
Ted Schadler
Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
Coauthor of #MobileMindShift, Forrester VP & Principal Analyst. Focused these days on platform business, digital transformation, and the future of services.
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1 week ago |
forrester.com | Ted Schadler
At the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last week, MIT Nobel Prize winning economist, Daron Acemoglu, painted it black and white. He said, technology can take two paths. Path one is using technology to automate tasks that people once did. We’ve been doing that for centuries. Silicon Valley loves it. Business managers love it. Take out cost by replacing people with machines. It’s inevitable. But no company ever saved their way into the history books.
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1 week ago |
cdotrends.com | Ted Schadler
I passed a barefoot man strolling down a sidewalk on a chilly day in May. His hair was short. He was clean-shaven, wearing a multicolored blanket hoody. He exuded serenity as he grounded himself in the concrete beneath his feet, granting his chi permission to exchange greetings with the earth. Through that lens, every day, all 8 billion of us could be grounding (also known as “earthing” by believers — all I know is that it feels good in the summertime).
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1 week ago |
forrester.com | Ted Schadler
By Forrester ResearchIBM Think 2025 wasn’t just a showcase—it was a signal. The company is aligning its portfolio for the AI-first era. For CIOs, IBM’s message is clear: the future of enterprise IT is hybrid, intelligent, and orchestrated—and IBM wants to lead the way. Okay, so what did we really think? AI and hybrid cloud take center stage. IBM reinforced its commitment to hybrid cloud and AI, highlighting the synergy between the two.
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2 weeks ago |
forrester.com | Ted Schadler
I passed a barefoot man strolling a sidewalk on a chilly day in May. His hair was short. He was clean shaven, wearing a multi-colored blanket hoody. He exuded serenity as he grounded himself in the concrete beneath his feet, granting his chi permission to exchange greetings with the earth. Through that lens, every day, all 8 billion of us could be grounding (also known as earthing by believers — all I know is that it feels good in the summertime).
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1 month ago |
forrester.com | Ted Schadler
Thanks to my colleagues Hannah Murphy and Hayden Weatherall for this research foundation.
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