Ted Schadler
VP, Principal Analyst

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Nearshore And Onshore Services Take Priority In 2022 — Here’s Why
Technology execs are keeping their partners close in both working hours and proximity. In our recent survey of 1,550 services decision-makers from North American and European enterprises, we asked how they expect their service provider delivery models — where the staffs are located — to change in 2022. They report increases across the board but […]
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What Accenture’s Strong Q2 FY22 Results Mean For Technology Executives
Five ways Accenture's financial performance reflects the technology market overall.
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Choosing The Right Services Provider Can Make Or Break Your Digital Customer Experience Success
A great digital experience starts with the basics: a strategy for omnichannel engagement; great design; personalized, yet trustworthy, experiences; and, of course, the technology and operations to support it. But to differentiate your company’s digital presence, you will also need to be creative in your approaches and solutions. Partners are key to that effort, particularly […]
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Forrester’s 2021 Top Trends And Technologies Point Toward Trust Ecosystems
This year's top trends and technologies report points out that firms that master trust and ecosystem-based business models will dominate the decade. Find out more in this blog post.
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Industry Clouds Accelerate Their Momentum Into 2022
Struggling to use cloud to differentiate your brand? Learn about the rapidly-growing industry cloud market in this blog post.
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The Race For Growth Is On
How will your firm grow and succeed when your competitors have access to the same resources? Find out in this sneak preview of our upcoming Technology & Innovation event.
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Future Fit Companies Build Success Through Partner Ecosystems
Struggling to achieve breakthrough levels of innovation? VP, Principal Analyst Ted Schadler explains how to maximize creativity through co-innovation with partners.
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Creativity Catalyzes A Growth Mindset In Business
Firms that embrace creativity as a way of thinking and working to supercharge their individual and collective problem-solving can develop potent products, services, processes, and experiences. You must develop and codify it in your company's teams, mindset, and practices. Learn how to apply creativity as an operating principle to fuel their business.
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Look For A Full-Service Partner To Support Your Commerce Transformation
The pandemic made it immediately and poignantly clear that every company in every industry needs a robust omnichannel commerce strategy and set of capabilities. But your specific needs depend greatly on your industry, business model, e-commerce history, and priorities. Consumers want full-journey, omnichannel experiences. This requires a common strategy and toolkit; increasingly, a real-time customer […]
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The Future Of Services Is Value Orchestration
After a year of interviews and a review of Forrester’s 20-year history of research into professional and technology services — global delivery, cloud integration, asset-based consulting, and digital transformation — we have reached a conclusion: We live in a post-cloud world. When companies can tap the value and innovation of 100,000 business and technology services […]
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Predictions 2021: “COVID Wrote The Business Case — Our Future Is Digital”
In 2020, digital shifted from nice-to-have to must-have. In 2021, companies will accelerate their digital transformation with a focus on customers and what, where, and how to serve them.
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(Re)Launching Forrester’s Commerce Services Coverage
Forrester is (re)launching its commerce services research. I will be tackling this complex and important analysis to help retailers, brands, and manufacturers choose the best strategy/design/implementation/integration/operations service partners, extending Senior Analyst Lily Varon’s work from a few years ago. Regardless of your category or scenario — B2C, B2B, eCommerce replatforming, pivot to omnichannel, personalization, extension […]
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Adobe’s Service Partners Are What Will Make It A Proper Enterprise Software Company
Adobe strives to be an enterprise software company with the same reach and influence as Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, and SAP. It successfully pivoted its creative tools business into a proper software-as-a-service offering. It built on that creative marketing and agency customer connection by acquiring Day Software, Neolane, Omniture, and more software vendors to enter the […]
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The Pandemic Recession Demands A Digital Response
Businesses have never valued digital agility as much as they have during the COVID-19 pandemic. But how do you apply the lessons you’ve learned this year to your long-term plan? VP Ted Schadler provides insights.
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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs
A Flash-Point Week For Facial Recognition Last week, IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft came out and made some big announcements on how they intend to halt or ban the use of facial recognition technology for law enforcement. At a time when privacy and civil rights dominate the zeitgeist, these values-based decisions will force much-needed dialogue on the ethics of facial recognition […]
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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs
Brands Pledge To Stand With The Black Community In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, citizens are taking to the streets to protest institutionalized racism. Brands are speaking out, too, because, as Netflix tweeted, “To be silent is to be complicit.” Netflix joins brands such as Google, Nike, Peloton, and Target (whose stores were looted) in taking a vocal anti-racist stance. Firms hear consumers’ desire to align with brands that share their values and are emboldened to make […]
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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs
COVID-19 Is Proving That Consumer Voices Can Influence Business Decisions Last week, major corporations learned firsthand the power of values-based consumers. Many received harsh backlash after applying for and receiving funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), intended to help small businesses keep their workforces employed amid the COVID-19 crisis. The US government allocated $349 billion to the program, but many small businesses were denied after larger players received […]
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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs
The March Numbers Are In: Retail Sales Are Down But Not Out The United States Census Bureau released preliminary figures for March sales in the US on April 15, which provided an official glimpse of the impact of COVID-19 on the US economy and retail spend. We expect the upcoming slate of earnings releases to reinforce the following narrative: Consumer spend is up at grocery stores (including alcohol […]
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To Accelerate Transformation, Think Beyond The RFP When Seeking Services Partners
Thanks to Emma Huff, a senior RA on our team, for this post. When it comes to digital transformation, your service providers are not “extra hands on deck.” They can and should be partners in strategic thinking and bring to the table industry best practices, creative design, operational execution, and organizational change management. The Forrester Analytics Global Business Technographics® Business And Technology Services Survey, […]
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