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Enterprise Agility

By : Sunil Mundra
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Enterprise Agility

By: Sunil Mundra

Overview of this book

The biggest challenge enterprises face today is dealing with fast-paced change in all spheres of business. Enterprise Agility shows how an enterprise can address this challenge head on and thrive in the dynamic environment. Avoiding the mechanistic construction of existing enterprises that focus on predictability and certainty, Enterprise Agility delivers practical advice for responding and adapting to the scale and accelerating pace of disruptive change in the business environment. Agility is a fundamental shift in thinking about how enterprises work to effectively deal with disruptive changes in the business environment. The core belief underlying agility is that enterprises are open and living systems. These living systems, also known as complex adaptive systems (CAS), are ideally suited to deal with change very effectively. Agility is to enterprises what health is to humans. There are some foundational principles that can be broadly applied, but the definition of healthy is very specific to each individual. Enterprise Agility takes a similar approach with regard to agility: it suggests foundational practices to improve the overall health of the body—culture, mindset, and leadership—and the health of its various organs: people, process, governance, structure, technology, and customers. The book also suggests a practical framework to create a plan to enhance agility.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Enterprise Agility
About Packt
Forewords
Endorsements
Contributors
Preface
Other Books You May Enjoy
Index

Redefine/validate the purpose of the enterprise


The purpose/mission of the company defines the essence of its existence. It helps to bring alignment across the enterprise on what outcomes it values most, and therefore is a guiding force for all decision-making in the business. It defines how an enterprise will differentiate itself from its competitors. The criticality of the purpose cannot be emphasized enough, as it is the foundation of the strategies of the enterprise and encapsulates its values.

Enterprises can enhance and sustain agility only if they are an integral part of their surrounding ecosystem. The ecosystem consists of various groups of stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, suppliers, the society at large, and, most importantly, the customers. Enterprises can no longer operate in a vacuum, hence the need to have a mission/purpose that is inclusive of the stakeholders that it is closely connected with and to be able to clearly articulate this as well. However, sometimes...