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Predictions 2027: The Pursuit And Peril Of Control

Sharyn Leaver 1 day ago
More control won’t always mean better outcomes. Leaders who know where to set guardrails and how to deftly blend AI with human judgment will have a clear advantage in the year ahead.

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When Case Studies Are Too Much Of A Good Thing

Amy Bills 13 minutes ago
When new customer advocacy programs are building a library of customer success stories, the selection process goes something like this: Successful customer? Check. Willing to share results? Check. Available in the right time frame? Check. Casting a wide net is the right call when building a foundation. But higher volume doesn’t necessarily improve buyer trust. […]
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PHP2Shell Leak Sends Security Teams Scrambling

Sandy Carielli 2 hours ago
At 14:00 UTC on October 21, PHP released patches to two critical CVEs, both of which can lead to remote code execution. CVE-2026-109618 addresses an RCE through an out-of-memory error, and CVE-2026-109619 addresses an RCE through a stale global-state issue. The flaws were discovered by researchers at Wiz and Calif, the latter as part of […]

AI Wants 20% Of Your Budget. Now What?

Get Forrester’s 2027 Predictions guide for technology and security leaders to explore five shifts shaping investment, risk, and innovation.

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Salesforce Shows What Happens When AI Has No Plan B

Joe Cicman 2 hours ago
I enjoy extreme sports because they provide evidence of the human ability to do remarkable things when the alternative is extreme catastrophe. Psychologists call it goal-shielding: commitment to one goal can push competing alternatives into the background. History has given us a more dramatic expression for the same idea: “Burn the boats.” Put less dramatically, […]
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The Most Important Finding In This Year’s AppGen Forrester Wave™ Isn’t Who The Leaders Were

Ken Parmelee 5 hours ago
Every Forrester Wave™ identifies Leaders, Strong Performers, and Contenders. But the most important finding from The Forrester Wave™: AppGen And Low-Code Platforms, Q4 2026 is that the application generation (AppGen) market has fundamentally changed. AppGen platforms are no longer competing primarily on low-code development, workflow automation, or application delivery speed. They are increasingly becoming the […]

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“Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die”

Rusty Warner 5 hours ago
If you’ve seen this post’s titular film, you know it portrays a ragtag group fighting against a dystopian AI-controlled future. I’m not worried about AI cloning our children or mastering teenage mind control via social media doom-scrolling (well, maybe a little!). But I’ve already seen brands use AI to accelerate bad marketing and destroy trust […]
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470: Practitioner Stories: AI-Driven Customer Self-Service with Ancestry and AppFolio

The CX Cast 9 hours ago
Angelina Gennis and Max Ball speak with Joe Wang of Ancestry and Guneet Singh of AppFolio about what it takes to move conversational AI into production—grounding deployment in customer experience, organizational readiness, and measurable outcomes. Featuring: Joe Wang — Director of Customer and Commnunity Experience at Ancestry Guneet Singh — VP of Customer Experience and […]
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Predictions 2027: AI’s Sovereignty Crisis Drives Governments To Attempt Greater Control

Sam Higgins 11 hours ago
AI is exposing how little control governments have over the technology, suppliers, and skills that power public services. In 2027, expect greater intervention as governments confront the limits of digital sovereignty.

A Third Of Consumers Will Reject Content They Can't Verify

Explore Forrester's 2027 Predictions guide for B2C, CX, and digital leaders to uncover the five shifts putting new pressure on brands to earn trust and regain control.

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Predictions 2027: New Products Will Fill Gaps As AI Reshapes Insurance

Indranil Bandyopadhyay 11 hours ago
Insurance will change as new risks, customer expectations, and AI reshape products and experiences. Explore three 2027 predictions for parametric coverage, longevity-focused products, and agentic AI in insurance.
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Predictions 2027: Intelligent Finance Changes The Rules Of Competition

Aurelie L'Hostis 11 hours ago
Explore three predictions for 2027 and learn how AI assistants, AI-native operating models, and intelligent finance will reshape financial services.
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Predictions 2027: A Consumer Revolution Is Rewriting Healthcare’s Rules

Arielle Trzcinski 11 hours ago
AI, direct-to-consumer services, and breakthrough therapies are changing how consumers navigate healthcare. Explore three 2027 predictions that will reshape healthcare journeys and challenge organizations to rethink their role.
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Linux Foundation Analyst Summit: “Total Cost Of AI” Is The New Economics Of AI

Kevin Ogunsua 1 day ago
At its October 8 analyst virtual summit, the Linux Foundation’s brought its technology value umbrella — Tokenomics, FinOps, Information Technology Asset Management (ITAM), and FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) — together around a bigger question: How do enterprises connect what AI costs to the business value it creates? Seven themes stood out. 1. […]
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MapQuest Goes Big On The Experience Driver It Needs Most

Rick Parrish 1 day ago
Remember MapQuest?! A few days ago, it announced a new map layer that displays the locations of known mass surveillance devices, like Flock cameras. This follows MapQuest’s announcement in September that it wouldn’t change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, as other map apps did in response to an executive order by US […]

Your Next Buyer Might Be An AI Agent

Agentic buying will touch 75% of B2B purchases by 2027. Explore Forrester's 2027 Predictions guide for B2B leaders to uncover five shifts needed to maintain trust and control.

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The Biggest Surprise From The New Revenue Enablement Platforms Forrester Wave™ Isn’t AI

Peter Ostrow 1 day ago
The Forrester Wave™: Revenue Enablement Platforms, Q4 2026 found that customers are realizing value from their platforms but are still underutilizing many of the capabilities they own. The biggest challenge is not AI innovation but driving adoption, manager engagement, and operational execution across the organization.
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Everything Is A Marketing Operating System

Emily Collins 1 day ago
Why Does Everyone Want To Be An Operating System? The appeal of the operating system concept is straightforward. It meets marketers’ need for technology and service ecosystems that can manage and coordinate workflows across people, processes, tools, and AI agents, rather than simply execute isolated tasks. It also gives providers facing the SaaS-pocalypse a stronger […]
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Predictions 2027: ​​CMOs Reckon With An AI Reality Check

Mike Proulx 1 day ago
AI’s blank check is about to expire. In 2027, CMOs will face a tougher test: proving that AI delivers enough value to justify its growing costs and risks. Discover why the next phase of AI adoption will demand sharper choices, stronger governance, and greater accountability.
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Predictions 2027: The AI Expectations Gap Will Emerge Between Leaders And Employees

Angelina Gennis 1 day ago
The gap between what leaders expect from AI and what employees experience is set to widen in 2027. Discover three predictions that show why bringing people and technology together will be critical to delivering AI value.
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Predictions 2027: B2B Go-To-Market Teams Must Adapt As AI Shifts Control To Buyers

Karen Tran 1 day ago
AI is reshaping B2B buying and exposing weaknesses in traditional go-to-market strategies. Explore three predictions for 2027 and what providers must do to compete on credibility, adoption, and trust.

2027 Predictions: Can You Control AI Without Slowing It Down?

Join Forrester analysts on December 10 to explore the 2027 predictions reshaping technology and security strategy, AI investments, risk, and governance.

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Predictions 2027: Disruption Unleashed

Brian Hopkins 1 day ago
The pressure that’s been building around enterprise AI is about to give. See three of Forrester’s 2027 AI predictions and what they mean for spending, governance, and AI platforms.
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Predictions 2027: CX Teams Build New Muscles To Seize The AI Opportunity

Rich Saunders 1 day ago
After years of disruption, CX teams face a defining moment. Discover how leaders will use AI to strengthen insights, orchestrate journeys, and elevate their strategic influence while avoiding efficiency plays that erode differentiation, human connection, and customer loyalty.
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Predictions 2027: APAC Leaders Redraw The Boundaries Of AI Control

Frederic Giron 1 day ago
As AI crosses traditional boundaries, APAC leaders face tougher choices about control, accountability, and trust. Explore three 2027 predictions that reveal where those choices will become most urgent.
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