Enterprise Agility: Enterprise Agility in the new era

Enterprise Agility suggests good practices to improve the overall health of the company, and also suggests a practical framework for creating a plan for enhancing agility.About This Book* Shows the significance of Enterprise Agility, and its importance in modern enterprise.* Teaches how to build technology partnerships, and how to enable Partners to deliver the Agile way* Illustrates the Transformation plan, which details the “Why”, “What”, and “How” of the journey to enhance AgilityWho This Book Is ForEnterprise Agility will be most useful for anyone having the ability to influence outcomes in an enterprise that aspires toward improving agility. The most common roles will be: Chief Executive Officer, Chief Information Officer, People/Human Resource Director, Information Technology Director, Head of Change Program, Head of Transformation, or Agile Coach/Consultant.What You Will Learn* Understand the meaning and significance of Enterprise Agility, and the importance of distinguishing it from Agile* Learn about the characteristics of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS), and how to model the Enterprise and Leadership Behaviors on CAS characteristics to enhance Agility* Understand what an Agile Mindset is.* Learn specific measures that can be implemented to unlock and enhance Agility in a 21st Century Enterprise* Understand the advantages and challenges of having Distributed Teams, and learn Agile ways of working to alleviate these challengesIn DetailThe biggest challenge Enterprises are facing today is dealing with fast paced change in all spheres of business. Ever since the advent of management, Enterprises have been modelled as mechanistic or non-living systems. Mechanistic systems are designed to deliver predictability, stability and repetitiveness. However, Enterprises which remain mechanistic are struggling to deal with complexity arising out of the extent and pace of the disruptive change in the business environment.Agility is a fundamental shift in thinking about how Enterprises work to effectively deal with disruptive change in the business environment. The core belief underlying Agility is that Enterprises are Open/Living Systems. These living systems, also known as Complex Adaptive Systems, are ideally suited to deal with change very effectively.Agility is to Enterprises what health is to human beings. There are some generic principles about good health and at the same time, the definition of good health is very specific to each individual. Enterprise Agility takes a similar approach regarding Agility, it suggests good practices to improve the overall health of the “body”, and the health of its various “organs” – People, Process, Governance, and so on. The book also suggests a practical framework for creating a plan for enhancing agility.