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Agility is a legitimate and measurable business goal. But how agile is your enterprise? Not sure? Perhaps you're not even sure where to start on the road to agility.
This Special Report shows you how to define, measure, financially evaluate and infuse agility into your IT efforts, including areas such as security, process management, information search and retrieval, and dealings with external service providers. This research will clarify agility, give you a framework for the future, and warn you of the roadblocks ahead. Now, go and be agile!  Read More
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Defining, Cultivating and Measuring Enterprise Agility
Agility is a legitimate and measurable business goal. However, the actual pursuit and proof of your efforts will be elusive if you do not have a solid definition, a comprehensive framework and a vision for how agility can alter the status quo.
Achieving Agility: Defining Agility in an IT Context
Agility, the ability of an organization to sense environmental change and to respond efficiently and effectively to it, is more than a buzzword. Properly understood, IT-enabled agility is an emerging management discipline, which will be practiced differently across an industry or an enterprise.
Achieving Agility: The View Through a Conceptual Framework
The concept of agility can be used both tactically and strategically if a consistent framework for measurement is established. Here, we examine such a framework and how it can be applied.
Achieving Agility: Measuring the Financial Implications of Agility
Agility -- the ability to sense, strategize, decide, communicate and act -- has never been more important, but how much agility is enough, and where in the company is it needed most? Let financial results be your guide.
Achieving Agility: Plan for Workforce Reconfiguration, Expect Resistance
As CIOs strive to inject agility into their organizations, many seek to improve the reconfigurability of the IT workforce. The implications of workforce reconfiguration, however, will provoke resistance. CIOs should use a change-management framework to identify and overcome that resistance.
Achieving Agility: Growth, Agility and High-Performance Workplace Strategies Are Intimately Linked
You'll never be able to cut costs or increase productivity enough to become truly agile. A high-performance workplace strategy calls for more focus on enhancing peoples' ability to do the nonroutine, to foster productive exploration, innovation, discovery and initial execution.
Evaluating the Agility-Enabling Abilities of External Service Providers
ESPs often position service-oriented architecture as a way of improving the business agility of your IT environment. Use Gartner's agility activity cycle to assess the technical and business agility of several ESPs' offerings.
Searching for Agility in IT Contracting
The push for increased IT agility will require future supply contracts to incorporate fewer restrictive clauses.
Achieving Agility: Take the Right Steps to Ensure Agility in Outsourcing Contracts
Outsourcing can hinder or enhance agility, depending on how contracts are structured. Use these best practices to ensure that all details are in place to support agility before signing an outsourcing contract.
Achieving Agility: Information Access Essential to Understanding Your Business
Sensing changes will happen before they do is of key strategic value to a company. Evolving information access capabilities will help enable such detection.
Achieving Information Architecture Agility
Systems must incorporate information architecture principles and models optimized for agility.
Overcoming Enterprise Information Silos
Commit the same level of discipline given to other vital resources.
Achieving Agility: Enabling Agility Across a Value Chain With Enterprise Information Management
As competition continues to increase, more enterprises recognize that their efforts to increase business agility rely more on trading partners than can be achieved alone. Managing information more effectively across the value chain increases agility as costs are reduced.
Achieving Agility: BPM Delivers Business Agility Through New Management Practices
Business process management is a discipline that enables business agility in three important ways. It allows faster and better-informed decisions, reduces the process revision cycle time, and promotes consensus for rapid adoption of changes.
Achieving Agility: Implement a BPP Model to Support Static and Dynamic Processes
Enabling agility in business processes will require users to assess their business application environments and weigh them against their need to manage static and dynamic business processes. The Business Process Platform model can help with this effort.
Achieving Agility: The Agile Power of Business Rules
Being rules-driven and being agile are not necessarily mutually exclusive goals. Explicit business rules contribute value in each of the five steps of the enterprise agility cycle, but the stakeholders deriving the benefits and the actual benefits vary from step to step.
Achieving Agility Through Communication-Enabled Business Processes
Business systems are difficult to integrate with communication systems and are usually managed separately. However, increased adoption of shared applications, standards and devices is changing this. Benefits include reduced latency, increased accuracy and improved flexibility.
Building Blocks for Agile Security Infrastructure
Security infrastructure, like other IT infrastructure, can be an inhibitor to change.
Achieving Agility: SOA Will Build Organizational Agility, but Watch the Hype
Service-oriented architecture, a cornerstone of organizational agility, simplifies access to more-granular business services and processes designed to aid competitive responsiveness. Not a replacement for existing technologies, it is rather a cost-effective augmentation of current capabilities.
Achieving Agility: The Data Center Is the Foundation
For an enterprise to be agile, its data center must be agile, too. But this is rarely the case. Agility improvements should be made a measurable part of infrastructure strategies to ensure they meet business requirements.
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