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- Decision support systems and agility charactersistics.
- Hi All,I read a lot about the agility trends in all IT discplines.My question is:1- What about DSS and agility, especially it has many human factors and enviroment variables that are affected by any change in the enviroment.2- are there are low limits of agility needed in a DSS?Thanks
- Discussion threads 2007-05-21
- IT's responsiveness tied to agility
- Despite the lull time provided by a down economy, most CIOs today aren't primed to respond quickly when market conditions improve. We'll tell you how to prepare so that the IT unit can be ready when the need for tech solutions spikes.As the economy slowly steers out of a recession,...
- Technical articles 2002-03-25
- Building an 'Agile' Response to Change
- Agility is the ability of an organisation in whole, or in part as required, to transform itself competently in order to manage or exploit a new situation. Systemic agility is achieved by preparing people culturally for change and structuring flexibility for change into the processes, systems and infrastructure that they...
- White papers 2008-10-28
- Strategic Agility Planning for Banks
- Today, the banking industry needs greater agility to address challenges such as vulnerability to economic cycle vagaries, transient customer loyalties, increasing regulatory pressures, and heightened expectations from other stakeholders. Another agility driver is a need to harness new opportunities such as Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), and new product segments. To...
- White papers 2009-01-15
- Organisational Agility - How Business Can Survive and Thrive in Turbulent Times
- A recent Economist Intelligence Unit EIU survey found that nearly 90 percent of global executives believe that organizational agility is critical for global business success. Yet, more than 27 percent indicated that their organizations are at a competitive disadvantage because they aren't agile enough to anticipate fundamental marketplace shifts. The...
- Webcasts 2009-04-16
- City Administration Uses Virtualization Solution to Drive Agility, Boost Productivity
- Comune di Roma is the largest municipality in Italy and the capital city. Comune di Roma wanted to consolidate servers for its new data center and centralize a managed test environment to efficiently deploy new software. After deploying Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, IT staff will be able to virtualize servers...
- Case studies 2008-11-12
- MSDN Webcast: Protocols for Maximizing Agility (Level 200)
- Agility is the power of moving with speed and ease, a behavioral nimbleness arising from the ability to think and draw conclusions quickly. This webcast shows how increased agility can be achieved with any group by using a small set of interpersonal protocols, called "The Core Protocols" by McCarthy Technologies....
- Webcasts 2007-01-08
- The Impact of Work Force Agility on Business Performance
- Agility is an issue that is becoming more and more prominent in businesses across industries. While it is a common goal, its meaning can be somewhat ambiguous. Depending on the context, agility can mean different things to different organizational units. But one common thread persists: the accelerating speed of change....
- White papers 2007-11-16
- Responding quickly to changing markets: Anticipate, Adapt, Excel
- Market change is relentless: ever-higher customer expectations, shrinking product life cycles, and new rivals on the scene all accelerate the pace. But small businesses and midsize companies have one distinct advantage over larger competitors: agility. With fewer organizational layers and less-rigid processes, smaller businesses can act much faster than the...
- White papers 2007-12-12
- Momentum Webcast: Supporting Marketplace Agility With Software Asset Management (SAM) (Level 100)
- According to Gartner, agility is "the ability of an organization to sense environmental change and respond efficiently and effectively to that change." Through this webcast one can learn about the benefits of an agile SAM practice, such as the ability to manage software costs effectively, control inventories, add new users,...
- Webcasts
- Rule Enabling Applications With Oracle Business Rules
- The primary motivator for the use of Business Rules is improved "agility", for implementing business policy changes. This agility, meaning fast time to market, is realized by reducing the latency from approved business policy changes to production deployment to near zero time. In addition to agility improvements, Business Rules development...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Crafting a Human Resource Strategy to Foster Organizational Agility: A Case Study
- A decade ago, the CEO of Albert Einstein Healthcare Network AEHN, anticipating a tumultuous and largely unpredictable period in its industry, undertook to convert this organization from one that was basically stable and complacent to one that was agile, "nimble, and change-hardy". This case study briefly addresses AEHN's approaches to...
- Case studies
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- Measuring and Benchmarking the Agility of Your Business White Paper
- Markets are not necessarily dominated by the largest companies but by those businesses that can make fast, effective decisions and quickly capitalize on change. These abilities can drive a company to the top, no matter what its size. Success is no longer gauged solely by traditional metrics such as efficiency...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Yell Uses Agility Quotient to Benchmark Capabilities and Analyse Opportunities
- Yell, a leading international directories business, is committed to continuous improvement to maintain its leadership. The challenge for Yell was to assess the ability to adapt to effectively meet changing market/customer conditions, agility benchmarked against the industry, performance in three core areas - sales, marketing, and customer service, realisation of...
- Case studies
- SOA Case Study: Agility in Practice
- As boundaries within and between enterprises become increasingly permeable, there is a greater need for information flow. This is inhibited by the "Information silos" formed by traditional software applications. Service Oriented Architecture SOA replaces these silos with loosely-coupled services, enabling information to flow as needed, and delivering enterprise agility. This...
- Case studies
- Increase Business Agility Through BRM Systems and SOA: Best Bets to Increase ROI on Your Enterprise Applications
- The widespread acceptance of Service-Oriented Architecture SOA proves that enterprises have realized the promise of this technology. That promise of increased agility comes from a basic software design principle: loose coupling. SOA allows for business functions to be exposed as independent services. Web services, which is one way to implement...
- White papers 2008-05-27
- Anystream Agility Media Plug-In
- Making content available for on-air broadcast, mobile, web, VOD and a variety of other outlets is becoming increasingly important to Signiant customers. The ability to transcode content into multiple formats has been available for a number of years but as timelines get shorter and B2B relationships span the globe, content...
- White papers 2009-02-06
- Achieve IT Agility by Integrating SOA With ITIL Based BSM
- Business Service Management BSM, rooted in ITIL, helps organizations manage IT from a business perspective. By identifying and mapping business-critical processes to the underlying IT infrastructure and services, BSM connects key business services to the IT services that manage them, such as routers, servers, and applications. While BSM does the...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Thinking Beyond Silos to Consolidate Systems for Maximum Simplicity, Agility, Value
- While any storage consolidation activity can deliver benefits, adopting a strategic view of consolidation that looks beyond storage silos can bring significantly greater outcomes by maximizing simplicity, agility, and value. For example, by consolidating not just devices or arrays but storage management tools as well, organizations can boost the return...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Storebrand Improves Agility by Integrating Business Processes With IBM Solution
- Storebrand Group is Norway's oldest and one of its biggest financial services companies, and a leading player throughout Scandinavia. The company wanted to improve business agility, ability to make timely and informed business decisions and provide better customer service. The solution to this was sort by implementing a service oriented...
- Case studies 2006-06-01
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