There has and continues to be a lot of discussion around Business Agility and following is how I would define Business Agility
Business Agility = Business Alignment + IT Flexibility
Business Alignment: Alignment between the various business units
IT Flexibility: Alignment between Business and IT + ability to rapidly deploy new business capability
My observation has been that business is pretty flexible and has the capability to create a new business model effectively, if required (of course under the right leadership). The real challenges are IT's ability to integrating the new business model with the existing infrastructure. My experience has been that adopting SOA enables IT flexible to adapt to these changing business models.
Business Agility could also be defined as:
Business Agility = Business Intuition + IT * (Business Alignment + Flexibility)
Business Intuition: A common sense approach for aligning the various business unit
Business Agility = Business Intuition + IT * (BPM + SOA)
BPM: for aligning IT with the Business (yes! the business defined the business process but it is the business analyst - typically from IT captures this. Very rarely have I seen business actualy use a BPM tool for modeling business processes)
SOA: for providing flexibility
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I would also include Businesses Primary driver/focus in the mix such as cost, time to market, compliance etc. I like to use an example where Mercedes and Kia Motors are in the same business i.e. Automobile but the definition of their business agility is very different from each other. SOA approach must be tailored to achieve the primary objective of a given business
Ashok Kumar
We usually think of business agility as the alacrity with which a business can respond to market forces. You seem to be developing a formula for measuring how responsive the technology organization can be to the enterprise's business objectives. Certainly agile IT is an important component of an agile business, but the issues related to business agility are different from those that must be considered in building IT agility.
-Robert
Robert - I agree that this is targeted for the IT audiences and am currently in the process of coming up with a domain model which includes both business and IT.
With business agility are you not talking about an organisation that is able to operate in real-time, in all senses? This is particular pertinent to large organisations as opposed to small ones that are inherently agile.
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