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Popping the buzzword bubble

Agility, Enterprise 2.0, cloud, blah, blah, blah... by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Buzzword, Enterprise 2.0, Agility, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-11-21

Organisational Agility - How Business Can Survive and Thrive in Turbulent Times

A recent Economist Intelligence Unit EIU survey found that nearly 90 percent of global executives believe that organizational agility is critical for global business success. Yet, more than 27 percent indicated that their organizations are at a competitive disadvantage because they aren't agile enough to anticipate fundamental marketplace shifts. The...

Tags: Survey, EMC Corp., Agility, Storage, Marketing Research, Hardware, Marketing

Webcasts 2009-04-16

Agility for agility's sake

We talk a lot about agility. Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder commends the IT world for it's own "agility" in being able to quickly transition between paradigms: by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Agility, Geek & Poke, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Strategic Agility Planning for Banks

Today, the banking industry needs greater agility to address challenges such as vulnerability to economic cycle vagaries, transient customer loyalties, increasing regulatory pressures, and heightened expectations from other stakeholders. Another agility driver is a need to harness new opportunities such as Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), and new product segments. To...

Tags: Bank, M&A, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Agility, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Services, Investment, Finance

White papers 2009-01-15

Business Analytics: The Perfect Fit for the Agile Enterprise

Agility is more than responsiveness. It's the ability to recognize all the opportunities facing the organization and adopt innovative strategies to take advantage of them. To achieve this level of agility, organizations around the world are turning to business analytics solutions that integrate both business intelligence and business performance management....

Tags: Business Analytics, Agility

White papers 2009-01-01

City Administration Uses Virtualization Solution to Drive Agility, Boost Productivity

Comune di Roma is the largest municipality in Italy and the capital city. Comune di Roma wanted to consolidate servers for its new data center and centralize a managed test environment to efficiently deploy new software. After deploying Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, IT staff will be able to virtualize servers...

Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Administration, Agility, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Case studies 2008-11-12

Building an 'Agile' Response to Change

Agility is the ability of an organisation in whole, or in part as required, to transform itself competently in order to manage or exploit a new situation. Systemic agility is achieved by preparing people culturally for change and structuring flexibility for change into the processes, systems and infrastructure that they...

Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Agility, Business Strategy, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-10-28

Responding quickly to changing markets: Anticipate, Adapt, Excel

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...

Tags: SAP AG, Agility, Microsoft Excel, Product Marketing, Marketing Research, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Marketing

White papers 2007-12-12

The Impact of Work Force Agility on Business Performance

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....

Tags: Performance, Agility, SkillSoft, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management

White papers 2007-11-16

Forrester - Assess Your Enterprise Agility

Firms and government organizations are constantly buffeted by changes in their business environment — from changing customer tastes to economic changes affecting raw material prices to government regulations that make hitherto smart business strategies irrelevant. Firms must respond well to these changes to survive and thrive. While firms have used...

Tags: Change, Agility, Forrester Research Inc., Business Strategy

White papers 2007-11-12

HP's Opsware buy highlights burgeoning role of 'management'

I'm sitting at an engaging Open Group conference on SOA and its deep impact across IT and enterprises. A common theme, not surprisingly, is the issue of control ... some of the biggest fears about SOA is that it may be too good, too inclusive -- and may consequently spin...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Opsware Inc., SOA, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-07-23

MSDN Webcast: Protocols for Maximizing Agility (Level 200)

Agility is the power of moving with speed and ease, a behavioral nimbleness arising from the ability to think and draw conclusions quickly. This webcast shows how increased agility can be achieved with any group by using a small set of interpersonal protocols, called "The Core Protocols" by McCarthy Technologies....

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Agility

Webcasts 2007-01-08

Does SOA have a vanishing point?

There was a time when the word 'dot' had positive connotations to it. Dot was revolutionary, turning the world upside down, wiping out intermediaries, turning business into seamless electronic transactions across the great global Internet. Sun prided itself on being the 'dot in dot-com.' Of course, more recently, 'dot'...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2006-08-18

Long-term SOA payback tough to predict

Short-term, measuring SOA payback is relatively straightforward. A company saves x amount of dollars by not having to reinvent a service for a new application. But the big payback happens gradually, over the years, through business gains and agility. Capturing this kind of data is, well, not so straightforward....

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2006-07-04

Survey: IT hasn't delivered agility, yet

Survey: IT hasn't delivered agility, yetGood ExecsSome pretty amazing execs. They know about SOA and that they need it. I'm impressed. Now if they could only figure out email.Business Agility needs IT to understand how business actually worksSo executives think "agility" will emerge from SOA and how do...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Strategy, Business process automation, Operational planning, Enterprise software, information technology, agility, survey

Discussion threads 2006-06-06

Survey: IT hasn't delivered agility, yet

In my previous post, I shared the observations of Chris Koch, who said that business process management and SOA come from two different sides of the enterprise fence, and don't always see eye to eye. In addition, Koch is of the opinion that most advances in business agility in...

Tags: agility, information technology, SOA

Blog posts 2006-06-05

Crafting a Human Resource Strategy to Foster Organizational Agility: A Case Study

A decade ago, the CEO of Albert Einstein Healthcare Network AEHN, anticipating a tumultuous and largely unpredictable period in its industry, undertook to convert this organization from one that was basically stable and complacent to one that was agile, "nimble, and change-hardy". This case study briefly addresses AEHN's approaches to...

Tags: Cornell University, Agility, Organizational Structure, Human Resources

Case studies

Additional Resources

ZapThink explores the four stages of SOA governance that lead to business agility

By formalizing its approach to governance by following SOA best practices at the EA level, an organization can leverage resources in a more agile manner. by Dana Gardner

Tags: ZapThink LLC, SOA, SOA Governance, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-11-16

'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary

This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker's birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. The paper version is a keeper. Drucker's...

Tags: Performance, Knowledge, Drucker, John Hagel, Knowledge Stock, Lloyd, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Inflict Training Lite for iPhone 1.2 (Mobile)

Inflict Training Lite for iPhone delivers sharp, crisp floating imagery in 3-dimensional layering. The workouts are progressive each building on the last and are a challenging mixture of strength, endurance, and cross-training exercises designed to train your whole body. Exercises range from core to linear and body building, plyometric training,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Workout, Training, Inflict Training, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-11-06