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Enterprise Agility

You're reading from Enterprise Agility Being Agile in a Changing World

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788990646

Length 490 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Agile

Authors (2):

Daryl Kulak

Sunil Mundra

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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 FREE CHAPTER

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

What are CAS?

According to BusinessDictionary.com, CAS is defined as:

"Entity consisting of many diverse and autonomous components or parts (called agents) which are interrelated, interdependent, linked through many (dense) interconnections, and behave as a unified whole in learning from experience and in adjusting (not just reacting) to changes in the environment." [viii]

One of the most popular definitions of CAS was offered by John H. Holland, a pioneer in the study of CAS: 

"A Complex Adaptive System (CAS) is a dynamic network of many agents (which may represent cells, species, individuals, firms, nations) acting in parallel, constantly acting and reacting to what the other agents are doing. The control of a CAS tends to be highly dispersed and decentralized.
If there is to be any coherent behavior in the system, it has to arise from competition and cooperation among the agents themselves. The overall behavior of the system is the result of a huge number of decisions made every moment by...

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Authors (2)

Daryl Kulak

Daryl Kulak

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Sunil Mundra

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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