2026 Budget Planning

In uncertain times, teamwork is everything. Join Forrester analysts live on August 6 to align CIOs and CISOs on budget plans, prioritize smart investments, and fortify your security for 2026.

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Beyond The Metrics: How B2B Marketing Pros Should Use Storytelling Techniques To Communicate Value

Mavis Liew 12 hours ago
As a marketing professional, you live and breathe metrics: website traffic, leads generated (although you should be talking about buying groups engaged), pipeline contribution, engagement rates, and more. But when it comes to communicating marketing’s business value, the numbers alone just don’t cut it. They either aren’t understood by marketing’s stakeholders, or they’re too disconnected […]
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Upskilling The Public Sector Workforce For The AI Era

Boris Evelson 20 hours ago
Unlocking AI value in the public sector starts with people, not technology. While investments in AI solutions accelerate, many organizations overlook the critical human capabilities that enable them. Without a workforce that understands, trusts, and can act on data, even the most advanced AI initiatives will underdeliver. The foundation lies in developing a deliberate triad […]
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Adtech’s Inflection Point Signals More Compelling Customer Experiences

Nikhil Lai 4 days ago
Advertising technology is overly complicated — and everyone is fed up. Here's how adtech can right-size and refocus on compelling customer experiences.
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Jekyll And Hyde: The Dual Role Of Disruptive Technologies In Sustainability

Abhijit Sunil 4 days ago
Disruptive technologies such AI can boost efforts towards some strategic priorities, but can also work against environmental sustainability goals.
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Revolutionizing IT Management With Generative AI: The Future Is Here

Charles Betz 4 days ago
For CEOs and CIOs, genAI promises more than incremental productivity gains; it provides a new layer of instrumentation that enhances visibility, velocity, and adaptability across the digital enterprise.

New For 2026! Tech Budget Planning Guide + Workbook

Simplify your 2026 tech budget planning! Download our guide and workbook for recommendations, benchmarks, and actionable templates to help you assess, prioritize, and implement investments.

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Capgemini’s $3.3B Bet On WNS: The End Of Traditional BPO As We Know It

Vasupradha Srinivasan 4 days ago
Capgemini’s recent announcement of its intent to acquire WNS for $3.3 billion represents more than just consolidation in the business process outsourcing (BPO) space. This deal reflects a decisive shift in the industry: The traditional, labor-intensive outsourcing model is giving way to intelligent, AI-powered service delivery. In today’s BPO market, AI is no longer a […]
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Why B2B Customer Service Is Now Part Of My Research Agenda

Laura Ramos 5 days ago
When B2B survey respondents say that 73% of their revenue originates from current customers, retaining and growing those accounts must be a top priority, one that is well coordinated across all postsale motions, from onboarding to servicing and expanding business on the back of attained goals. Especially in volatile economic markets and geopolitical times, every […]
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Leverage Cocreation To Accelerate Sustainability Innovation

Thomas Husson 5 days ago
Cocreation is a powerful tool to help CMOs orchestrate multiple internal teams and external partners to drive innovation. Because environmental sustainability demands a systemic approach with multiple stakeholders, CMOs can apply some of the lessons learned to help drive an ambitious cocreation agenda for environmental sustainability. The CMO’s position — at the intersection of business […]
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What’s Hot For Identity And Access Management In Asia Pacific In 2025?

Meng Liu 5 days ago
Learn some of the key adoption drivers, technologies, and use cases for identity and access management (IAM) in Asia Pacific in this preview of a new report.
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Build Your Proactive Security Program By Matching Attacker Velocity

Tope Olufon 5 days ago
Effective security must mirror attacker agility. Learn how to think like an attacker and build a proactive security strategy in this preview of our upcoming Technology & Innovation Summit EMEA.

Crush Your 2026 B2B Marketing Goals With Strategic Budget Planning

Join our July 29 webinar on budgeting for 2026 B2B marketing success! Learn to prioritize markets, adapt to buyers, leverage AI, and drive growth. Includes live Q&A and exclusive resources.

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Build Trust In Your Agency’s AI

Kim Herrington 6 days ago
As AI use grows in government, people are asking important questions about fairness, control, and responsibility. This blog looks at how public agencies can build trust by focusing on clear communication, ethical design, and employee involvement. It shows that trust isn’t just a nice-to-have — it’s key to making AI work for everyone.
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Public Sector: Will Agentic AI Solve Your Integration Problems?

David Mooter 6 days ago
Will agentic AI deliver the seamless integration government agencies have been waiting for, making interoperability a problem of the past? Find out in this post.
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Why Every Engineering Leader Needs A Knowledge Management Playbook

Julie Mohr 7 days ago
Effective knowledge management (KM) is essential for enhancing developer productivity and innovation. A strategic KM approach reduces inefficiencies, accelerates onboarding, and preserves valuable organizational knowledge. By fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and utilizing centralized repositories, organizations can transform KM from a support function into a core enabler of software delivery performance.
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CX Leaders: Optimize Spending And Boost Impact In Volatile Times

Senem Guler Biyikli July 15, 2025
Budget planning this season may feel like a high-stakes expedition into uncharted territory. Learn how our 2026 Budget Planning Guide can help customer experience leaders deftly navigate this uncertain terrain.
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Security Planning 2026: Budget To Manage Volatility, Seize Opportunities, And Avoid Threats

Jess Burn July 15, 2025
Security and risk leaders face an uncertain road ahead in 2026. Wild market swings, geopolitical tensions, and increased cybersecurity threats mean that security and risk leaders must build resilient plans and make bold moves to turn volatility into opportunity. Learn how our Budget Planning Guide for security and risk leaders can help.

New For 2026! B2B Marketing Budget Planning Guide + Workbook

Get our new budget planning guide for benchmarks and tools to help you adjust your 2026 marketing budget to boost buyer networks, drive engagement, and make your brand stand out to buyers and AI.

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412: Live At CX Summit NA, 2025

The CX Cast July 15, 2025
We come to you live this week from Forrester’s annual CX Summit NA conference in Nashville! This year, Forrester unveiled its new Total Experience Score framework, a new measurement that connects brand and CX to deliver a more comprehensive picture of where brands stand. We spoke to some Forrester analysts at the event to discuss the research they shared and insights they gathered.
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2026 Budget Planning: Prioritize AI, Adapt To Buyers, And Thrive In Chaos

Learn how to optimize budgets, prioritize resilient markets, adapt to evolving buyer behaviors, and leverage AI for growth. Don’t miss our data-backed budget strategies to thrive in uncertainty.
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2026 Budget Planning: Why CIOs And CISOs Must Be On The Same Page

Learn how CIOs and CISOs can align budgets and strategies to tackle cybersecurity threats, prioritize risks, and implement solutions for 2026 volatility.
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