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Make People The Key To Your Success In An AI World

James L. McQuivey, PhD June 11, 2024
Success with AI will depend on how effectively you lead your people who leverage powerful AI tools. Learn how to effectively find and train talent for AI in this preview of our upcoming Technology & Innovation Summits.
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The CrowdStrike Moment Calls For A Redefinition Of Business Resilience

Charles Betz 13 hours ago
Crises such as the one triggered by CrowdStrike's global outage shine a bright light on many aspects of business and technology. Our new report provides a thorough overview of recommended actions for tech leaders as they face the unfolding long-term repercussions.
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NPS Q&A Part 1: Controversy, Fit, And Alternatives

Maxie Schmidt 2 days ago
If your organization uses Net Promoter Score as a CX KPI, how can you put it to best use? Find answers in the first of a two-part blog series.

Align Marketing And Sales Teams On Customer Value

Want to maximize revenue by prioritizing customer value? Discover how the Forrester Opportunity Lifecycle keeps teams engaged with customers at every stage of their journey.

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Is AI Making Employee Burnout Better Or Worse?

What It Means 2 days ago
AI has been portrayed as both the solution to and the cause of employee burnout. Which is it? In this episode, VP and Principal Analyst J. P. Gownder and Senior Analyst Jonathan Roberts describe the impact of AI on employee burnout.
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Budget Planning Season Is Coming. Use Forrester’s Budget Planning Guides To Cut Through Complexity.

Sharyn Leaver July 18, 2024
Our Budget Planning Guides will steer you toward budgeting decisions that set you up for success in 2025. Get a preview of what to expect when the guides launch on August 1.
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The Benefits And Challenges Of Industry Clouds

What It Means July 18, 2024
What are industry clouds? What are their use cases, benefits, and drawbacks? Find out as VP and Principal Analyst Kate Leggett provides a detailed look at the latest trends in industry clouds.

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RevOps And AI: The Cobbler’s Children Need Shoes Too

Simon Daniels 12 hours ago
Generative AI is already widely adopted in B2B marketing across a range of applications, often deployed by Revenue Operations teams on behalf of the wider revenue ecosystem. How should revops teams themselves use AI though to maximise their own efficiency and performance?
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Redefining Industry: China’s Leap Into GenAI-Driven Manufacturing Excellence

Charlie Dai 13 hours ago
In the rapidly evolving landscape of smart manufacturing, generative AI (genAI) is driving a shift in industry standards and operating models. In China, this emerging technology is enabling leading manufacturing firms to enhance their innovation and efficiency, positioning them as key players on the global stage. Our latest report delves into the adoption of genAI […]

Don’t Get Blinded By Shiny Tech Objects

Get our guide to building a business case for emerging technology investment, identifying use cases, and securing support — and learn how Forrester’s CaDI analysis framework can prevent you from going down the wrong path.

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Participate In Forrester’s 2024 State Of ABM Survey

Nora Conklin 1 day ago
Forrester’s biennial State of ABM survey is back, and we’re inviting you to participate! Everyone who completes the survey will gain access to the latest trends regarding the current state of account-based marketing (ABM) and how their peers are focusing their efforts. Overview We’ve been speaking about the convergence of demand and ABM for years. […]
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Converging Platforms For Greater Efficiency: The Rise Of Revenue Marketing Platforms

Kelvin Gee 1 day ago
The proliferation of data and the shift towards buying groups have set MAP and ABM platforms on a collision course. It also has paved the way for what we now call Revenue Marketing Platforms — an innovation that merges the best of both MAP and ABM into a single, comprehensive hub.
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Wasn’t Generative AI Supposed To Disrupt Business Intelligence?

Boris Evelson 1 day ago
Generative AI was supposed to disrupt how we analyze data using BI tools. Find out why that hasn't happened yet.
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Salesforce Makes Moves Into The Back Office With A Strategic Workday Partnership

Kate Leggett 1 day ago
Salesforce and Workday announced a strategic partnership to blend customer, financial, and employee data in a shared data foundation that negates the need to duplicate data or build custom integration. The result? Optimized employee and customer experiences that up-level business outcomes for joint Salesforce-Workday customers. The strategic objective? Salesforce extends its power into back-office workflows […]
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Revolut Secures Its Banking License — Crowning A Decade Of Digital Banks

Aurelie L'Hostis 2 days ago
Digital banks are gaining traction among consumers globally. Learn what incumbent banks should do to compete.

Capture & Prove Marketing’s True Value Beyond Sourcing Metrics

Download our measurement toolkit to discover demand performance indicators and metrics to reveal marketing’s real business impact across complex buyer journeys.

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Learnings From The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization Solutions, Q3 2024

Tracy Woo 2 days ago
At long last, The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization [CCMO] Solutions, Q3 2024 is published! This process is incredibly long and thorough. We go through hours-long briefings and customer calls and perform multiple iterations on scoring; the vendors go through the same. They put in many hours setting up customer references, product demonstrations, […]
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Viele Umfragen, wenig Wirkung: Forrester-Umfrage 2023 „State of VoC & CX Measurement“

Colleen Fazio 25 Juli 2024
Die Ergebnisse der Forrester-Umfrage „2023 State of VoC and CX Measurement Practices“ liegen vor. Sie zeigen einige anhaltende Trends - und einige interessante Verschiebungen.
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NPS Q&A Part 2: Financial Linkage, Targets, And Benchmarking

Maxie Schmidt 2 days ago
How do companies tie Net Promoter Score to financial success, and should you benchmark NPS? Find answers to these questions and others in the second blog of a two-part series.
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B2B Summit APAC 2024: Transform Your Growth Engine

Dane Anderson 2 days ago
Learn what to expect at Forrester's premier event for B2B marketing, sales, and product leaders and teams in Asia Pacific this October.
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The Future Of Mobility Must Bring Change In The Air, Too

Paul Miller 2 days ago
The future of mobility means much more than electric vehicles or autonomous mobility. Any discussion of the future of mobility must consider the movement of individuals and small groups, the movement of larger groups, and the movement of goods. Learn more in this preview of an upcoming client webinar.
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Insights From The 25th Accenture SAP Leadership Council

Dario Maisto 3 days ago
From June 10–12, Accenture hosted clients, consultants, analysts, and SAP staff in Cannes for the 25th Accenture SAP Leadership Council. Get four key takeaways from the event in this blog.
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Don’t Wait For A Crisis To Act

Ian Bruce 3 days ago
CrowdStrike's recent global incident underscores businesses' need to have robust crisis communication plans in place before a crisis occurs.
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Even GenAI-Trained Execs Are Confused About It (Our Survey Shows) — So Give Them Better Training

David Truog 3 days ago
Do executives understand generative AI (genAI) better than consumers do? Nope — apparently not. Our research shows that among consumers, generative AI is poorly understood or not at all (see The State Of Consumer Usage Of Generative AI, 2024). And you might think that execs would be better informed, considering the high-stakes decisions they must […]
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RAG Is All The Rage — And The Machine Is Getting More Complex

Rowan Curran 3 days ago
In our previous blog post on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), we explained the motivation for implementing a RAG architecture and presented a very basic example architecture for retrieving enterprise knowledge. But the solution doesn’t stop there; in this blog post, we’ll describe advanced RAG architectures for enterprise knowledge applications. In the previous post, we showed how […]
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The Global Digital Economy Will Reach $16.5 Trillion And Capture 17% Of Global GDP By 2028

Michael O'Grady 3 days ago
Digital Transformation Is A Cornerstone Of Innovation And Sustainable Growth The World Economic Forum estimates that more than two-thirds of new value creation over the next decade could come from digitally enabled platforms. Forrester’s new Global Digital Economy Forecast measures the size and growth of the digital economy across technology spend, retail, travel e-commerce, insurance […]

Fuel Growth With Strong Marketing-Sales Alignment

Download our alignment handbook to thrive in a complex buyer landscape with teams, processes, and objectives aligned across the customer lifecycle.

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RAG Is All The Rage — Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Demystified

Rowan Curran 3 days ago
Enterprises experimenting with generative AI (genAI) are prioritizing use cases that enable internal and external users to better retrieve information they need, be it data, how-to pages, corporate policies, or return policies. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is now the most common underlying approach for building this type of large language model (LLM)-based enterprise knowledge-retrieval application. What […]
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364: Global And Local Themes At Our CX Summits

The CX Cast 4 days ago
CX event season may be over, but we're not done with it on the CX Cast yet! VP, Research Director Rick Parrish joins us this week to compare and contrast his experience hosting CX North America with Martin's experience hosting CX EMEA this year.
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Trusted AI Begins And Ends With Alignment

Brandon Purcell 4 days ago
What do discrimination, harmful content, unexpected outcomes, and catastrophic business failure have in common? They are all potential consequences of misaligned AI. They are also largely avoidable. Misaligned AI erodes trust among employees, customers, government, and other stakeholders, and trusted AI holds the key to enterprise AI success. Without trust in AI, enterprises will not […]
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