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Use 2027 Budget Optimism To Drive An AI Reset

Sharyn Leaver July 14, 2026
Budget optimism is rising as 2027 approaches — but more spend alone won’t improve outcomes. Use this moment to reset your AI investments. Prioritize the readiness, governance, and context required to make it truly work.

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AGI Has Arrived, But It’s Just Barely Competent

Brian Hopkins 2 minutes ago
On September 6, Jensen Huang declared that AGI has arrived. Hours later, Gary Marcus answered that there was no evidence and no definition behind the claim. Both men are arguing without criteria. We published ours in August 2025, and by that yardstick the frontier just crossed into competent AGI, the first of four stages.
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The World That Spawned RevOps Is Unrecognizable

Ross Graber 3 hours ago
Over the past decade, B2B go-to-market (GTM) organizations have grown increasingly complex and fragmented. Revenue operations (RevOps) functions emerged to drive consistency, efficiency, and alignment across the GTM processes and systems that connect sales, marketing, and product functions. While never seamless, RevOps managed the mission. It standardized processes, improved data quality, drove common metrics, and brought much-needed discipline […]

Secure AI Agents Before You Scale

Scaling AI agents shouldn’t mean scaling exposure. Download Forrester’s AEGIS playbook to set guardrails on intent, authority, and access so that adoption stays accountable, auditable, and defensible.

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Companies Get The Marketing They Expect

Craig Moore 4 hours ago
Marketing’s role is shaped less by strategy documents than by the expectations executives place on the function. New research reveals a significant gap between how companies currently view marketing and how marketing leaders believe the function should contribute to growth, strategy, and business performance.
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E-Commerce: How Five CPG Brands Are Winning

Sucharita Kodali 6 hours ago
Forrester examined 24 CPG brands across the digital attributes that matter most for go-to-market success. For the e-commerce dimension, we reviewed direct-to-consumer buyability and Amazon storefront presence.

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OT Security’s Next Chapter Starts When Asset Discovery Stops Being The Goal

Paddy Harrington 6 hours ago
OT security has moved beyond simply identifying connected devices. Learn why leading organizations are shifting their focus toward reducing operational risk, strengthening resilience, and enabling safer IT and OT security collaboration.
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464: Change CX Culture By Asking Better Questions

The CX Cast 7 hours ago
Many CX leaders know culture needs to change before a customer experience (CX) transformation can succeed. The challenge is knowing where to start. In this episode, Angelina Gennis and Martin Gill explore a surprisingly simple approach: using powerful customer-focused questions as organizational rituals. Drawing on real examples from executive workshops and customer-centric organizations, they explain […]
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Social Media: How Five CPG Brands Are Winning

Sucharita Kodali 1 day ago
We analyzed 24 CPG brands across the digital attributes that matter most. Social media is a critical part of the consumer discovery journey, particularly as younger consumers use social platforms not only for inspiration and research but also to buy products.
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Trustworthy AI Won’t Scale Without A New Quality Playbook: Forrester Offers One

Diego Lo Giudice 1 day ago
AI Trust Starts Before Production AI-infused applications are moving into production faster than most enterprises can prove that they are safe, reliable, explainable, or even useful. This gap is now one of the biggest barriers to scaling AI. Our report, Trustworthy AI Starts With Testing And Evals, Not Deployment, makes a simple but urgent call […]
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Banks Are Building Private Models, But The Model Is Not The Moat

Aurelie L'Hostis 1 day ago
Discover why financial institutions are using transaction foundation models and proprietary data to build a lasting AI advantage.
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The Market Is Finally Making Fine-Tuned Models Happen

Rowan Curran 2 days ago
After years of vendors heralding the arrival of fine-tuned models to save enterprises from the latency, unpredictable costs, and strenuous upgrade lifecycles of cloud-based model APIs, the moment for fine-tuned models has finally arrived. While frontier models are massive, general-purpose, and must be run from cloud servers, fine-tuned models (mostly composed of post-trained open-weight models) […]
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AI Agents For Marketing Are Here: Are You Ready?

Joe Stanhope 2 days ago
AI agents for marketing are no longer a future state — they have arrived. Eighty-three percent of B2C marketing decision makers report actively implementing agentic AI into their workflows, and 85% agree that it’s delivering meaningful business value in their marketing efforts. With the rise of AI platforms like Claude and ChatGPT, and the majority of […]
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Answer Engines: How Five CPG Brands Are Winning

Sucharita Kodali 2 days ago
As consumers increasingly turn to answer engines to research products, brands must ensure that their content is visible in AI-powered experiences.

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CIOs: XaaS Doesn’t Mean You Need Bigger Budgets

Greg Zorella 2 days ago
Global tech spend grew 30% from $4.0 trillion in 2020 to $5.2 trillion in 2025. Yet data from Information Services Group (ISG) indicates that spend per user was flat. In fact, the global spend per user benchmark from ISG fluctuated between $15,000 and $16,000 each year from 2020 and 2025. This suggests to CIOs that […]
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For A Compelling CX Business Case, Stop Refining The Model And Start Framing The Decision

Maxie Schmidt 2 days ago
Building a CX business case can feel like an endless cycle. You’ve spent weeks gathering data, you’ve debated assumptions, you’ve refined the model three times — then the business case comes back with a familiar request: “Can you do a little more analysis?” At that moment, the problem usually isn’t the analysis at all. CX […]
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Why Total Experience Is The New Battleground For Indian Banks

Pushpa Marwal 2 days ago
For years, Indian banks competed on reach. Then they competed on products. Today, they compete on experience. Nearly every major bank now offers digital onboarding, mobile banking, and self-service capabilities. As these experiences improve across the industry, differentiation becomes harder to achieve. That is one of the clearest messages emerging from Forrester’s India Banking Total […]
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Manufacturing’s AI Future Will Be Decided At The Gemba

George Lawrie 3 days ago
Like us, you’ve probably noticed that over the past two years, most discussions about AI in manufacturing have focused on what LLMs can do for engineers, planners, and other knowledge workers. Vendors have showcased copilots that summarize documents, answer questions, and generate content. Those capabilities matter, but they may not be where manufacturers ultimately realize […]
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People Make The AI Reinvention Engine Work

Frederic Giron 4 days ago
A conversation with David Walker, former chief technology officer of Westpac and technology leader at DBS AI models may increasingly provide the intelligence for how your workflows run, but people determine where AI is applied, which work should change, how risks should be assessed and prioritized, and how value will be measured. Those aren’t entirely […]
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The Boring Truth About AI

Mark Moccia 6 days ago
Everyone and their grandmother is talking about AI, and it’s just not interesting anymore. Let’s face it, once a technology topic becomes kitchen-table conversation fodder, tech pros grow weary of discussing it. Yet every vendor has a “game-changing” solution you should buy, every staffing firm has highly trained AI specialists, and your neighborhood barista can […]
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Welcome Back, Peter Kim: Forrester’s VP, Principal Analyst Covering The AI-Enabled B2C Marketing Org

Mike Proulx September 3, 2026

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463: Distrust In The Age Of AI

The CX Cast September 3, 2026
In this episode, Martin Gill and Angelina Gennis welcome Enza Iannopollo — VP, principal analyst — to discuss new research on trust, responsible AI, and what businesses must do to earn customer confidence. Drawing on fresh European consumer data, they explore why distrust has become the default response to AI and how organizations can build experiences that customers are willing to trust. The conversation introduces four distinct consumer groups, from AI distrusters to embracers, and explains how different customers evaluate AI-enabled experiences. The discussion also examines the foundations of responsible AI, including transparency, accountability, fairness, privacy, security, reliability, and human oversight.
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