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Enterprise Agility: Being Agile In a Changing World
by 作者: Sunil Mundra
ISBN-10 书号: 1788990641
ISBN-13 书号: 9781788990646
Publisher Finelybook 出版日期: 2018-06-29
Pages: 490
Book Description
The biggest challenge enterprises face today is dealing with fast-paced change in all spheres of business. Enterprise Agility shows how an enterprise can address this challenge head on and thrive in the dynamic environment. Avoiding the mechanistic construction of existing enterprises that focus on predictability and certainty,Enterprise Agility delivers practical advice for responding and adapting to the scale and accelerating pace of disruptive change in the business environment.
Agility is a fundamental shift in thinking about how enterprises work to effectively deal with disruptive changes in the business environment. The core belief underlying agility is that enterprises are open and living systems. These living systems,also known as complex adaptive systems (CAS),are ideally suited to deal with change very effectively.
Agility is to enterprises what health is to humans. There are some foundational principles that can be broadly applied,but the definition of healthy is very specific to each individual. Enterprise Agility takes a similar approach with regard to agility: it suggests foundational practices to improve the overall health of the body—culture,mindset,and leadership—and the health of its various organs: people,process,governance,structure,technology,and customers. The book also suggests a practical framework to create a plan to enhance agility.
Contents
1: FAST-PACED CHANGE – THREAT OR OPPORTUNITY?
2: FROM AGILE TO AGILITY
3: THE ENTERPRISE AS A LIVING SYSTEM
4: MINDSET AND CULTURE
5: LEADERSHIP
6: ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
7: PROCESS
8: PEOPLE
9: TECHNOLOGY
10: GOVERNANCE
11: CUSTOMER
12: DISTRIBUTED TEAMS
13: TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
14: FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION
15: FACILITATING CHANGE
What you will learn
Drive agility-oriented change across the enterprise
Understand why agility matters (more than ever) to modern enterprises
Adopt and influence an Agile mindset in your teams and in your organization
Understand the concept of a CAS and how to model enterprise and leadership behaviors on CAS characteristics to enhance enterprise agility
Understand and convey the differences between Agile and true enterprise agility
Create an enterprise-specific action plan to enhance agility
Become a champion for enterprise agility
Recognize the advantages and challenges of distributed teams,and how Agile ways of working can remedy the rough spots
Enable and motivate your IT partners to adopt Agile ways of working
Authors
Sunil Mundra
Sunil Mundra is a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks with decades of experience consulting,working with some of the world's largest enterprises. He has helped organizations tackle their most urgent business challenges and has worked with senior executives to shape and execute their roadmap for change.
ThoughtWorks is a global software company and a community of passionate,purpose-led individuals. Our teams think disruptively to deliver empowering technology that addresses clients' toughest challenges,all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change.
