Building the agile enterprise : with capabilities, collaborations and values / Fred A. Cummins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cummins, Fred A., author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information resources management.

Management information systems.

Agile software development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 408 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Morgan Kaufmann, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Building the Agile Enterprise with Capabilities, Collaborations and Values, Second Edition covers advances that make technology more powerful and pervasive while, at the same time, improving alignment of technology with business. Using numerous examples, illustrations, and case studies, Fred Cummins, an industry expert, author and former fellow with EDS and Hewlett Packard, updates his first edition incorporating the following industry developments: The ubiquitous use of the Internet along with intelligent, mobile devices, which have enabled everyone and everything to be connected anytime, anywhere The emergence of a “business architecture” discipline that has driven improvements in business design and transformation practices The development of CMMN (Case Management Model and Notation) that will provide automation to support the collaboration of knowledge workers and managers The development of VDML (Value Delivery Modeling Language) that supports modeling of business design from a management perspective The importance of “big data” management and analysis as a new source of insight into evolution of the business and the ecosystem How the architecture of the agile enterprise and business modeling change enterprise governance, management and innovation Building the Agile Enterprise with Capabilities, Collaborations and Values, Second Edition is a must have reference for business leaders, CTOs; business architects, information systems architects and business process modeling professionals who wish to close the gap between strategic planning and business operations as well as the gap between business and IT and enhance the creation and delivery of business value. Explains how business design abstraction based on collaborations, capabilities and values provides a management view of how the business works, the aspects to be improved or changed, and the means to quickly reconfigure to address new business challenges and opportunities Discusses how technology must be exploited for efficiency, effectiveness, innovation and agility Provides practicable and use-case based insights from advisory work with Fortune 100 and 500 companies across multiple verticals Presents the features of CMMN (Case Management Model and Notation) and explains how it enables automation to support knowledge workers, managers and enterprise agility Describes application of the Value Delivery Modeling Language (VDML) to link strategic business transformation to operational design

Contents:

chapter 1. The agile enterprise

chapter 2. Business modeling for business leaders

chapter 3. Business building blocks

chapter 4. Next-generation business process management (BPM)

chapter 5. Rules for actions and constraints

chapter 6. Enterprise data management

chapter 7. Information security

chapter 8. Event driven operations

chapter 9. Sense and respond

chapter 10. The agile organization structure

chapter 11. Agile enterprise leadership.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 26, 2016).

ISBN:

9780128051603

0128051604

9780128052921

0128052929

OCLC:

964534938