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		<title><![CDATA[Popping the buzzword bubble]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=3453]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Agility, Enterprise 2.0, cloud, blah, blah, blah... by Joe McKendrick]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:11:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Organisational Agility - How Business Can Survive and Thrive in Turbulent Times]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=971069]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Agility for agility's sake]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1642]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:51:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Strategic Agility Planning for Banks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=971905]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Business Analytics: The Perfect Fit for the Agile Enterprise]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1130887]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[City Administration Uses Virtualization Solution to Drive Agility, Boost Productivity]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=929205]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Building an 'Agile' Response to Change]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1007739]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Responding quickly to changing markets: Anticipate, Adapt, Excel]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=339573]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Impact of Work Force Agility on Business Performance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=352718]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Forrester - Assess Your Enterprise Agility]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1148981]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[HP's Opsware buy highlights burgeoning role of 'management']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2507]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:22:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MSDN Webcast: Protocols for Maximizing Agility (Level 200)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=384886]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Does SOA have a vanishing point?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=686]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ 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'...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:14:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Long-term SOA payback tough to predict]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=654]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ 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....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:29:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Survey: IT hasn't delivered agility, yet]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10536-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=21779&messageID=414111&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2006 13:49:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Survey: IT hasn't delivered agility, yet]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=635]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ 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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:01:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Crafting a Human Resource Strategy to Foster Organizational Agility: A Case Study]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=135361]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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