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Building the Agile Enterprise

With SOA, BPM and MBM

  • 1st Edition - September 26, 2008
  • Author: Fred A. Cummins
  • Language: English
  • Paperback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 7 4 4 4 5 - 6
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 6 0 0 8 - 3

In the last ten years IT has brought fundamental changes to the way the world works. Not only has it increased the speed of operations and communications, but it has also un… Read more

Building the Agile Enterprise

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In the last ten years IT has brought fundamental changes to the way the world works. Not only has it increased the speed of operations and communications, but it has also undermined basic assumptions of traditional business models and increased the number of variables. Today, the survival of major corporations is challenged by a world-wide marketplace, international operations, outsourcing, global communities, a changing workforce, security threats, business continuity, web visibility, and customer expectations. Enterprises must constantly adapt or they will be unable to compete.

Fred Cummins, an EDS Fellow, presents IT as a key enabler of the agile enterprise. He demonstrates how the convergence of key technologies—including SOA, BPM and emerging enterprise and data models—can be harnessed to transform the enterprise. Cummins mines his 25 years experience to provide IT leaders, as well as enterprise architects and management consultants, with the critical information, skills, and insights they need to partner with management and redesign the enterprise for continuous change. No other book puts IT at the center of this transformation, nor integrates these technologies for this purpose.