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For Earth Day 2025, Focus On The Threefer Of Sustainability Efforts: Meet Sustainability Goals, Achieve Better Financial Results, And Reach Business Strategy Goals

Amy DeMartine 3 days ago
This past year, I was describing what a “twofer” was to my colleague Jinan Budge in Australia. I casually dropped this term for getting two things for the price of one during a conversation. In addition to talking about how weird lingo can be, it also led to me proposing that what we were talking […]
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Hannover Messe 2025: Mind The Reality Gap

Paul Miller April 9, 2025
Forrester analysts Paul Miller and Pascal Matzke share their thoughts after visiting the 2025 Hannover Messe industrial automation trade fair.
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Microgrids And Data Centers: A Sustainable Power Duo

Alvin Nguyen March 17, 2025
Tech leaders are under more pressure to improve energy efficiency. Discover how microgrids are revolutionizing data centers to meet AI’s growing demands and sustainability goals.
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Supercharge The IT Circular Economy With The CARFAX Approach

Alvin Nguyen January 31, 2025
The Challenge With The Circular Economy In 2025, Forrester predicted that more than a third of Global Fortune 100 firms will commit to circular economy goals. We recommended that, this year, enterprise leaders perform infrastructure lifecycle assessments to understand the environmental impact of their choices. Further for manufacturing, Forrester’s report, Embrace The Circular Economy To […]
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Navigating Economic Waters: The New US Administration’s Spending Scenarios And Global Impact

Michael O'Grady January 24, 2025
With a new US administration coming in, there is always economic uncertainty. Learn some of the factors that could be strong influencers of future US economic growth and how they could impact other global markets.
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The Enterprise Architecture Tool Market Starts 2025 With A Notable Merger

Stéphane Vanrechem January 10, 2025
In a Forrester landscape report published in May 2024, we predicted that M&A activity would continue to change and disrupt the enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) market. This trend started in 2023, continued throughout 2024, and now, amazingly, as we enter 2025, the market has reached a further peak.
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The Future Of Mobility Will Be Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric — And More

Paul Miller January 8, 2025
The automotive sector’s vision of cars that are connected, autonomous, shared, and electric (CASE) becomes more interesting when it’s applied to the entire mobility ecosystem, which is what we’re doing at Forrester.
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Environmental Sustainability: Even If You Change The Route, Keep The Destination

Paul Miller December 16, 2024
There’s a school of thought that writes most sustainability efforts off as annoying virtue signaling: Consumers with time and disposable income choose to pay a green premium for products that make them feel good, and companies plant trees and recycle coffee cups to make those customers like them. As costs rise, belts tighten, and we […]
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A Digital Product Passport Needs More Standardization And Fewer Standards

Paul Miller November 18, 2024
The Digital Product Passport promises significant benefits for sustainability, auditability, and consumer information, but a lack of agreement on standards makes it difficult to realise this promise ahead of European deadlines in 2027.
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Predictions 2025: Environmental Sustainability Drivers Shift From Regulation To Efficiency And Savings

Abhijit Sunil October 24, 2024
While regulatory compliance will remain a driver for sustainability efforts, in 2025, sustainability teams will need to change their focus to show savings. Find out more in our 2025 environmental sustainability predictions.
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Assessing AI’s Impact On The Environment

What It Means October 3, 2024
The rapid growth of AI will have both positive and negative impacts on the environment. In this episode, Vice President and Principal Analyst Thomas Husson delves into both AI’s environmental downsides and its potential to help solve the climate crisis.
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Forrester’s Green Consumer Segmentation For 2025

Thomas Husson September 27, 2024
There is no single green or sustainable consumer. Values and attitudes vary greatly within the same age group or across different countries. Learn about Forrester’s recently updated green segmentation for 2025 in this preview of a new report.
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How Accurate Were Our Predictions For 2024?

Sharyn Leaver September 26, 2024
As we prepare to launch our 2025 predictions, we look back on some of the ones we made a year ago. Find out how we did, and get a first peek at what our forthcoming predictions will cover.
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AI And The Green Market Revolution Will Intertwine

Thomas Husson September 2, 2024
While AI has huge potential to mitigate the environmental crisis, the technology that powers AI has a huge impact on climate change and water resources. Learn how the futures of AI and the green market revolution are intimately linked and how they will both become invisibly embedded into our daily lives.
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Learnings From The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization Solutions, Q3 2024

Tracy Woo July 25, 2024
At long last, The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization [CCMO] Solutions, Q3 2024 is published! This process is incredibly long and thorough. We go through hours-long briefings and customer calls and perform multiple iterations on scoring; the vendors go through the same. They put in many hours setting up customer references, product demonstrations, […]
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What You Should Look For From ESG Data And Analytics Providers

Aurelie L'Hostis July 10, 2024
The Forrester Wave™: ESG Data And Analytics Providers, Q3 2024, reveals the 12 providers that matter most and how they stack up.
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The Circular Economy Is Brought To You By The Letter R

Paul Miller July 4, 2024
Learn how the five Rs can help manufacturers participate in the circular economy: reduce, reuse, repair, refurbish, and recycle.
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Announcing The Enterprise Architecture Management Suites Landscape, Q2 2024

Stéphane Vanrechem May 24, 2024
Enterprise Architecture Management Suites Are An Architect’s Ally Enterprise architecture management suites (EAMSes) are fundamental to running a successful architecture practice. EAMS tools are being used to help architecture teams manage architecture risk, reduce cost, and support organizations in proactively managing their technical debt. AI use cases are flourishing in this market, freeing up architects’ […]
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With Selipsky Out, What’s Next For AWS?

Lee Sustar May 15, 2024
AWS announced this week that Adam Selipsky will depart as CEO and Matt Garman, AWS senior VP of sales and marketing, would replace him in June. Find out what the implications of this move could be at a critical time for AWS and the broader cloud market overall.
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GreenOps, FinOps, And The Sustainable Cloud

Dario Maisto May 10, 2024
Rising consumer pressure and new regulatory reporting requirements have opened the door to a new approach: GreenOps, or the practice of minimizing a cloud environment’s carbon footprint through the efficient use of cloud resources. Learn more about GreenOps in this post.
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