How Resilient Is Your Strategy?
Take The Volatility Readiness Quiz
Take this 2-minute quiz to explore how your organization compares with leading firms in navigating today’s volatile landscape. Based on insights from Forrester’s report “How To Thrive Through Volatility,” we’ll share how top performers are adapting — and invite you to reflect on your own readiness. Complete the quiz to access the full report.
Volatility Demands Strategy, Not Shortcuts
“Volatility in 2025 includes massive global outages, cyberthreats, new tariffs, trade wars, divided and impatient customers — and, of course, economic concerns.”
“One obvious, but often misguided, step to deal with the chaos: cost cutting. Reactive, brute-force, unilateral budget cuts typically hurt more than they help, particularly in a volatile business environment.”
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How is your organization preparing for volatility? (Select all that apply.)
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Strategies To Optimize Technology Cost
A more strategic approach is required — particularly when it comes to technology investments/optimizing technology cost. Examples of levers that organizations can use to develop technology cost optimization scenarios include:
- Eliminating redundant tools. Streamline the tech stack and review overlapping software and platforms.
- Optimizing cloud costs. Identify unused, untagged, ownerless, unattached, and poorly fitted cloud instances.
- Prioritizing modernization. Focus on the most important initiatives.
- Renegotiating contracts. Reduce large contracts to gain relief via discounts, consolidation, or lower commitments.
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How is your organization prioritizing technology cost optimization? (Select all that apply.)
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Tech Savings Build Resilience — AI Enables Adaptation
While tech cost optimization builds resilience, real adaptability starts with empowering people — and that’s where AI makes a difference.“It is critical in periods of volatility to keep employees apprised of how the company is measurably responding to immediate business threats in their control while proactively adjusting to more likely long-term changes. … [Cultivate] a culture of continuous learning, enabling teams to adapt quickly as new technologies such as AI — and new business challenges — emerge.”
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How is your organization currently using or planning to use generative AI (genAI) to enhance employee productivity and satisfaction? (Select all that apply.)
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