Technology Managers Forum will be happy to guide vendors in choosing a relevant topic and creating a valid methodology for a white paper.

In the past, Technology Managers Forum has produced such respected white papers as "The Real Cost of Client/Server" and "The Real Cost of the Internet" with sponsors such as Computerworld, Bay Networks, and Digital Equipment Corp.

Costs of sponsoring a white paper vary depending on the services requested. Please contact executive director Priscilla Tate at 212-787-1122 or by email at ptate@techforum.com for prices and other information.

Based on your needs, Technology Managers Forum will be pleased to provide any or all of the following services:

• Develop Goals: We will form a committee that is a combination of IT managers (end-users) and sponsors that formulates the goals and objectives of your research. We can also form a taskforce of IT managers whose responsibility will be to pretest the survey, critique and improve the questions and the range of appropriate responses. We determine what information we need to ask for, how we might analyze the results, and develop questions and statements that will meet your research objectives.
• Develop and Test the Questionnaire: We will write a survey and test the questionnaire for timing, word-smithing and logic.
• Field the Questionnaire: When we have a survey that has survived the taskforce review, we post it online to a predetermined audience (potentially drawn from the membership of Technology Managers Forum) that is a credible sample that will carry weight with the press and market research analysts. We may suggest you offer an incentive to those who complete the survey, in order to ensure a good response rate.
• Write and Publish the Results: We publish the results of the questions, with charts, and write an executive summary. There may be an online version of the results, and/ or a CD or printed version. Because we are a professional association and not just a research organization, we can add information to our summary that may attempt to answer some of the questions the survey raises.