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Bernhard Schaffrik

Germany

Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

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  • 1 month ago | forrester.com | Bernhard Schaffrik

    The AI gold-rush continues into 2025 despite economic volatility. But this isn’t a race; the winner isn’t necessarily the first there. However, you do need to run the race to have a chance. In difficult times, especially for those in crisis, there is a temptation to shut down all innovation and sure up on the fundamental. Yes, these groups must narrow their mission to focus on critical capabilities – but you can’t shut down all forms of innovation. The risk is too great.

  • 1 month ago | forrester.com | Bernhard Schaffrik

    While we receive many client inquiries on best practices for innovation management, there have been four recurring categories of inquiries lately that dominate our client conversations:Clients want to validate their organizational innovation setups against best practices. While most of our clients are operating centralized innovation teams, their mandates vary from technology foresight and experimentation to innovation facilitation and delivery.

  • Sep 30, 2024 | forrester.com | Octavio Garcia Granados |Bernhard Schaffrik |Craig Le Clair

    Many of my recent client conversations have been on network APIs, also known as network open APIs. In particular, they want to discuss timelines, challenges, opportunities, use cases, and future market outlook. Similar to what I discussed in my previous blog about 5G network slicing, the reality is not as rosy as one might expect, once again due to the heavy dependency on software development communities outside the telecommunications industry’s reach. Why are people excited?

  • Sep 25, 2024 | forrester.com | Paul Ferron |Seth Marrs |Bernhard Schaffrik

    We are in the final two weeks before Forrester’s B2B Summit EMEA. If you haven’t registered yet, make this your action for the day. Trust me, you don’t want to miss this! Today’s blog highlights a couple of track sessions that illustrate the inspiring and practical nature of the research we will share. Embrace Ingenuity for Sustainable GrowthIngenuity is what it takes to reinvent our businesses for sustainable growth. B2B companies operate on outdated models to drive growth.

  • Sep 23, 2024 | forrester.com | Jinan Budge |Bernhard Schaffrik |Subhendu Pattnaik

    One of the three principles of High-performance IT (HPIT) is to build trust on a foundation of security, privacy and resilience. As a CIO, executing your strategy will be much easier if you unleash the talent of the person who plays an outsized role in building a trusted business: your Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

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