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Forum Data Strategy & Insights 2019
The Insights-Driven Enterprise: Data Strategies for Business Transformation
It's time to stop drowning in data. The insights-driven enterprise is dependent on a critical, shared resource: deep pools of data. Data analytics, data governance, and data infrastructure are...
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Blog What’s News In Food Tech? Data Tools Help Separate The Wheat From The Chaff
April 12, 2019 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.Looking for a new data source to deliver differentiating insights? Yeah, you and everyone else. It’s not easy to find that local knowledge or the heads-up about something that will drive business....
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Blog Hunting For Fresh Insight? Arm Yourself With Our New Guide To Data Sourcing
April 10, 2019 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.Are you a data hunter? Got one on your team? It’s not enough to gather data — you need to actively hunt for it. When it comes to data, especially according to the decision makers asking for it,...
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Report Need External Data? Explore The New Data Landscape
Companion To The Insights Professional's Guide To External Data Sourcing
April 10, 2019 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.The growing number of data providers makes navigating the new data landscape daunting. Data originators, data aggregators, data brokers, curated and self-service marketplaces, and insights service...
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Report The Insights Professional's Guide To External Data Sourcing
Beginner Level: Data Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses
April 10, 2019 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.Decision makers want to better leverage data insights — no longer only from their own internal data. External data adds context and drives differentiation. With a growing variety of data sources...
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Report Forrester Infographic: Think You're Doing Data Sourcing Right? Think Again
A Visual Summary Of The Insights Professional's Guide To External Data Sourcing
April 10, 2019 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.Decision makers know they need to be insights driven to create differentiation and competitive advantage. And they know that their own internal data is not enough. In today's competitive...
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Blog Data And Analytics Leaders, We Need You!
March 7, 2019 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.How do you create an insights-driven organization? One way is leadership. And we’d like to hear about yours. Today, half of the respondents in Forrester’s Business Technographics® survey data...
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Blog Mobile World Congress Offers Food For Thought
March 4, 2019 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.Mobile World Congress (MWC) is overwhelming on multiple dimensions. This year, the organizers counted more than 109,000 visitors from over 198 countries and territories and 2,400 exhibitors...
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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
Intermediate Level: Process 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...