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• Report Forrester Infographic: Enable The Next-Generation Workforce With The Right Technologies

  Forrester's Visual Guide To Generational Technology Preferences

  February 26, 2021 | Andrew Hewitt

  Businesses preparing for the future of work must understand the changing technology preferences among four workforce generations. Each generation comes with its unique needs to ensure an optimal...

• Report The Forrester Guide To Equipping The Next-Gen Workforce

  Don't Let Age Define Your Workforce Enablement Strategy

  February 26, 2021 | Andrew Hewitt

  In this demographic overview, we analyze the four generations in the workplace: Generation Z, Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers. As Gen Z and Millennials increasingly represent a larger...

• Report Break Through Data Governance Fatigue

  A Framework For Effectiveness And Sustainability

  February 25, 2021 | Michele Goetz

  Data governance was never about the data. It was about your business. Focusing on command and control cultures, bureaucracy, complexity, and technology has hobbled data governance success....

• Report Forrester Infographic: Industrial Firms Must Embrace Environmental Sustainability

  Industrial Sector Firms Face Mounting Pressure To Drive Sustainability

  February 24, 2021 | Michele Pelino, Salvatore Schiano

  Industrial firms are addressing a range of environmental sustainability strategies and initiatives. These organizations span many vertical markets, including manufacturing, pharmaceuticals,...

• Report Forrester Infographic: The Internet Of Things Delivers Value Throughout The Supply Chain

  February 23, 2021 | Paul Miller, Michele Pelino

  Across many vertical markets, enterprise stakeholders and their infrastructure and operations (I&O) counterparts are using a variety of internet-of-things (IoT)-enabled processes to transform their...

• Report Firms With Advanced Marketing Teams Grow Faster And Focus On People

  Landscape: The Experience-Led Marketing Playbook

  February 22, 2021 | Mary Pilecki

  Using data from the Forrester Analytics Business Technographics® Marketing Survey, 2020, which assessed the marketing innovation maturity of firms around the world, this report offers CMOs insights...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Advanced Insights-Driven Businesses Stand Apart

  Benchmarks: The Insights-Driven Business Playbook

  February 11, 2021 | James McCormick, Srividya Sridharan

  Advanced insights-driven businesses differ from beginners in their people, technology, and process practices. They even report enviable revenue growth compared to beginners. This infographic uses...

• Report Adoption Profile: Containers In Europe, Q1 2021

  Traverse The Container Terrain To Conquer Application Modernization

  February 11, 2021 | Lauren Nelson, Paul Miller

  Software containers continue to improve European enterprise infrastructure efficiency, software development, and cloud-native project and strategic functionality — especially amid the global...

• Report Automation Drives The I&O Industrial Revolution

  Vision: The Infrastructure Transformation Playbook

  February 9, 2021 | Glenn O'Donnell

  A digital business needs technology that adapts and scales quickly, reliably, and economically. As infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals transform their infrastructure to meet this...

• 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 Rethink Metrics To Gain DX Traction

  Performance Management: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

  January 4, 2021 | Joe Cicman, Caleb Ewald

  Traditional, centralized application development and delivery (AD&D) teams often measure only two things: time and budget. Without the right metrics, AD&D doesn't have clarity about digital...

• Report Build An Outside-In Contact Center Roadmap

  Roadmap: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

  December 31, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  In most industries, a large percentage of customer contacts need support from contact center agents. Developing a solid contact center roadmap in the context of a broader customer experience (CX)...

• Report Quantifying The Business Value Of SaaS DOP Investments

  Business Case: The Digital Operations Platforms Playbook

  December 30, 2020 | Liz Herbert, Adam Schlegel

  As firms look to replace old legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions with modern digital operations platforms (DOPs) to drive business agility and customer outcomes, they're...

• Report Digital Transformation Requires Development Transformation

  Vision: The Modern Application Delivery Playbook

  December 29, 2020 | Jeffrey Hammond, Diego Lo Giudice, Christopher Condo

  Most IT organizations don't have the right operational models to develop and deliver great digital experiences. This report makes a case that digital and software development leaders should take a...

• Report Implement Essential Change Management Practices To Improve Digital Experience Delivery

  Continuous Improvement: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

  December 29, 2020 | Joe Cicman, Caleb Ewald

  So, you've finished your first major digital experience delivery project: You've launched the app, modernized the website, and integrated your digital experience technologies. Now you must create a...

• Report Digital Rewrites The Rules Of Business

  Vision: The Digital Business Playbook

  December 24, 2020 | Nigel Fenwick, Ted Schadler, Caleb Ewald

  The pandemic reinforced how technology improves the economics and capabilities of every business. Using new digital capabilities, it is 10 times cheaper and faster to adapt your workforce, engage...

• 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...

• Report Debunking Three Services Sourcing Myths

  How To Align Your Sourcing Strategies To The Future Of Services

  December 16, 2020 | Duncan Jones

  The old plan-build-run models of services are giving way to a new services paradigm where transformation is continuous and multidimensional. To derive competitive advantage from it, CIOs need...

• Survey Business Technographics® Software Survey, 2020

  December 14, 2020

  Survey Topics Priorities and structure Software strategy General software questions Application portfolio Packaged software — adoption and vendors Software as a service (SaaS) Platform as a...

• Report IoT Transforms Supply Chain Management

  Assess Opportunities To Enhance Your Supply Chain Processes Using IoT Solutions

  December 11, 2020 | Michele Pelino, Paul Miller

  Across verticals, enterprises use a variety of internet-of-things (IoT)-enabled processes to transform their end-to-end supply chain operations. This report identifies areas where IoT solutions...

• Report Build An Insights-Driven Business

  The Executive Overview Of The Insights-Driven Business Playbook

  December 9, 2020 | Srividya Sridharan, Gene Leganza

  In a hypercompetitive business environment and the post-pandemic world, applying data and analytics at every chance to differentiate products and customer experiences is a prerequisite for success....

• Report DataOps For The Intelligent Edge Of Business

  Go Beyond Traditional Data Management And Governance

  December 3, 2020 | Michele Goetz

  The world of data is changing from persistent states to data in motion. New data management and governance practices are necessary to move from analytics to operational use cases. To make this...

• Report Cloud Powers The Adaptive Enterprise

  Vision: The Cloud Computing Playbook

  November 30, 2020 | Dave Bartoletti

  Cloud is no longer tactical but rather a strategic enabler of connected platform economies. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders must orchestrate cloud ecosystems that link employees,...

• Survey Business Technographics® Business And Technology Services Survey, 2020

  November 23, 2020

  Survey Topics Priorities Use cases of third-party services Vendor selection and selection criteria Vendors and strategic partnerships Digital transformation Budget and spending Digital business...

• Report Analytics, Cloud, And Intelligent Content Services: Stay Ahead Of The Curve

  Benchmarks: The Enterprise Content Management Playbook

  November 6, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Benchmarks provide enterprise architecture (EA) professionals and their content management program peers with data to inform their roadmaps. Use this report to gauge how other organizations invest...