Assess Your Business-Optimized-Network Maturity

March 7th, 2024

Andre Kindness Principal Analyst

Octavio Garcia Granados Senior Analyst

Alexander Soley Researcher

With contributors:

Lauren Nelson , Arthur Ross , Rachel Birrell

Summary

In late 2015, Forrester introduced the concept of the business-optimized network (BON) — a network designed for the business you’re in. This concept is popular among the Silicon Valley unicorns but only just emerging for classic Fortune 500 companies. To set one up, you must design and operate your network according to business-centric principles, goals, and strategy, not on network capabilities alone. In this report, we help tech leaders guide their future networking investments by sharing a maturity assessment developed from working with mature, high-performing organizations that have already embraced business-optimized networks.

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