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Building the Agile Enterprise
With Capabilities, Collaborations and Values

A comprehensive resource that covers advances that make technology more powerful while also improving the potential alignment of technology with business

Fred A. Cummins (Author)

9780128051603, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 13 September 2016

430 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.7 cm, 0.93 kg

"From the title it would appear that this tome is just another take on agile software development, but neither this edition nor its predecessor is purely about software; rather, Cummins focuses on how to build an organization that takes on challenges and reorganizes in the face of environmental, customer and market changes. The old saw comes to mind: a politician is asked how he could have changed his mind, flip-flopped on an important issue. The response: 'I change my mind when the facts change, what do you do?' Unfortunately too many organizations fail to take note nor advantage of situational change and miss opportunities to grow or even survive. A key idea, for both technical people and organizational leaders, is understanding how to model the enterprise and take advantage of models in real-time. Cummins gives far more than an overview on how to survive and flourish, in an agile way, in a changing world. No organizational leader should ignore the opportunity to succeed using his approach." – Richard Mark Soley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Object Management Group, Inc.

Building the Agile Enterprise with Capabilities, Collaborations and Values, Second Edition covers advances that make technology more powerful and pervasive while, at the same time, improving alignment of technology with business. Using numerous examples, illustrations, and case studies, Fred Cummins, an industry expert, author and former fellow with EDS and Hewlett Packard, updates his first edition incorporating the following industry developments:

  • The ubiquitous use of the Internet along with intelligent, mobile devices, which have enabled everyone and everything to be connected anytime, anywhere
  • The emergence of a “business architecture? discipline that has driven improvements in business design and transformation practices
  • The development of CMMN (Case Management Model and Notation) that will provide automation to support the collaboration of knowledge workers and managers
  • The development of VDML (Value Delivery Modeling Language) that supports modeling of business design from a management perspective
  • The importance of “big data? management and analysis as a new source of insight into evolution of the business and the ecosystem
  • How the architecture of the agile enterprise and business modeling change enterprise governance, management and innovation

Building the Agile Enterprise with Capabilities, Collaborations and Values, Second Edition is a must have reference for business leaders, CTOs; business architects, information systems architects and business process modeling professionals who wish to close the gap between strategic planning and business operations as well as the gap between business and IT and enhance the creation and delivery of business value.

1. The Agile Enterprise2. Business Modeling for Business Leaders3. Business Building Blocks4. Next-Generation Business Process Management (BPM)5. Rules for Actions and Constraints6. Enterprise Data Management7. Information Security8. Event Driven Operations9. Sense and Respond10. The Agile Organization Structure11. Agile Enterprise Leadership

Subject Areas: Information architecture [UYZM], Information technology: general issues [UB]
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