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Driving Business Agility through Business Process Optimization
By Rasheed Adegoke
Content Business Agility: What is it? Key attributes of an Agile Enterprise How to build an Agile Enterprise Why Business Agility? Q&A
Business Agility: What is it?
Business Agility: What is it? In general, agility is defined as "the ability of a system to
rapidly respond to change by adapting its initial stable configuration (Source: Wikipedia)
Business Agility is the ability of a business to adapt rapidly and cost-effectively to changes in the business environment
Key attributes of an Agile enterprise
Key attributes of an Agile enterprise Business Agile Enterprises are characterized by the
following capabilities: Elasticity: ability to scale up/down capacity in response to
business demands Speed: ability to respond quickly to changes in the market
place and deliver new product/service Coordination: ability to align difference components of the
agile enterprise: processes, people, technology Balance: ability to balance the delivery of new innovation with
the maintenance of current operation so that transition are not disruptive
How to build an Agile Enterprise
How to build an Agile Enterprise
ELASTICITY Dynamic Technology Infrastructure
Adoption of virtualisation and cloud technologies
Smart-sourcing for support capabilities leveraging in-house and outsourced managed services
Rapid Application Development and Integration
Agile development techniques
Adoption of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) for application integration
Business Process Management
Workflow automation and Workforce Management
Process Modeling and Management
Process Performance tracking and continuous improvement
SPEED
COORDINATION
BALANCE
Agile Business Actions/Initiatives required to build AgilityAgility Drivers/Enablers
Creating Dynamic IT Infrastructure
Source: VMWare
Rapid development & SOA Build around re-usable components Adopt loose coupling integration strategies Orchestrate via an Enterprise Service Bus layer
Image Source: Microsoft
Business Process Management
Source: IBM
Business Process Optimisation Stage 1:
Manual adhoc processes
Stage 2: Standardised process
flows
Stage 3: Automated workflows
with metrics tracking
Why Business Agility?
Why Business Agility?
Corporate Performance
Business Agility
IT/Process Agility
Increased an income line item from N90m for FY’09 to N1.56b in
FY’10
THANK YOURasheed Adegoke