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SLED Leaders: Use IT Spend Management To Manage Budget Pressures

Greg Zorella 6 days ago
What does Forrester’s IT spend management framework mean for state, local, and educational (SLED) tech leaders? I connected with Yessica Jones, a former State of Arkansas CIO who recently joined the Forrester team, on this topic, and it produced some interesting observations: SLED tech leaders are not expecting funding cuts. In fact, in a recent […]
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Google Cloud Next 2026: The End Of The AI Pilot Era

Devin Dickerson 6 days ago
Google Cloud Next 2026 opened with Thomas Kurian declaring the end of the AI pilot era and Sundar Pichai comparing the enterprise refrain of last year (“Can we build an agent?”) to today’s: “How do we manage thousands of them?” Google Cloud Next ’26 answers the second question with a single product story: Gemini Enterprise […]
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In An AI World, High-Performance IT Is Mandatory For Business Success

Carlos Casanova 7 days ago
Technology leaders are operating in an environment defined by constant and accelerating disruption. AI adoption, geopolitical volatility, mounting technical debt, and unrelenting cost pressure demand that IT steps up for its business partners. Simultaneously, the tolerance of IT and CIO failures is waning as quickly, forcing a vision and strategy that goes beyond incremental improvement […]
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Cognitive Sovereignty: Protect Human Judgment In An AI‑Saturated World

Kim Herrington April 27, 2026
Cognitive sovereignty describes the human ability to think independently amid AI‑generated outputs. This post explores why data literacy and humans in the loop are critical to sustaining sound judgment.
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Introducing Forrester’s AI Model Openness Framework

Mike Gualtieri April 17, 2026
Forrester’s Model Openness Framework can help you assess the real degree of openness in any AI model, whether it’s labeled open source or commercial, across three key dimensions: reproducibility, usage rights, and community momentum.
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Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2026: Beyond Chat

Brian Hopkins April 15, 2026
In 2026, AI leaves the chat and enters the physical world. From layer zero experiences and robotics to multi‑agent systems and quantum computing, this year’s top emerging technologies reveal how AI is reshaping interaction, infrastructure, and the foundations of the future.
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Measure The Business Value Of Data And Analytics Investments

Boris Evelson April 14, 2026
To advance data‑driven transformation, enterprises need structured approaches that clearly link analytics initiatives to business outcomes and communicate impact consistently. Yet most enterprises still lack mature, repeatable practices for measuring and communicating the value of enterprise investments in data and analytics. That leaves the business impact of these investments unclear. And because direct causation is […]
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IBM And The Converging Forces Reshaping Enterprise AI

Frederic Giron April 10, 2026
We attended IBM APAC Analyst Insights 2026 event in Bengaluru this week. The event surfaced a thesis worth examining: Digital sovereignty, the rise of agentic AI, and cybersecurity are converging in ways that favor vendors with broad, integrated stacks. IBM is making an aggressive play across all three. Here’s what tech leaders should take away […]
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The AI CIO Will Govern Outcomes At Scale

Mark Moccia April 9, 2026
AI will redefine the CIO role from overseeing delivery to governing outcomes at scale. As autonomous systems turn intent into action, CIOs gain influence by setting decision rules, enforcing guardrails, and ensuring accountability across human and AI labor.
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Project Glasswing Shows That AI Will Break The Vulnerability Management Playbook

Erik Nost April 8, 2026
Anthropic, along with 11 other companies, recently announced Project Glasswing — an initiative that aims to secure software in the wake of advances in AI capabilities, most notably Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview frontier model. Project Glasswing is made up of a who’s who of tech companies, cybersecurity vendors, and others: Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, […]
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Beware The Magical Two-Person, $1 Billion AI-Driven Startup

J.P. Gownder April 6, 2026
Recent news stories are a reminder to evaluate AI "miracles" with a dose of healthy skepticism.
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The CDO Role Has Changed — And So Has What “Good” Looks Like

Kim Herrington April 2, 2026
The chief data officer role has matured. Today’s CDO must drive decisions, trust, and organizational change — not just deliver insights.

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The Bell Tolls For Time-And-Materials Pricing

Ted Schadler March 25, 2026
The industrialization of services with AI machinery has destroyed the age-old and terribly convenient time-and-materials (T&M) pricing model. T&M has been the gold standard for tech, legal, consulting, agency, audit, tax, and recruiting services for generations. And for good reason: Under T&M pricing, you pay for labor by the hour. It’s simple, familiar, broadly applicable, […]
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Geopolitical Volatility Has Become A Technology Leadership Test

Stephanie Balaouras March 24, 2026
Geopolitical volatility is testing and redefining technology leadership, demanding sharper trade-offs, stronger resilience, and faster decisions from CIOs and CISOs. Read guidance from our new research to help navigate these challenges.
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Why IT Service Management Platform Migrations Fail — And What IT Leaders Must Do Before Switching Platforms

Julie Mohr March 17, 2026
Many IT leaders are reconsidering whether their service management platform still meets the needs of a modern enterprise. Explore the hidden constraints of legacy systems, the risks that derail migrations, and the practices that distinguish successful IT service management transformations from those that fall short.
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When Every Enterprise Architecture Tool Looks The Same …

Stéphane Vanrechem March 17, 2026
The demos all blurred together — another week, another vendor pitch. Slide after slide promised a “single source of truth,” “360-degree visibility,” and “seamless collaboration across the enterprise.” The names and interfaces changed, but to the enterprise architecture (EA) leader in the room, it all felt like the same story with a different logo on […]
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The Latest Enterprise Software Earnings Reveals CIOs’ Risks And Leverage

Faram Medhora March 16, 2026
Enterprise AI adoption is early and uneven, but consumption pricing shifts budget risk to CIOs now. Use the gap between vendor narrative and operational reality as negotiation leverage.

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From Volatility To Chaos: Navigating Wartime Impacts For Tech Leaders

Mark Moccia March 12, 2026
Leading Through War-Driven Chaos The last few years have been defined by compounding uncertainty. From the COVID‑19 pandemic to the 2025 US tariff escalations, along with the ongoing war in Ukraine now entering its fourth year, enterprise leaders have had to navigate relentless geopolitical and economic pressure. These shocks forced organizations to strengthen their scenario […]
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When Code Is Free, What’s Left To Sell?

Frederic Giron March 8, 2026
As code becomes cheap and abundant, software vendors must rethink what customers actually pay for. Durable differentiation shifts from features to outcomes, expertise, and trust.
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When The Cloud Comes To Town: How Energy, Communities, And Accountability Need A Rethink

Abhijit Sunil March 6, 2026
The rapid expansion of AI-driven data centers transforms what once seemed like invisible, back-end digital infrastructure into a highly visible, very localized challenge. According to Forrester’s US Tech Market Forecast, 2025 To 2030, AI could add 1.3 to 1.7 gigatons of carbon emissions annually, equivalent to 2–3% of global emissions. Additionally, global data center demand […]
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