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The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how organizations operate, offering unprecedented opportunities to boost efficiency and drive innovation. Yet, alongside this immense potential comes a layer of complexity that requires deliberate strategy. AI is doing more than just enhancing systems; it’s reshaping how organizations allocate resources, advance capabilities, and achieve growth. Its influence touches every corner of an operating model, challenging leaders to not only capture the power of AI but to create meaningful value with it. The path forward is both exciting and intricate, filled with the promise of transformation and the need for thoughtful navigation. Get the latest AI insights and strategic perspectives from Forrester analysts and experts.
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Anthropic Catches Attackers Using Agents In The Act
The internet is rife with prognostications and security vendor hype about AI-powered attacks. On November 13, AI vendor Anthropic published details about the disruption of what it characterized as an AI-led cyber espionage operation. This revelation comes on the heels of a Google Threat Intelligence Group report that also highlighted the use of AI in […]
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Slot New Robot Workers Into Your Business Workflows
Paul Miller explores IFS’s and SAP’s visions for a future when robots will be integrated into the tools already used to manage human workers.
Scale Your AI Strategy To Maximize ROI
Unlock the blueprint for AI success. Discover how to align strategy, prioritize impactful use cases, and close the talent gap — everything you need to expedite ROI and achieve tangible success through AI.
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ITC Vegas 2025: AI Wonderland
The 10th ITC conference centered heavily on the shift from AI hype to practical, scalable implementation across the insurance value chain.
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How To Master Answer Engine Optimization
Consumers’ rapid shift to natural language and adoption of multimodal search, the voracity of answer engines’ bots, and answer engines’ ability to fill the top of the funnel require marketers to significantly adapt content, technical, and measurement practices. But how? Get answers to the three most frequently asked questions we get from clients around answer engine optimization.
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2025: The Year Context Became King (And How Developers Are Wielding It)
The AI-driven software development lifecycle is no longer just about the raw power of the model — it’s about context engineering. Find out how context engineering can reduce AI agent drift and more in this post.
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How Do You Redefine Research Delivery For The AI Era? Start With Trust.
As AI reshapes how research is delivered and consumed, trust isn’t just important — it’s everything. In a world where speed and scale matter, the winners will be those who build AI on a foundation of integrity.
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Predictions 2026: Breaking Down Three Of Our Boldest Predictions
It’s Predictions season here at Forrester. We recently published our 2026 predictions across a variety of business functions, industries, and geographies. In this episode, we take a detailed look at three of our boldest calls for the coming year.
Predictions 2026: Your Planning Starts Here
2026 will demand proof, not promises. Explore Forrester’s Predictions resources — guides, webinars, and blogs — to plan smarter, lead with trust, and stay ahead of disruption.
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What Technical Debt Means To IT Professionals
AI may be grabbing front-page headlines — but tech debt is lurking below the surface. Learn about the path forward to manage it.
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The Real AI Bottleneck Is Organizational Reinvention, Not Computing Power
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, xAI, and others are making trillion-dollar bets on AI infrastructure. They promise artificial general intelligence (AGI) delivered from the cloud, which they describe as “a country of geniuses in a datacenter.” But your ROI from AI depends almost entirely on something you’re not investing in — your organization’s capacity to reinvent itself. Find out why.
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What Trader Joe’s Can Teach Us About AI Use Cases
Early in the history of Trader Joe's, founder Joe Coulombe devised four simple checks that every product in inventory had to pass to truly tell a story about the brand while also aligning with the operational needs of the business. Can enterprises adopt a similar discipline for AI — a simple heuristic test for executives to cut through the noise and focus on the areas of opportunity that matter most?
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Predictions 2026: Prepare For AI, Security, And Integrated Network Infrastructure And Operations
Forrester’s 2026 predictions for technology infrastructure and operations highlight major shifts driven by AI adoption, secure LAN expansion, and agentic AI workflows. Key trends include private AI factory growth, edge computing with microservers, SASE and LAN convergence, and autonomous AI preventing outages — crucial insights for tech leaders navigating digital transformation.
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Predictions 2026: AI Gets Real For Customer Service — But It’s Not Glamorous Work
AI won’t transform customer service in 2026 — but foundational work will. Discover how the customer service space will evolve in the coming year.
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Pilots, Promises, And Public Purpose: How To Say “Yes” (Or “No”) To Government AI Offers
Given that ROI for AI remains elusive, it makes sense, and is arguably an imperative, that AI decision-makers in government want to ask hard questions before accepting the next “You can’t miss this” deal …
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Should B2B Brands Embrace Reddit?
Reddit’s recent partnership with G2 signals a new era for B2B brands and their buyers — one where community credibility becomes just as important as traditional content and SEO. Community spaces present both opportunity and risk, so B2B brands need to approach them strategically.
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APAC Leads Global AI Adoption, But Regional Strategies Diverge
Four of the five leading countries in Anthropic's 2025 AI Usage Index are in the APAC region. We explain why these countries lead most of North America and Europe in enterprise AI adoption.
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Predictions 2026: Software Development Goes From Jamming To A Full Orchestra
If software development was music, generative AI would be rewriting the score. Learn how the tune will shift in the coming year.
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427: Volatility, Responsible AI, And Trust
Martin and Angelina welcome back VP Principal Analyst Enza Iannopollo to discuss the evolving nature of trust in CX — especially in the context of global volatility and the rise of AI. The conversation covers Forrester’s latest research on trust, actionable strategies for organizations, and real-world examples of responsible AI.
2026 Predictions: Blind Spots That Could Derail APAC Leaders
What if your biggest risk in 2026 is the one you haven’t seen yet? Join Forrester live on Nov. 27 to uncover the 2026 predictions APAC tech and security leaders must act on to ensure trust, value, and resilience.
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Predictions 2026: Automation At The Crossroads
The race to cognitive automation is well underway. Learn what this shift means for automation strategy, platforms, and governance.
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Cognite Lets Customers Demonstrate The Power Of Industrial AI
Like many of its peers and competitors, industrial software provider Cognite talks a lot about AI. But unlike some competitors, Cognite has real customer deployments — at scale — to talk about and used its recent Impact event in Houston to showcase them.
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Salesforce Dreams Of The Agentic Enterprise
The dust has settled on Dreamforce, Salesforce’s well-attended San Francisco fete. Our takeaway? Salesforce is setting the pace with a platform for AI agents embedded in business applications, and it’s made huge progress on its products and partnerships in the last year.
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