Business & IT Alignment

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Get Your AI Aligned

What It Means November 14, 2024
The big challenge with AI for business is risk. How can an organization minimize the risk while maximizing the benefit of AI? In this episode, Vice President and Principal Analyst Brandon Purcell proposes a solution to this challenge — AI alignment — and outlines how an “align by design” approach can help.
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Use Skills-Based Talent Practices To Future-Proof Your Tech Organization

Fiona Mark November 13, 2024
Tech leaders are being asked to do more with fewer resources available, which makes cultivating the right skills in the workforce essential. The implementation of generative AI (genAI) potentially brings productivity gains but is also a point of concern, with employees experiencing what one chief product officer at a tech workforce development company calls an […]
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A Week At The TBM Conference

Charles Betz November 11, 2024
Get a review of the recent TBM Conference which focused on product centricity and transparency in the modern IT operating model.
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Craft An Intelligent Business Case For SaaS ERP

Liz Herbert October 30, 2024
One of the most strategic, and costly, business applications is enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. ERP is critical to an organization, underpinning functions such as finance and business operations. Organizations should strive for a modern ERP solution, but modernizing ERP is often a costly and time-consuming process.
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AI And GenAI Are Game-Changers For Enterprise Architecture Leaders

Stéphane Vanrechem October 29, 2024
Generative AI has started to drive new levels of business value as it cuts across different domains of business operations. Learn how AI and genAI will disrupt the enterprise architecture discipline in this preview of a new report.
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The Language Of High-Performance IT For The Public Sector And Government

Sam Higgins October 27, 2024
One of the core principles of high-performance IT is alignment. But what we are aligning to differs greatly between the public and private sectors. It’s also important to recognize the cultural and linguistic differences between the private and public sectors. Aligning language in this way helps ensure that everyone is on the same page, which can significantly improve communication, reduce misunderstandings, and lead to more effective initiatives.
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Lead A High-Performing Digital Team

Dan Bieler October 23, 2024
Digital teams are primarily tasked with designing, delivering, and managing digital products or services, launching digital innovations, and developing the digital roadmap.

Jan. 30 Tech & Security Predictions Webinar

Join us to dive into the top 2025 predictions and discover their impact on your tech and security strategies — with exclusive insights from the analysts who conducted the research.

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Is Keeping Your Commerce Tech Vendor The Right Move For You?

Emily Pfeiffer October 15, 2024
To retain or replatform your commerce technology solution? Forrester’s latest research guides leaders on how to answer this burning question.
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IBM Vies For Positioning As The De Facto FinOps Solution

Tracy Woo September 19, 2024
On Tuesday, IBM announced its acquisition of Kubernetes cost management solution Kubecost. This acquisition follows a series of FinOps-focused companies in recent years with Apptio (TBM/FinOps), Turbonomic (FinOps/resource automation), Nordcloud (FinOps services), and Instana (observability). Answers To Your Top Questions About The Kubecost Acquistion What should I know? Kubecost enhances an already market-leading solution. In […]
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Why Forrester’s SAP Services Landscape, Q3 2024, Is So Important

Akshara Naik Lopez September 16, 2024
We recently completed The SAP Services Landscape, Q3 2024. A lot has changed in the SAP ecosystem since the last edition of this Forrester landscape. SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA cloud migrations are taking center stage for the vast majority of SAP clients. The RISE with SAP offering has undergone massive changes in the last […]
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Technology Leaders Deliver Significantly Stronger Business Outcomes With High-Performance IT

Chuck Gahun September 5, 2024
The data is clear: high-performance IT shops deliver better business outcomes and experience growth that is 1.8x faster than their peers. Find out why.
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Key Insights And Recommendations From VMware Explore 2024

Naveen Chhabra September 4, 2024
Get six key takeaways from the annual VMware Explore 2024 conference and find out what they mean for technology leaders.

Ready For These 2025 Tech And Security Shifts?

Step into 2025 with confidence! Explore our predictions for tech and security leaders, featuring key trends in AI, cloud, SDLC, and AIOps you need to know.

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Start Building Your IT Strategy At Technology & Innovation Summit North America

Marianne Doran-Collins August 22, 2024
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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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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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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AI Alignment: The Technology Leader’s Point Of View

Brian Hopkins July 23, 2024
Before 2022, software development primarily focused on reliability and functionality testing, given the predictable nature of traditional systems and apps. With the rise of generative AI (genAI) models, however, the concept of model and AI alignment has become increasingly crucial. Generative AI models are progressing from simple knowledge recall to handling complex tasks requiring advanced […]
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ServiceNow And Atlassian: The Rise Of IT Management Platforms

Charles Betz July 15, 2024
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.

Plan Your IT & Security Budgets For 2025 Success

Watch our on-demand technology budget planning webinar. Get benchmarks for strategic investments, divestments, and experiments to maximize business value from 2025 tech and security spending.

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AIOps Drives Observability And Business Outcomes In IT

Carlos Casanova July 10, 2024
AIOps is a critical tool for IT leaders aiming to run high-performance organizations and drive business outcomes. Learn more about the benefits of AIops in this preview of our upcoming Technology & Innovation Summit North America.
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Greeking Out: Aristotle’s Guide To AIOps Mastery

Carlos Casanova July 3, 2024
Aristotle’s wisdom nails it: mastering precision, appropriateness, timeliness, intentionality, and methodology isn’t just for anger management — it's crucial for AIOps too. In the chaotic world of IT, we need to separate the signal from the noise and act with clear intention.
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The Four Styles Of High-Performance IT

Matthew Guarini June 25, 2024
Most IT organizations follow a dominant style that best aligns with their business objectives. High-performance IT identifies and defines four common high-performance styles to help IT leaders craft the optimal portfolio of capabilities. Learn more in this post.
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