the organizational capability to be flexible, responsive, adaptive, and show initiative in times of change and uncertainty. Agility has origins in manufacturing and has been...
Agility is an issue that is becoming more and more prominent in businesses across industries. While it is a common goal, its meaning can be somewhat ambiguous. Depending on the context, agility can mean different things to different organizational units. But one common thread persists: the accelerating speed of change....
In the hyper competitive environment that markets are today, the shelf life of any source of competitive advantage has dramatically reduced. Only those companies that constantly innovate all facets of business in congruence with their fast evolving environment can hope to remain ahead. While many companies have recognized this need...
The pressure is on for IT to deliver applications that can change on a dime - evolving as quickly as the business evolves even in the face of uncertain requirements. To address these challenges, new programming models - such as extreme programming and iterative development - have emerged. The primary...
This paper examines a business and IS/IT initiative at Volvo that involves managing the development and implementation of an agile aftermarket supply chain. The case is based on Volvo's global initiative to create a platform, Web services, and a Web portal for selling spare parts over the Internet. Creating and...
Competent businesses are adept at hiring and firing workers. Great businesses however are skilled at developing and deploying talent in ways that continuously grow their experience, stretch their abilities and enable their achievements. Creating work environments that promote people agility across jobs and organizational boundaries is the next imperative for...
The world may not literally be flat, but it's smaller than ever thanks to a convergence of social, business and technological trends, e.g., inexpensive telecommunications, global trade, open standards, internet technologies. Now a whole new category of business communications applications and services promises to compress the world even further, connecting...
With companies worldwide under pressure to develop greater 'business agility', technology vendors and analysts are praising the benefits of the 'service oriented enterprise' business processes broken down into manageable and measurable components, supported by information technology, and treated as services by internal and external users. Creating an agile IT framework...
Business analysts and technology vendors alike are heralding the arrival of the next phase of evolution in business computing. It is being fueled by a new generation of IT systems, business process outsourcing options and industry standards. This new phase goes by many names, including business process fusion, real-time enterprise,...
One management process and organizational system that is of important concern in knowledge management is agility. The development of Information Communication Technology ICT in the era of globalization and competitive business environment indicates that agile organizations are able to better sustain in a competitive and volatile industry. By means of...
This white paper gives an overview of the dash boarding and score carding capabilities of SAS Strategic Performance Management. The paper describes the progression from focus to alignment to agility that these capabilities facilitate using advanced data access, alerts and traffic lighting, and dynamic diagramming functions. It also informs about...
Agility may soon overtake efficiency in terms of its importance to businesses and government. Business process outsourcing BPO is one of the keys to maintaining agility, but BPO must mature into transformational and business-utility relationships. This white paper describes how the most innovative outsourcing approaches will provide visibility into the...
The casual business observer might conclude that after a decade devoted to re-engineering, restructuring and realigning, CEOs must have achieved their ideal business models. But, a great deal of painful work lies ahead. The ultimate goal is an agile organization with the flexibility to quickly read and heed shifting competitive...
Well-planned Information Technology IT Infrastructure services are critical for companies pursuing strategic agility. The traditional bricks-and-mortar organisation and the virtual organisation cannot be separated as easily as they have in the past. Companies are organising themselves both physically and virtually, from their Customers to their Supply Chains. In the process...
"This article look at how subtle but distinct differences between what leaders are saying about the initiative and what they are actually doing can hinder organizational agility, performance and productivity. When there is misalignment between what is "said" and what is "done" in an organization, employees will be likely to...
In this cutthroat, weakness-revealing economy, companies can no longer afford to ignore the problem of managerial procrastination, so the case for agility is obvious. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the article suggests that line managers represent the basic building blocks of agility and lists three emerging prerequisites for corporate agility. It...
Market change is relentless: ever-higher customer expectations, shrinking product life cycles, and new rivals on the scene all accelerate the pace. But small businesses and midsize companies have one distinct advantage over larger competitors: agility. With fewer organizational layers and less-rigid processes, smaller businesses can act much faster than the...
IN COMPETITIVE sports, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Athletes become better at what they do by optimizing their sport-specific movements, and a more coordinated and efficient movement pattern leads directly to increased success in competition. Meanwhile, through their sport-specific workouts, athletes add muscle in all...
AgilePath Corporation, the industry'sleading service-oriented architecture SOA consulting firm, todayannounced a Web site promotion for free copies of AgilePath CEO's new SOAbook -- "SOA Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise" (2008),published by John Wiley & Sons. This is the industry's first bookdedicated to enterprise SOA governance, and it reflects...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today introduced chipset control software based on PMC-Sierra Inc.'s multiband WiZIRD RFICs. The software -- included with the Agilent One-Box Wireless Networking Test Set for WiMAX devices -- is an extremely fast, accurate and stable measurement solution that enables highly optimized WiMAX...
Next Generation Business Process Management BPM Capabilities Enable Faster Innovation and Continuous Process Improvement SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Cordys, a global leader in next generation Business Process Management BPM, today announced version 4 of the Cordys Business Operations Platform BOP enabling organizations to design, implement, monitor and continuously...
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