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Invest, Experiment, And Scale Back: Budget Priorities For CISOs In 2025

Jeff Pollard August 1, 2024
The majority of security technology decision-makers anticipate further budget increases in 2025. Learn three key areas for CISOs to focus on in the year ahead in this preview of our 2025 Budget Planning Guide for security leaders.
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Budget Planning Guide 2025 For APAC Tech Leaders: Where To Invest, Cut, And Experiment

Frederic Giron 3 days ago
According to Forrester data, 95% of APAC technology decision-makers anticipate increased IT budgets next year. But macroeconomic uncertainty will force IT leaders to make tough decisions. Get insight into where to invest, where to cut, and where to experiment with your 2025 IT budget.
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How GenAI Will Transform The Contact Center

What It Means 3 days ago
Generative AI (genAI) holds tantalizing potential for contact centers, but turning that potential into reality will require overcoming some hurdles. How should contact center leaders get started? Senior Analyst Christina McAllister provides insight on What It Means.

Get More From Your 2025 B2B Marketing Budget

Synergy and collaboration will be key to making marketing investments go further. Download our 2025 B2B marketing Planning Guide to learn more.

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Revenue Enablement Is Not In The Tool Business

Peter Ostrow 5 days ago
No sales force can function without technology, but enablement leaders must emphasize and communicate revenue-centric outcomes, treating tools as supporting actors rather than spotlighted vanity projects. Never forget that revenue enablement is not in the tool business — it’s in the empowerment business.
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Celebrating Excellence: Scotiabank Wins The 15th Annual Enterprise Architecture Award In North America

Charles Betz 6 days ago
Get an inside look at the enterprise architecture strategies of this year’s EA Awards winner, Scotiabank, and learn which firms were runners-up.
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Is GTM The New ABM? Or Is It Just The Latest B2B Land Grab?

Nicky Briggs 6 days ago
Platform vendors and service providers previously associated with ABM are now adopting a different acronym. Attempting to profit on the GTM buzz could backfire.

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Start Building Your IT Strategy At T&I Summit 2024

Marianne Doran-Collins 2 days ago
The days of creating an IT strategy in a vacuum are long gone. With technology embedded ever deeper in the business, strategy conversations between business and IT organizations must stay fluent and on point. Get a blueprint of the steps needed to rapidly create a technology strategy, in a preview of our recently published research.
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Your Personas Are Outdated: It’s Time To Evolve Your Approach

Audrey Chee-Read 3 days ago
Personas are a seemingly foundational and simple tool, yet deceptively challenging. At Forrester, we’ve fielded numerous client requests to better understand how to create, evolve, and operationalize personas. And we’ve seen a range of success with personas: from companies who have created best-in-class, well-adopted personas to personas that are left on a shelf or lead […]

Focus 2025 Security Budgets On Risk Mitigation And Tech Sprawl

Security leaders, explore our 2025 Planning Guide for benchmarks on where to invest, divest, and experiment with your budget.

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How India’s National Stock Exchange Builds Its Critical IT Infrastructure

Ashutosh Sharma 3 days ago
Learn how one of the largest stock exchanges in the world uses information technology to deliver services that meet stringent regulatory standards as well as unique investor needs.
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The Funnel Is Old, Unrealistic, And Still Helpful

Nikhil Lai 3 days ago
In 1898, Elias St. Elmo Lewis developed the advertising funnel. He was the Association of National Advertisers’ first president and, along with the funnel, developed the AIDA model, an acronym that models a consumer’s journey from awareness to interest, desire, and then action. More than 125 years after its conception, brand marketers are still planning […]
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Introducing Forrester’s Three-Pillar API Enablement Model

David Mooter 4 days ago
An API program must move beyond its tech orientation. Forrester’s Three-Pillar API Enablement Model provides you direction.
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Unleash The Power Of Tech: Technology & Innovation Summit APAC

Frederic Giron 4 days ago
In an era when AI’s potential is burgeoning, technology, data, and security leaders face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Forrester’s Technology & Innovation Summit APAC is your gateway to navigating this transformative landscape. Join us in Sydney on October 29, 2024, to harness the power of tech, talent, and AI and drive your business to new […]
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Why Revenue Operations (RevOps) Should Be On Your Radar

Jerry Zhao 4 days ago
Does “revenue operations” seem like someone else’s responsibility? Think again! Your Organization’s Operational Capabilities Alignment Impacts Its Revenue Ecosystem Marketing ops, sales ops, and customer success ops are integral components of a B2B organization’s revenue operations (RevOps). Traditionally, these teams have developed their capabilities to support their specific domain, but in today’s challenging economic landscape, […]

Drive High Performance With Your 2025 Tech Budget

2025 tech budgets are on the rise. Get our 2025 Planning Guide to learn where to invest your tech spend to boost performance, drive growth, and deliver competitive advantage.

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368: How To Solve For CX With GenAI Hackathons

The CX Cast 5 days ago
How can CX leaders apply generative AI to creating customer experiences or transforming their work? Listen to learn how CX leaders can run genAI hackathons to help Forrester teams and clients experiment with genAI tools in a safe, fun, and engaging environment.
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The Singapore CX Index Rankings, 2024

Tom Mouhsian 5 days ago
Singapore’s Financial Service Industry Customers Rate Their Experiences As Just “OK” In 2024 Forrester has been evaluating the quality of customer experience (CX) at leading financial service providers in Singapore since 2018. This year, we’ve expanded the coverage of our Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) beyond retail banking and auto and home insurance to include […]
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Look Around: You’re Missing A Big Benefit Of Customer Obsession

Amy Bills 5 days ago
When successful customers share their experience with your company, they support your brand, reach, and reputation. To ensure that those successful customers are ready, willing, and able to provide references and success stories to support your brand, invest in strategic customer advocacy.
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To Build Your Best Marketing Organization, Unbox Your Org Chart

Dipanjan Chatterjee 5 days ago
As changes in media and technology have upended how consumers discover and engage with companies, marketing organizations need a more flexible approach.
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The Forrester Wave™: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q3 2024, Showcases Innovators

Shar VanBoskirk 5 days ago
I’m pleased to announce the release of The Forrester Wave™: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q3 2024. This marks what I believe is the 15th time I’ve authored the Forrester Wave evaluation of this vendor category! For those of you interested in doing a little “now and then” analysis, you’ll want to find the 2004 version […]

From AI To Cloud: Where To Invest In 2025

Tech infrastructure budgets are rising, but businesses want outcomes from every dollar spent. Optimize your 2025 budget using insights from our tech infrastructure Planning Guide.

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HPE Seeks To Bolster Its Hybrid Cloud Management Capabilities And Credibility With Morpheus Acquisition

Tracy Woo August 16, 2024
Hewlett Packard Enterprise recently announced an agreement to acquire Morpheus Data, a multicloud management solution. Find out what this means for the two firms and their customers in this blog.
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Generative AI Impact On Clinicians: Bringing The Fever Down

Shannon Germain Farraher August 16, 2024
Forrester research reveals that 46% of US healthcare organizations are in initial production implementation of generative AI (with departmental-scale use cases), scaling up to enterprise-level deployment. But it will take time, trial and error, training, and talent to make meaningful strides that positively impact the clinical workforce.
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The 10 Most Important Cloud Trends For 2024

Tracy Woo August 15, 2024
Curious about the top cloud trends in 2024? Learn three of the top 10 cloud trends for 2024 in this preview of a new report.
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Serverless Is Trending Again In Modern Application Development

Devin Dickerson August 15, 2024
For a time, it appeared that the reach of serverless platforms had exceeded their grasp. After some notable success stories like the high-profile “serverless-first” Capital One strategy, hype appeared to be dying down. This is partly because serverless has always struggled from unclean definitions, and despite the lack of infrastructure and application servers to wrangle […]
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US Government Tackles “Doom Loops” (But Risks Customer Service Chaos) 

Christina McAllister August 15, 2024
The newly launched "Time Is Money" initiative may have unintended consequences. Learn what they are, and what actions might be more meaningful.

Overhaul Core Competencies With Your 2025 CX Budget

Download our 2025 Planning Guide for CX leaders to learn how to allocate your 2025 budget to reverse CX declines and boost quality.

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The Curtain Falls On GARM — Revealing Industrywide Brand Safety Issues

Mo Allibhai August 15, 2024
If you’ve ever seen The Wizard of Oz, you might remember the moment when Dorothy realizes the Wizard is not in fact all-powerful. He is just a man with a very loud voice. She also learns that she doesn’t need his power or magic to send her home — the power lies within herself. This […]
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Travel Spending On Track To Return To Pre-Pandemic Levels By End Of 2024

Cindy Liu August 15, 2024
Global travel spending is roaring back and will fully recover to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2024, surpassing $2 trillion. The resurgence of international travel demand in Asia Pacific and strong leisure travel demand in North America and Europe will power this growth. The road to recovery has been uneven across regions, however. Among […]
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What Will It Take To Eliminate Medical Deserts?

What It Means August 15, 2024
Medical deserts — geographic areas that lack essential healthcare services — encompass over 80% of counties in the US. How did we get here, and what will it take to reverse the trend? Principal Analysts Arielle Trzcinski and Judy Weader discuss on What It Means.
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