The Case For An Open Sourcing Strategy

In today's volatile environment, disciplined risk management and adaptive change leadership are essential for technology leaders. The constant volatility has upended carefully crafted tech strategies, budgets, and priorities, leaving technology leaders feeling unsure and overwhelmed. However, there is a way to navigate the chaos, regain control, and lead people through difficult times. This session will explore how to detect and decide which risks to take in pursuit of strategic goals, using the Three Es framework to identify risks within the enterprise, ecosystem, and external environment. Next, we’ll cover specific levers to optimize IT investments helping you to rationalize portfolios and identify quick wins to cut costs and prioritization for complex long-term initiatives. Join us to gain insights on creating a resilient, secure, and future-ready IT infrastructure that thrives in uncertainty. Key takeaways: Learn how to identify and manage risks across your enterprise, ecosystem, and external environment using the Three Es framework. Discover strategies to streamline your tech stack, reduce costs, and enhance performance through portfolio rationalization and automation.Understand how to balance long-term strategies with the ability to adapt to rapid changes, focusing on both processes and people.Gain insights on building a secure, AI-ready, and future-proof IT infrastructure that can thrive in times of uncertaintyTarget audience level: beginner and intermediate

Lauren Nelson

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Mark Moccia

 

Getting the most from generative AI (genAI) capabilities within go-to-market (GTM) teams requires broad capture of buyer interactions. This raises questions around how to capture data while staying compliant with privacy regulations like General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). In this webinar, experts responsible for ensuring this compliance for their respective companies discuss the current interaction capture compliance landscape and how they capture interactions while also ensuring that the companies using their solution are compliant.Key takeaways: Review current interaction capture compliance regulations.Talk through how to capture buyer interactions while also staying compliant.Target audience level: advanced

Seth Marrs

 

In this webinar we will look at the state of IT sustainability survey Forrester conducted at the end of 2024 looking at the buyer and spending behavior for sustainability initiatives for 2025. We will take a closer look at the most impactful initiatives on sustainability enterprise leaders told us they undertook in the past year how investments will look like for 2025 the key capabilities for sustainability management software solutions that enterprise leaders sort and the services capabilities that were most asked for in the market.Key takeaways: Buyer trends for sustainability management softwareServices partnerships enterprises seekMost impactful IT decarbonization efforts by organizationsTarget audience level: all levels

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Abhijit Sunil

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Diane Deng

,  Jan Sythoff  

Changing business buyer behavior is making traditional go-to-market processes obsolete and turbulent global markets, geopolitical and social upheaval, and technology disruption are upending carefully crafted strategies, budgets, and priorities. It’s critical for B2B leaders to go beyond reactivity to prioritize stable market segments, reduce operational costs, and continuously monitor buyer and customer behaviors. While some lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic may be of use, every crisis has its own context. Today’s conditions represent a poly-crisis that also requires proactive scenario and contingency planning, a new pace for decision-making, and compliance vigilance. Take these actions and you won’t just overcome the chaos – you'll thrive within it. Key takeaways: Learn how to ruthlessly prioritize target market segments.Identify ways to cut duplicative technologies and nonstrategic operational costs.Understand why continuous customer insights strengthen resilience.Leverage scenario planning to keep one step ahead.Change the pace of decision-making and delegate more to frontline leaders.Keep data compliance requirements front and center Target audience level: beginner and intermediate

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Matthew Selheimer

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Katie Fabiszak

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Rick Bradberry

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Katie Linford

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Craig Moore

 

So far, 2025 is proving to be a challenging and volatile time, especially for security and risk professionals. Charged with protecting the enterprise, security leaders can’t take a backseat to facing and taking charge of volatility. In this webinar, analysts from Forrester’s security and risk team will discuss some immediate actions you can take to help your enterprise navigate the current chaos and improve your organization’s security posture Key takeaways: Learn ways to optimize current security spending.Understand the broader enterprise risks facing all organizations in 2025.Learn how to improve your organization's approach to enterprise risk management to address these risksDiscover how having a structured approach to change management can optimize business performance. Target audience level: beginner and intermediate

Merritt Maxim

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Jeff Pollard

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Alla Valente

 

As we move further into 2025, the security landscape continues to evolve in parallel with the uncertainty unfolding globally. Our latest report, Top Recommendations For Your Security Program, 2025, provides timely guidance for security leaders as they navigate another precarious year for their roles, programs, and organizations. Join us in this webinar to go over highlights from our 2025 recommendations and hear directly from the analysts making these calls.Key takeaways: Learn the most important recommendations for your security strategy in 2025 and our rationale behind them.Leverage our research and insights to guide your security program strategy.Understand how to prioritize changes in areas including security platforms, privacy and data protection, critical infrastructure, emerging tech, and security leadership in the coming year.Target audience level: intermediate

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Jess Burn

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Jeff Pollard

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Heidi Shey

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Enza Iannopollo

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Paddy Harrington

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Allie Mellen

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Cody Scott