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Who should lead your firm’s digital transformation? CEO? CIO? CMO? Firms turn to a variety of executives to lead their digital charge, but form follows function, and functional leaders often default to a functional (read, siloed or dare I say, m…
In my previous blog post, I described how Enterprise Studio supports the Business Model Canvas, Ecosystem maps, Balanced Scorecards including SWOT, PESTEL and Five Forces analysis, and heatmaps to highlight salient information for your orga…
Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Thomas Husson discusses the current state of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) and when and how we’ll see these technologies scale. Featuring: Thomas Husson, Vice President, Principal Analyst…
Amazon recently launched a new and unique type of store, after beta testing it for the better part of a year. The store, dubbed Amazon Go, promises consumers no checkout lines: Everything you grab from the shelves is tracked and charged to your Amazon …
In beautiful, sunny San Diego, California, The Open Group hosted its latest event January 29 – February 1 at the iconic US Grant Hotel in the lively Gaslamp District. The theme was ‘The Role of Reference Architectures’. We welcomed over 200 attendees from 17 countries – a great first event of the year!
In a major new research report, The Technology-Augmented Employee, I take on a problem that’s vexing CIOs and government leaders alike. In aggregate, US companies face a productivity paradox: Despite billions of dollars invested in technology, gr…
You are able to watch a presentation by Dave Snowden regarding complexity and how not to manage complexity. Complexity is a core concept in Enterprise Architecture and Coherency Management, and these concepts are to be managed well in order to achieve coherence. Advertisements
Culture remains the No. 1 barrier to successful digital transformation. Every time we survey business executives about digital transformation, they tell us that their organizational culture is a problem. After years of looking at data and interviewing …
As enterprises strive to stay on a path of digital evolution, the consulting and systems integration marketplace is rapidly transforming as well to deliver a new generation of digital services. Forrester data shows that services buyers are focused on t…
That is the question! If you’re the CEO of your business, or maybe the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) responsible for digital business strategy, it’s the central question you need to be asking of your leadership team. A platform business can t…
Question: Should you build a platform business? Answer: Maybe. Let’s go beyond the ecosystem hype and figure this thing out together. But first, what is a platform business? I think of it as a company that exposes its capabilities in ways that cu…
From twenty years of trying, I know this about covering Amazon: It’s tricky. Our report process can take months during which we comb through our extensive Technographics data to find patterns or we interview executives. Not to mention the time it…