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Pause Innovation Now And Pay The Price Later: Why AI Readiness Can’t Wait

Stephanie Balaouras June 26, 2025
Even as volatility abounds, business and technology leaders must stay laser-focused on building a strong AI foundation. The first blog in our new quarterly Bold Stances series offers some guidance.
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Are We Ready To Talk AGI Yet? Yes. Maybe. No. All Of The Above.

Brian Hopkins 1 day ago
Artificial general intelligence is inevitable, progressing in stages toward autonomous, goal-driven software across domains. Learn how to focus on practical, observable criteria to plan for its impact.
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2026 Budget Planning: Keys To Success For B2B Marketing, Sales, And Revenue Operations Leaders

Ross Graber 1 day ago
The coming year will test the resilience of B2B operations leaders. Here's how you can help your marketing organization get 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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Anthropic Lawsuit, AI And Energy, CMO Trends

What It Means 2 days ago
As we hurtle toward the end of August, it’s time to look toward the future. More specifically, the future of Anthropic (and other AI firms), the future of AI as a technology, and the future of the CMO role.
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Commercial Software Spend Will Reach $1.7 Trillion By 2029 And See Double-Digit Growth

Michael O'Grady 4 days ago
As the global economy braces for slower trade growth and geopolitical tensions, the software industry continues to defy economic headwinds with robust expansion. Software infrastructure is set to grow 13.4% through 2029 while application software grows at a more subdued 9.5%. Learn more in our newly released commercial software forecast.
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Mastering The Tightrope: How Strategic Portfolio Management Transforms Tech Leadership

Margo Visitacion August 15, 2025
CIOs routinely face a frustrating dilemma that drives them to ask the question: Am I truly spending the company’s money as effectively as possible? The answer lies in strategic portfolio management. Learn how this discipline is transforming how tech organizations approach their most critical decisions.

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“Velocity IS The ****ing Strategy”: What Citizen Development Means For AI-Enhanced Businesses

John Bratincevic 37 minutes ago
AI continue to be hard. Our research (and others) shows that even deploying a single, substantive genAI solution or agent is exceptional. There are two anti-patterns that complicate adoption: first, when engineers go off and build solutions without significant business collaboration; second, when parties do collaborate and teams contribute their own special dysfunctions to the […]
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How Stripe And Bridge Are Pushing Stablecoin Real-World Adoption: A Conversation With Mai Leduc

Meng Liu 7 hours ago
Learn how Stripe and Bridge are driving stablecoin adoption in this conversation with Mai Leduc, head of product at Bridge, a Stripe company.
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The Partner Sales Divide: Why 51% Of Vendors Succeed And Others Don’t

Stephanie Sissler 2 days ago
Basic Sales Training Is Failing Your Partner Account Managers When partner sales numbers fall short of expectations, the blame game begins: Fingers point at partners, products, or market conditions. Yet a common, overlooked cause is your own partner account managers (PAMs). If your PAMs are operating with only basic sales training, you’re leaving revenue on […]
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Navigate With Confidence The Migration Options For SAP ECC Customers

Akshara Naik Lopez 2 days ago
The clock is ticking on SAP ECC’s end-of-support date in 2027, and the big question requiring your attention is: What’s your plan to get to SAP S/4HANA cloud? Learn the options in this preview of an upcoming peer discussion for Forrester clients.
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Ongoing Government Uncertainty Around Cybersecurity Initiatives Is Putting Your Business At Risk

Paddy Harrington 2 days ago
Government instability is undermining key cybersecurity programs like CyberSentry and MITRE’s CVE cataloging, putting critical infrastructure and business operations at risk. This post explores how funding cuts and conflicting AI directives are creating dangerous gaps in threat detection and response.
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Fueling Revenue Process Transformation Through B2B Events

Conrad Mills 2 days ago
Events are not an add-on. For B2B organizations, they can play a critical role in revenue process transformation. Learn how.
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Learnings From Knowledge Summit Dublin 2025

Julie Mohr 3 days ago
After being in the shadows for years, knowledge management has suddenly taken on a much more prominent role as a key strategic function.

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417: Practitioner Stories: Scaling Journey Management At Grundfos

The CX Cast 3 days ago
Cecilie Kobbelgaard was tasked with driving journey orchestration at Grundfos. But the Global Customer Journey Manager recognized that the organization needed the basics first. So, she led the development of a customer journey mapping “cookbook”, turned the cookbook into skills, built a journey atlas, and standardized the approach so different business units were working the […]
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The State Of Design: Progress And Persistent Challenges

Gina Bhawalkar August 15, 2025
When investigating the evolving scope and practices of design, there are encouraging signs of progress. At the same time, persistent challenges still hinder design teams’ effectiveness.
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Beyond The Hype: Why Big Tech Economic Impact Studies Fall Short

Sam Higgins August 15, 2025
Big tech economic impact headlines are engineered for attention. Apple recently announced a staggering US$600 billion investment in US manufacturing over four years — complete with fanfare around domestic chip and glass production.
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Clari-Salesloft Merger: A Bold, High-Stakes Bid For Market Dominance

Anthony McPartlin August 14, 2025
The announced merger of Clari and Salesloft is undeniably a high-risk, high-reward gambit requiring exceptional leadership to navigate product and commercial challenges. Learn some of impact this deal could have on the revenue orchestration platform market.
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AI As Tool Creator: The Next Frontier In Knowledge Work

Charles Betz August 13, 2025
As I move into my second six months of using AI daily, I’m convinced that its most overlooked role isn’t writing content (or even code) but creating tools. We all know how generative AI has shaken up software development, writing code at scale and collapsing cycle times. But AI isn’t just a writer — it’s a toolsmith.

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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AWS Makes Agentic Push At AWS Summit New York City 2025

Bill Martorelli August 13, 2025
AWS Summit New York City is a smaller cousin to the re:Invent mega-conference set for the late fall in Las Vegas, so most big announcements tend to wait until that event, but agentic AI won’t wait, despite its relatively modest take-up to date.
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Black Hat 2025: Troop Forrester Goes To Hacker Summer Camp

James Plouffe August 13, 2025
2025 marks the 28th year of Black Hat, and although it remains on the edgier side of corporate-focused cybersecurity conferences, it sometimes feels like the event is considering completely ditching its hoodie in favor of a collared shirt.
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Optimize Your Provider Ecosystem For Maximum Business Value

Bill Martorelli August 13, 2025
The struggle to balance single- and multisourcing decisions is pervasive. Because service engagement decisions are fragmented across the organization and made at the portfolio level — not the enterprise level — companies are constantly at odds.
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416: Can Employees Keep Up With Customers’ Tech Expectations? 

The CX Cast August 13, 2025
As customers’ expectations shift due to their adoption of new technologies, organizations need to adapt. TCQ, Forrester’s Technology Change Quotient, measures the readiness of employees, teams, and organizations to adapt to technology in a way that drives productivity, creativity, and inventiveness. J. P. Gownder, VP, Principal Analyst joins us to explain how. Featuring: J. P. […]
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Navigating The Geopolitical Cloud: ASEAN’s Diverse Approach To Digital Sovereignty

Sam Higgins August 12, 2025
What we’re now observing in Southeast Asia is a more nuanced and strategically driven “diverse cloud” approach that directly addresses concerns around US foreign policy uncertainty and the imperative for localized data control.

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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The Real Future Of Proactive Security Isn’t Finding Exposures — It’s Fixing Them

Erik Nost August 12, 2025
Visibility, prioritization, and remediation will always be the foundation of your proactive program, but many orgs still struggle to optimize all three principles in an integrated fashion. Learn how to prepare your security teams for the future of proactive security in this preview of a keynote at our upcoming Security & Risk Summit.
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Turn Marketing Planning From A Source Of Anxiety To A Source Of Clarity

Craig Moore August 12, 2025
There’s no textbook or course on how to build a marketing budget that aligns with business goals, supports cross-functional collaboration, and adapts to change. But instead of adapting last year’s plan and hoping for the best, marketing leaders can take these three proven steps.
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Announcing Forrester’s Consumer Intelligence Platforms Landscape Report

Audrey Chee-Read August 12, 2025
It’s hard for marketers to keep track of the tools and platforms designed to help brands understand their consumers. As the demand for a more holistic view of the consumer and speed to insight grows, so does the scope of the platforms that support these needs.
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