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• Blog Le CDO Prend Sa Place Autour de la Table

  January 21, 2021 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  De plus en plus, les CDOs rejoignent la table des comités exécutifs d’entreprise. Maintenant, il faut qu’ils comprennent ce qu’on attend d’eux. Le monde a changé, et les décideurs dans...

• Blog CDOs Wanted: Dedicated, Expanded Data Insights Leadership

  January 8, 2021 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  Decision-makers cast a widening net for insights into their customers and operations: 85% of decision-makers prioritize the use of data insights, incorporating quantitative information into the...

• Report Chief Data Officers: Evolve Your Teams To Accelerate Impact From Data Insights

  January 5, 2021 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  In many organizations, the chief data officer (CDO) role has evolved to become more of a chief insights officer with purview over both data and analytics. With a single role responsible for the...

• Report Chief Data Officers: Accelerate Insights-Driven Business Impact In 12 Steps

  January 5, 2021 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  The chief data officer (CDO) role has evolved to reflect the need to be insights driven. Successful data insights leaders understand the needs of business partners and employ resources to deliver...

• Report Determine Your Data's Worth: Data Plus Use Equals Value

  Intermediate Level: Strategy Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses

  January 4, 2021 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  As the data economy heats up, the fear of being left behind leaves company execs in a cold sweat. Board members ask about data commercialization strategies, and the question that's top of mind for...

• Report Monetize Data Strategically: Prioritize Data And Analytics Initiatives

  Intermediate Level: Process Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses

  December 23, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  Everyone wants to monetize their data, but the growing stream of data and analytics requests overwhelms insights teams. In a recent Forrester inquiry, a client asked, "Is a dollar of cost savings...

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  Webinar Best Practices For Tech Transformation In Government

  November 19, 2020 | Dan Bieler, Jennifer Belissent, PhD, Sam Higgins

  Governments around the world want to serve customers better, operate more efficiently, and drive economic growth. To achieve these goals, governments must transform the ways they buy, build,...

• Blog Horizon 2021: Europe

  October 27, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  Clients pétris de contradictions, bouleversements réglementaires et essor du télétravail transfrontalier. Avec, jusqu’à présent, une épidémie mondiale et les conséquences de l’accélération du...

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  Webinar Where The Grocery Industry Goes Next: Digital Transformation And Store Operations (Part 1 of 2)

  October 23, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow, Sucharita Kodali, Emily Pfeiffer

  Forrester’s analysts present a series of overviews, panels, and discussions on the solutions, tactics, and technologies shaping the grocery industry, both in stores and online. This webinar...

• Forum Data Strategy & Insights

  Thought leadership, strategic direction, and networking opportunities needed to shape your data and analytics strategy for the coming decade.

  October 14, 2020 | Live Virtual Experience | Brandon Purcell, Noel Yuhanna, Boris Evelson

  Are you ready to turn your organization into an insights-driven enterprise? Join more than 20 Forrester analysts, industry speakers, and over 650 data and analytics practitioners for two days at...

• Blog With Data Sharing, The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts

  October 5, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  Mine! Mine! Mine! Remember the seagulls in the movie “Finding Nemo?” Each one was claiming ownership. Isn’t that so last decade? Regarding data, it fortunately is. There remain some...

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  Webinar Follow The Food Industry’s Recipe For Insights-Driven Transformation

  September 9, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  Shifting consumer preferences, climate change, overproduction, and unsustainable levels of waste add up to a food system ripe for radical transformation. Leaders at firms in every stage of food...

• Blog Pandemic-Era CDOs Represent The Whole Team: Not “Offense” Or “Defense”

  August 20, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  If one more industry pundit tells me that the chief data officer (CDO) role has shifted from defensive to offensive positioning, I just might scream — or get pretty offensive myself. It’s not about...

• Blog Data Insights Bear Fruit For The Food Industry

  August 20, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  The pandemic has impacted individual companies and industries very differently. Restaurants have been closed, while grocery stores have been overwhelmed with demand. Those who have capitalized on...

• Report Tech Budget Outlooks For France, Germany, And The UK In A COVID-19 Recession

  A Best Case Of A 5% To 7% Drop In Tech Spending In 2020 And An Alternative With Declines Of 8% To 9% In 2020 And No Growth In 2021

  July 22, 2020 | Andrew Bartels, Dan Bieler, Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  Europe's major economies of France, Germany, and the UK had been struggling coming into 2020, though with some signs of improvement. The COVID-19 virus and public health policies to contain its...

• Blog Key Takeaways From Two Forrester Wave™ Evaluations On Insights Service Providers

  June 22, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  Continuing our coverage of insights service providers, we recently published two Forrester Wave reports exploring and evaluating the current landscape. “The Forrester Wave: Enterprise...

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  Webinar Struggling To Find Value In Data? Insights Service Providers Deliver Business Value — And Build Culture And Capacity

  June 15, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  Firms make fewer than 50% of their decisions based on quantitative information as opposed to gut feeling, experience, or opinion. And, that doesn’t seem to change. Turning data into insights...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Specialized Insights Service Providers, Q2 2020

  The 13 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  June 8, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  In our 18-criterion evaluation of insights service providers, we identified the 13 most significant ones — Alibaba Cloud, BearingPoint, EPAM, Fractal Analytics, HCL, LTI, NEC, SAP, Telefónica,...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Insights Service Providers, Q2 2020

  The 13 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  June 8, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  In our 18-criterion evaluation of enterprise insights service providers, we identified the 13 most significant ones — Accenture, Atos, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte,...

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  Webinar Data Literacy: A Lifeline In Uncertain Waters

  June 8, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  The desire to become insights-driven is nearly universal — particularly in uncertain and unfamiliar times. Yet so is the struggle: 91% of global data and analytics decision makers report that...

• Blog Data Proliferation Accelerates The Need For Data Literacy

  April 14, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  With the onslaught of data and statistics about the pandemic, the world has seen an explosion of armchair virologists and policy pundits. Everyone has an insight to share, but not everyone gets it...

• Report Data Commercialization: A CIO's Guide To Taking Data To Market

  Advanced Level: Strategy Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses

  March 27, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  Digital transformation fuels a thriving data economy. As companies have embraced all things digital, many have put their data to work internally to improve operational efficiency, service delivery,...

• Blog How Data-Literate Are You? Build A Curriculum Of ACES

  February 17, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  How data-literate are you? Is your team? Is your organization — that is, everyone in it? It’s not enough to create and distribute reports and dashboards if decision makers don’t know how to...

• Report Build A Data Literacy Curriculum Of ACES

  Increase Awareness, Deepen Comprehension, Expand Expertise, And Enable Scale To Deliver True Data Literacy

  February 14, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  This is a companion report to "Data Literacy Matters: The Writing's On The Wall," which establishes the four goals of a data literacy program: awareness, comprehension, expertise, and scale (ACES)....

• Blog It’s Not All Roses (Or Popcorn): Data Literacy Starts With Recognizing Data

  February 6, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  I used to have a microwave with preprogrammed cooking times. The top button was for popcorn. The result: I cooked everything as popcorn. If that machine had been capturing data on my cooking...