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Enterprise Agility

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Product type Book

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788990646

Pages 490 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Business Process Management

Author (1):

Sunil Mundra

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Enterprise Agility

About Packt

Forewords

Endorsements

Contributors

Preface

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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

Index

Significance

Almost all enterprises do at least some outsourcing of information technology (IT) work. American research firm Gartner defines IT outsourcing as "the use of external service providers to effectively deliver IT-enabled business process, application service and infrastructure solutions for business outcomes." [i]

Outsourcing ranges from working with a single provider, to having an ecosystem of providers. It is not uncommon to find the number of providers to be in three digits. For example, a large bank in India has 300 different companies for its IT solutions and services providers, and an internal team of over 100 people to manage these providers.

The primary drivers for outsourcing include the following:

Access to specialized capabilities
Cost reduction
Augmenting IT capacity
Focusing on core competencies
Reducing risk

While these benefits are important for every company, collaborating with a technology partner has its own set of challenges, given that the partner is a different enterprise...

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Authors (1)

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.

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