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Gartner: Defining, Cultivating and Measuring Enterprise Agility
we define agility as “the ability of an organization to sense environmental change and respond efficiently and effectively to that change.” Sensing the need for change also includes the proactive initiation of change. This is a simple definition to start the discourse, but a concept such as agility needs flesh beyond the bare-bones definition. The remainder of our definitional research explains why agility is emerging as a critical topic, how agility fits within the context of IT, why an agility cycle is the best approach to managing your agile action, and why the human factor (people issues) may be the biggest impediment to success with your efforts.
Business agility – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Agility is a concept that incorporates the ideas of flexibility, balance, adaptability, and coordination under one umbrella. In a business context, agility typically refers to the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to market and environmental changes in productive and cost-effective ways. The agile enterprise is an extension of this concept, referring to an organization that utilizes key principles of complex adaptive systems and complexity science to achieve success.
Business-Agile Enterprise – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Business-Agile Enterprise (B-AE) is a business architecture that combines and extends the concepts of a real time enterprise, agile software development and business agility. A B-AE is a company that has mastered the interrelationships between business and Information Technology (IT) of resiliency, agility and innovation. It uses these interdependencies as a way to attain competitive advantage, industry leadership and improved financial results