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Drive Growth Through Trusted AI Insights

Delivering AI-powered insights that drive business growth requires a comprehensive strategy that aligns data, technology, and business leaders. To be successful, these leaders must find ways to expand their organizational influence, build trust in their work, and enable the business to make better decisions.

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Challenges You Face

Today’s data, AI, and analytics leaders often struggle to drive significant business impact because their role and function may not be clearly defined, limiting their influence across their organization. Forrester can help address these and other significant challenges, including:

  • Overcoming organizational silos to align business units and functions around data and AI.
  • Implementing data governance effectively.
  • Defining career development tracks to retain skilled data, AI, and analytics professionals.
  • Balancing emerging technology and innovation with practical goals and implementation.
  • Clearly defining your role and responsibilities to avoid overlap with other positions.

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Forrester empowers data, AI, and analytics leaders to build and implement strategies that will scale data and AI efforts and align your organization around a data-driven culture.

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Forrester helps data, AI, and analytics leaders and their teams deliver consistent data strategies that align to business goals while embracing the future of data and AI with clarity and confidence.

Create Business Value From Trusted Data And AI

Forrester Decisions for Data, AI & Analytics helps enterprise data and technology leaders create business value from trusted data, build the foundation to scale AI, and cultivate a data-driven culture with urgency.

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In Their Words: Why Executives Choose Forrester

Julie Meringer 2 days ago
Forrester has helped guide business leaders through every major technology shift of the past four decades — and AI is no exception. Learn how executives move faster, de-risk decisions, and win and serve clients better through our AI research and advice.
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Is AI Visibility Your 2026 Imperative? Learn How To Achieve It At B2B Summit

John Buten 3 days ago
As B2B buyer research shifts to AI-powered answer engines, a new "visibility vacuum" is emerging. At B2B Summit North America, you'll learn how to overcome it.
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NVIDIA GTC 2026: Building The AI Value Chain

Naveen Chhabra 3 days ago
At NVIDIA GTC 2026, the most consequential signal was not another leap in compute performance but how intentionally NVIDIA is redefining AI as end‑to‑end infrastructure spanning systems, software, data, and the physical world. The event underscored a longer‑term strategy focused on owning how AI is built, operated, and scaled, not just what runs fastest.
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Why IBM Paid $11B For Real-Time AI, Not Kafka

Mike Gualtieri 3 days ago
IBM just closed its $11 billion acquisition of Confluent on March 17, 2026, acquiring the data streaming platform that more than 6,500 enterprises — including 40% of the Fortune 500 — rely on to power real-time operations. Confluent was also named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025. The deal could […]
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Geopolitical Volatility Has Become A Technology Leadership Test

Stephanie Balaouras 4 days ago
Geopolitical volatility is testing and redefining technology leadership, demanding sharper trade-offs, stronger resilience, and faster decisions from CIOs and CISOs. Read guidance from our new research to help navigate these challenges.
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Your Employees Aren’t Ready For AI — And It’s A Problem

J.P. Gownder 5 days ago
Forrester’s AIQ Reveals Severe Gaps In Employee Readiness For AI Employers aren’t successfully equipping their employees with the understanding, skills, and ethics to succeed in a world of AI. And it’s becoming a bottleneck that inhibits productivity and return on investment. We measure this with AIQ, Forrester’s artificial intelligence quotient, and we’ve got alarming new […]
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