Charts & Figures
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Theoretical Data Valuation Formulas Fall Short
February 5, 2019
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Tiered Product Offerings Facilitate Adoption And Upsell
February 5, 2019
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Report Determine Your Data's Worth: Data Plus Use Equals Value
Intermediate Level: Strategy Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses
February 5, 2019 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.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 is top of mind for...
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Blog There’s No “Data Strategy” — Align Insights Priorities To Your Business Strategy
December 6, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.Greetings from sunny but cold Orlando, where the inaugural Forrester Data Strategy & Insights Forum just wrapped up. During the event, I spent time with a seasoned data professional who joined...
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Report Prioritize Data And Analytics Requests
Beginner Level: Strategy Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses
December 4, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.A growing stream of data and analytics requests is overwhelming insights teams, who recognize that not all demands are equal. In a recent Forrester inquiry, a client asked, "Is a dollar of cost...
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Report Smart City Platforms Enable The Insights-Driven City
Build A Foundation To Improve Operations And Citizen Experience
Cities leaders recognize the need to invest in infrastructure and applications to improve their operations, the services they provide constituents, and the overall experience of their citizens. New...
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Blog Do Cities Need A “Smart City Platform”?
December 3, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.Do cities need a “smart city platform”? It depends. Clients have been asking Forrester about our thoughts on new IoT-enabled smart city platforms launched by vendors focused on transforming city...
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Blog Deep Dive Into Data Commercialization At Forrester’s Data Strategy & Insights 2018 Forum
November 28, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.I’m often asked the question, “What’s my data worth?” And my immediate (and somewhat provocative) response is “Nothing!” Data is, without a doubt, valuable. But when stored in vaults and locked...
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Webinar Insights Services: There’s Someone For Everyone
Using The Forrester Wave™
In a recent Forrester Analytics Business Technographics® survey, a whopping 88% of decision makers told us they want to better leverage data insights in their business decision making....
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Report Predictions 2019: Business Insights
Don't Demonize Data — It's Still The Lifeblood Of Business Insights
While AI is the darling of the day, enterprises often forget that to leverage the power of AI, you still need to transform your business into an insights-driven business. That means continuing to...
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Blog Data Commercialization Isn’t Easy — And Many Initiatives Will Fail
November 6, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.The hype around big data got several things right, one being that data volumes are big and growing quickly. Digital transformation — as well as the growing adoption of IoT and the ubiquity of the...
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Blog Two Forrester Waves™ Evaluate The Top Insights Services Providers
October 2, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.Struggling to meet the needs of data- and analytics-needs decision makers? There is help out there! Executives across industries recognize their organizations’ need for digital...
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Report The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Insights Service Providers, Q3 2018
The 11 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
In our 20-criterion evaluation of the enterprise insights service providers, we identified the 11 most significant ones — Accenture, Atos, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, EY, Infosys, KPMG,...
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Report The Forrester Wave™: Specialized Insights Service Providers, Q3 2018
The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
In our 20-criterion evaluation of specialized insights service providers, we identified the nine most significant ones — Alibaba Cloud, Fractal Analytics, Genpact, IBM, Opera Solutions, SAP,...
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Webinar Your Data Is Worth Nothing — Unless You Use It
August 29, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.As the data economy heats up, the fear of being left behind leaves some company execs in a cold sweat. “What’s my data worth?” is top of mind. Companies are looking for ways to...
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Blog AI Takes Location To A New Level
June 5, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.I’m really excited to join VentureBeat today for the webinar: “AI-powered location: A step closer to the future?” This isn’t my first foray into the spatial and mapping world. In...
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Blog Telecom Operators Deliver Insights Services — With Network And Subscriber Data
June 3, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.A few years ago, I met with an incumbent telecom provider in Europe, and they came across as being from “the old country.” I asked about their data strategy, and they were horrified at the thought...
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Report Design Data Governance For The Data Economy
Visionary Vendors And Data Providers Address New Requirements
The data economy is thriving. Firms are eager to deliver a seemingly endless supply of data and insights to meet the insatiable demand. This new frenzy raises the bar on data governance — data...
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Blog Your Data Is Worth Nothing — Unless You Use It
April 25, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.I’m often asked the question, “What’s my data worth?” And my immediate (and somewhat provocative) response is “Nothing!” As the data economy heats up, the fear of being left behind leaves some...
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Report Telecom Operators Must Embrace The Data Economy
Network Traffic Data Fuels Rich Insights Services
March 28, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.For many telecom operators, data strategy means selling subscribers more download capacity — upgrades from basic data plans to unlimited access to beIN Sports, Netflix, and YouTube. But this...
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Report Strategic CDOs Accelerate Insights-To-Action
Ten Steps To Better Serve Business Partners
March 19, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.New data and analytics leadership has proliferated. To explore these relatively new roles, Forrester conducted an online survey and extensive interviews with chief data officers (CDOs) and chief...
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Report Insights-Driven Businesses Appoint Data Leadership
Intermediate Level: People Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses
March 19, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.New data and analytics leadership roles come with many titles but ultimately the same responsibility: to drive not only the management and governance of data but also its use across the...
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Blog Rethinking Mobility: There’s More Than Autonomous Cars
February 15, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.A first for me. I’d never been to Detroit, and now I have. Last week, I participated in a roundtable on autonomous cars, and transformation in the automotive industry. Yes, autonomous cars will...
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Report Partner Strategically To Accelerate Your Insights-Driven Business
Advanced Level: People Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses
January 22, 2018 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.Concerned with time-to-market and inspired by new business models, business and technology execs look to service providers for relevant insights that they can apply directly to their business...
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Report Data Leaders Weave An Insights-Driven Corporate Fabric
Chief Data Officers And Chief Analytics Officers Raise Awareness And Understanding Of Data Use And Value
Becoming insights-driven is now the holy grail of business transformation, and many firms are making concrete progress toward this end. However, change doesn't come easy. In this report, chief data...
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Webinar Data Leadership Is Here To Stay: How To Build A Centralized Data And Analytics Function
December 7, 2017 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.The chief data officer (CDO) used to be the new kid on the block. Not anymore. Today, 51% of data and analytics decision makers report working for a firm with a CDO; of those currently without the...
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Report Predictions 2018: IoT Moves From Experimentation To Business Scale
Business stakeholders and CIOs across all vertical markets are planning and deploying IoT solutions to bridge the physical and digital worlds of their organizations to create new opportunities for...