Posts

Showing posts from August, 2012

Business Agility: Agile Business Transformation Framework, Part 2

Image
Abstract:   E nterprise Strategy, Architecture and Project Management are critical when making decisions about the assessment, adoption or de-adoption of emerging technologies for IT-enabled business transformation and agility (e.g. virtualisation, cloud, social media, BPM, mobile). However, the absence of agility and lack of integration between the enterprise strategy, enterprise architecture and project management can lead to slow and inconsistent technology assessment and adoption. The alpha version 2.0 of the integrated Agile Business Transformation framework (see Figure 1), introduced in a three-part article, is an attempt to address this problem and can be used to guide effective technology assessment, adoption and improvement .  Figure 1. Integrated Agile Business Transformation Framework (Copyright Dr. Asif Q. Gill 2012) Introduction Part 1 of this article discussed the agile business transformation and agile enterprise strategy (AES) aspects of this frame

Business Agility: Agile Business Transformation, Part 1

Image
Abstract:  E nterprise Strategy, Architecture and Project Management are critical when making decisions about the assessment, adoption or de-adoption of emerging technologies for IT-enabled business transformation and agility (e.g. virtualisation, cloud, social media, BPM, mobile). However,   the absence of agility and lack of integration between the enterprise strategy, enterprise architecture and project management can lead to slow and inconsistent technology assessment and adoption. The alpha   version 2.0 of the integrated Agile Business Transformation framework (see Figure 1), introduced in a three-part article, is an attempt to address this problem and can be used to guide effective technology assessment, adoption and improvement . Figure 1. Integrated Agile Business Transformation Framework (Copyright Dr. Asif Q. Gill 2012) Introduction This framework builds on the well-known agility and CAS (Complex Adaptive Systems) theories, and valuable work done in industry to-d