Charles Betz

Every week, I get inquiries about technical debt, whether from enterprise architects, CIOs, CTOs, offices of the CIO, or strategic portfolio managers. It’s a broad concern in IT and digital management, as well as in the minds and operating models of Forrester clients.

Get an inside look at the enterprise architecture strategies of this year’s EA Awards winner, Scotiabank, and learn which firms were runners-up.

Get a preview of Forrester’s High-Performance IT Capability Assessment, which allows users to rank perceptions of their capabilities’ maturity and look at the implications across the board.

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.

The recent ServiceNow Knowledge 2024 and Atlassian Team 24 conferences revealed a structural realignment in important sections of the IT management market. Find out how in this post.

Is an enterprise architecture tool truly essential for achieving a successful architecture practice? Hear both sides and more in this post.

Thinking about submitting an entry for Forrester’s Enterprise Architecture Awards this year? Good news: The deadline has been extended. Learn the major benefits you could gain from winning an award in this post.

As an IT organization grows, it eventually hits a point where spreadsheets aren't enough to assess its capabilities. This updated IT capability map can help assess your digital and IT organization's capabilities as well as its deficits, gaps, or redundancies.

Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Award submissions are in full swing, but the deadline for the the North American award is less than a month away. As you finalize your submissions, learn what makes a strong entry.

Modern digital and IT professionals encounter a similar dilemma: Technical debt and sprawl make IT portfolios insecure and unsustainable, but processes and controls intended to minimize debt and sprawl are themselves too often value-destroying. Are platforms the solution to this challenge?

Nominations are now open for Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Awards in partnership with the Open Group. Learn more about the awards and how your organization can apply.

The future of genAI is much bigger than question-and-answer-style chat. Learn why architects must get involved to help their organization understand its potential and the building blocks needed for a dizzying array of genAI-powered applications.

Use this impact map to understand how architecture teams can demonstrate and articulate their business value.

Learn how our winner, U.S. Bank, and finalists Rockwell Automation and Takeda Pharmaceuticals have used outcome-driven enterprise architecture for business success.

Last chance! We are extending the nomination deadline for our Technology Strategy Impact and Enterprise Architecture (EA) Awards to June 26, 2023.

Over the past 14 years, we’ve recognized 66 EA Award winners, showcasing how accountable, agile, continuous, influential, pragmatic, and valuable EA practices drive organizational adaptivity, creativity, and resilience. You can see the full year-by-year list of award winners at the end of this blog, but here’s three stories from past years that illustrate the type of outcome-driven architecture that we are seeking. And if you think your practice fits the bill, submit an entry to the 2023 EA Awards, which will be co-judged by Forrester and The Open Group.

Forrester is partnering with The Open Group on the 2023 EA Awards. Find out how to apply.

Calling all entries for the Forrester Technology Strategy Impact Awards and the Forrester/The Open Group Enterprise Architecture Awards.

The definition of “asset” has broadened well beyond traditional financial boundaries in the earliest days of IT asset management. Technology stakeholders are often confused over what constitutes an asset, and the technologies to enable enterprise asset management frequently add to this confusion.