Business & IT Alignment

Struggling to move beyond agile and scale innovation across your organization? Learn how establishing new practices can help.

Learn how to leverage adaptive technology platforms to nurture innovation at your organization.

In our previous blog, we discussed the strategic shift from efficiency to effectiveness and the organizational implications from it. One implication is the ever-quickening pace of technology advancement and how organizations position themselves to exploit that advancement at scale to adapt or create new capabilities and services. The key element here is “at scale.” New […]

At Forrester we're refining our definition of what an industrial IoT software platform is while introducing a new term to address broader requirements and use cases.

Firms with a strong, adaptive foundation will succeed in an era of unprecedented change by reconfiguring their core business concepts and meeting customers' emerging needs and expectations. Find out how.

The Future Fit Challenge Applies Today, Not Just Tomorrow CIOs and technology leaders have a core objective to develop and improve the technology foundations and innovation their firms need to win, serve, and retain customers. They must also enable their employees with the capabilities to achieve this customer obsession in an efficient and effective way. […]

Learn the three tactics your organization can use to shift from technology supporting business value to technology shaping business value.

Crisis-Driven Innovation — A Wake-Up Call There is nothing like a crisis to fuel innovation. In a crisis, people and businesses can behave in extraordinary ways. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, innovation and invention jumped to the fore as industries pivoted. Distillers and brewers repurposed alcohol for hand sanitizers, and engineering companies made ventilators. […]

As I begin my career at Forrester, it seems proper to have my first blog introduce my coverage areas and how they interact, generate relevancy, and create value.  The nature, design, and performance of managed organizations is evolving to accommodate drastic advancements in technology. To put this into context, technology investment has increased. However, productivity has declined from these investments over […]

This report provides tech and business leaders in Europe with a checklist to avoid making the biggest mistakes and develop a solid framework for automation projects.

Read an interview with Rich Kroes, Vice President, Global Sustainability at Oracle about the circular cloud and sustainable technology.

Subscriptions link the value propositions of customer usage to outcomes. To achieve this business model, traditional product companies need to reinvent innovation cycles, product development approaches, sales and marketing tactics, and customer support functions. There are many obstacles to this transformation — but it’s doable. Three main observations when defining your strategy for driving subscription […]

As executive teams put more pressure on internal teams to speed digital transformation in 2021, how will software developers respond? Find out in our 2021 predictions for software development.

In the Forrester/InfoWorld Enterprise Architecture (EA) Awards competition, we look for the most dramatic stories of EA’s strategic leadership and concrete business impact. The winners of the 2020 Forrester/InfoWorld Enterprise Architecture Awards show the value of a close relationship with the business, a solid vision for enabling digital transformation, and effective governance practices — not […]

There’s been a ton of buzz and activity around my first report, “Mind The Cloud Skills Gap.” As such, when Shell presented at the IBM Think Digital event earlier this year about reskilling its staff, I was very keen to attend. The key takeaways from this session were: Shell Chief Data and Analytics Officer Frans […]

Businesses have never valued digital agility as much as they have during the COVID-19 pandemic. But how do you apply the lessons you’ve learned this year to your long-term plan? VP Ted Schadler provides insights.

Digital technology is enabling unprecedented connection between people, companies, and devices. Connecting them all lies at the hands of the developer, a role with increasing power in an organization. In the age of open banking, simply providing access to APIs, documentation, and a sandbox is not enough. Developer engagement builds long-term bridges between a firm […]