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Predictions 2027: The Pursuit And Peril Of Control

Sharyn Leaver October 21, 2026
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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AI In Procurement: Experiment Like A Teenager

Jeffrey Rajamani 30 minutes ago
Teenagers are remarkably good at experimenting. They try new things, question established rules, and quickly abandon what doesn’t work. Sourcing and procurement leaders could use some of that attitude toward AI, provided they combine experimentation with clear boundaries. When it comes to AI in procurement, think like a teenager: Experiment and question the rules, but […]
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US Midterms: On Tuesday, Your Social Media Strategy Falls Apart

Kate Winick 2 hours ago
Picture this: On Tuesday, November 3, it’s Election Day. Your brand’s social media channels have been humming along, crushing engagement and creating conversation. And then seemingly out of nowhere — BOOM. Reach drops, views crater, and your team is left wondering: What did we do wrong? Social media content doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Current […]

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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Predictions 2027: Human Connection Will Be The Next Battleground For Customer Success And Service

Kate Leggett 3 hours ago
By 2027, AI alone will no longer be a competitive advantage for customer success and customer service organizations. As brands deploy similar AI capabilities, and customers increasingly interact through personal AI assistants, experiences will become harder to differentiate. This will expose the limits of automation as a CX strategy. Companies are going to have to […]
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Predictions 2027: Humans Reclaim Content Creation; Machines Dominate Content Consumption

Chuck Gahun 4 hours ago
In 2027, humans will create more authentic content to help brands balance AI visibility with the risks of malicious, misleading content and consumer mistrust. AI visibility is a must.

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Couchbase Converges The Agent Data Stack Around Operational Data

Indranil Bandyopadhyay 17 hours ago
AI agents executing complex workflows may need to combine operational and analytical data, persistent memory, semantic retrieval, and access to tools within a single reasoning loop. Together, these services make up the agent data stack. When teams build that stack from separate services, they have to integrate each service and keep copied data in sync, […]
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Data Wins The Media Agency Cola Wars

Jay Pattisall 19 hours ago
WPP and Omnicom’s recent success with the Coca-Cola Company’s global and North American media assignments can be summed up in one word: data. In fact, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo’s recent media agency reviews reveal how two competing data strategies are reshaping the global media agency market.* The Intelligence Engine Strategy Intelligence engines create value by improving […]
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Loyalty Service Providers Elevate Customer Loyalty To An Enterprise Capability

John Pedini 20 hours ago
A rapidly evolving technology landscape changes how consumers discover brands, evaluate choices, and make decisions. This shift exposes a weakness in many loyalty strategies that rely on points and discounts alone to sustain customer relationships. Traditional loyalty programs still have a role, but brands weaken program impact when they treat loyalty as a series of […]

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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PHP2Shell And The IT Visibility Crisis: Do You Know What You Have?

Charles Betz 20 hours ago
IT Visibility Is No Longer A “Nice To Have” The PHP2Shell security event is rapidly becoming a board-level conversation. Two critical PHP vulnerabilities allow unauthenticated remote code execution, and security authorities are urging organizations to patch immediately. CISA has told organizations to “identify and inventory systems running any version of PHP” while warning that PHP […]
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Anthropic’s Founders’ Letter Has The Right Ideals, But Reality Will Decide

Mike Gualtieri 22 hours ago
Here we go. Anthropic filed its S-1 on October 26, the formal start of its IPO. The financials will get the headlines, but read the founders’ letter at the beginning of the S-1. It describes how AI should be brought into the world as if from the AI company you would design from scratch: intelligence […]
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Break Out Of The Vulnerability Matrix At Forrester’s Security & Risk Forum 2026

Janet Worthington 23 hours ago
Security teams are hearing two competing stories. In one, AI completely rewrites the rules of vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and remediation. In the other, AI simply adds speed and scale to problems that security programs already understand. The reality lies somewhere in between. Discovery Is Accelerating Faster Than Decision-Making AI analyzes code, generates findings, and proposes […]
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471: Practitioner Stories: AI-Driven Customer Self-Service with Fabletics and Consensys

The CX Cast 1 day ago
Practitioners from Fabletics and Consensys offer detail on what it takes to move conversational AI into production—grounding deployment in customer experience, organizational readiness, and measurable outcomes. Featuring: Francesca Del Gobbo, Fabletics Dror Avieli, formerly of Consensys, current Chief Customer Officer at Elliptic And guest host Max Ball, Principal Analyst, Forrester Show notes: Generative AI promises […]
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Will AI Fix Your CX Measurement Or Make It Worse?

Maxie Schmidt 1 day ago
AI can accelerate analysis, reporting, insight generation, and decision support, but it won’t automatically fix the system underneath. Find answers to common questions in the first blog in our series on CX measurement.

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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Governments Can’t Just Adopt Emerging Technology — They Must Shape It

Sam Higgins 2 days ago
Government technology leaders face a growing challenge. Emerging technologies are advancing quickly, but deciding what to do about them is becoming harder. It’s about more than just deciding on the technologies that governments should invest in now. Which could improve services, increase productivity, strengthen mission outcomes, or accelerate modernization? And which require government to look […]
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I’m Digging Into Price Optimization And Management — Here’s What I’m Learning

Lisa Singer 2 days ago
I’ve spent much of my career thinking about B2B pricing. Before becoming an analyst, I managed global B2B businesses with lots of SKUs and channels and the pricing complexity that comes with a far-flung supply chain, transfer costs, and multitier distribution, and I’ve covered pricing strategy as an analyst for years. My Forrester landscape report […]
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Don’t Block All The Bots — They Might Be Shopping For Your Customers

Emily Pfeiffer 2 days ago
Bot and agent management is crucial for preventing attacks from unwanted bots. But in retail, blocking all agents can block shoppers, too.
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Predictions 2027: The Outcome Economy Hits Enterprise Software, And Reality Hits Back

Kate Leggett 2 days ago
The enterprise application is no longer the center of value creation. In 2027, AI, digital sovereignty, and changing software economics will push technology leaders to rethink how they govern enterprise outcomes.
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Predictions 2027: Automation Initiatives Become More Considered

Paul Miller 2 days ago
In 2027, business and technology leaders will take a more measured approach to automation, rethinking early AI bets, scrutinizing ROI, and focusing on initiatives that deliver sustainable value.

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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Basware Unveils Governed Agentic AP Automation

Meng Liu 2 days ago
At Basware’s VIP customer event in Dublin last week, the company set out an ambitious direction for invoice lifecycle management. Its roadmap brings together agentic AI, invoice data, payment fraud prevention, and e-invoicing compliance. The strategy reflects how the accounts payable (AP) automation market is changing. Touchless invoice processing remains important, but it’s becoming a […]
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Wealth Management Firms: Seven Ways To Derisk Your Customer Relationships

Tom Mouhsian 2 days ago
Advisor-Led Models Are Prone To Relationship Risks Traditionally, asset management firms and insurers focus on manufacturing the (investment or insurance) product and leave the acquisition and relationship management to advisors. The industry is built on that model, and the resulting value-exchange system generously rewards client advisors, brokers, and agents for consistently generating sales, growing assets […]
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Predictions 2027: Marketing Agencies Divide Between Orchestration And Execution

Jay Pattisall 2 days ago
AI won’t kill marketing agencies, but it will reshape what makes them valuable. In 2027, agencies will increasingly split between intelligence-powered transformation partners and specialist executors as brands insource more content production and demand greater AI expertise.
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