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    Agile Enterprises: Seven Steps to Becoming More Adaptable, Innovative

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    Darryl K. Taft
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    December 17, 2013
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      1Agile Enterprises: Seven Steps to Becoming More Adaptable, Innovative

      1 - Agile Enterprises: Seven Steps to Becoming More Adaptable, Innovative

      by Darryl K. Taft

      2Prioritize With a Pace-Layered App Strategy

      2 - Prioritize With a Pace-Layered App Strategy

      Agile enterprises prioritize their systems by pace layers, or the speed at which they need to adapt. They don’t let systems of record (like ERP or CRM) get in the way of differentiating and innovative applications. Agile enterprises take advantage of rapid application-delivery frameworks to build new differentiating and innovating applications on top of their systems of record.

      3Execute With a High-Level Strategy

      3 - Execute With a High-Level Strategy

      Agile enterprises acknowledge the Pareto Principle, in which 80 percent of a project’s effects come from 20 percent of its causes. With this in mind, they start executing with high-level requirements, knowing that feedback on each iteration will further shape their ideas. Rather than getting caught up in the details of a new project, Agile enterprises start executing with a high-level strategy and develop their concepts iteratively.

      4Identify Areas of Opportunity

      4 - Identify Areas of Opportunity

      Agile enterprises are resourceful in their pursuit of innovative applications that enable them to maintain their market leadership. They continuously renew value in past technology investments by extending existing systems of record with new user interfaces, built-in business logic, and augmented data structures that streamline and automate inefficient business processes. These enterprises don’t have the words “rip” or “replace” in their vocabulary.

      5Never Build Anything Twice

      5 - Never Build Anything Twice

      Agile enterprises are always on the hunt for development synergies that save time and resources. Sharing and reusing application components in a central and secure Enterprise App Store assures that time spent building new applications is time spent creating new business value, not reinventing the wheel. Agile enterprises spend their resources carefully; that means never building anything from scratch when someone else in the organization has already built it.

      6Harness the Exponential Pace of Technology

      6 - Harness the Exponential Pace of Technology

      Agile enterprises understand that the exponential speed of technological advancement reflects the compounding nature of innovation. They use new technologies to make their own technology better, faster, smarter and more adaptive. Companies that fail to adopt new expertise and tooling ultimately fail to push their own technology forward at the rate their market requires.

      7Create an Enterprise-Wide Feedback Culture

      7 - Create an Enterprise-Wide Feedback Culture

      Agile enterprises bring an iterative methodology to all their projects. They create a feedback culture that rewards product owners with valuable insights and fosters cross-functional collaboration. These teams release early, and release often, knowing that requirements and priorities will likely have changed by the time they’re ready for their next iteration. The consistent capture of new feedback enables Agile enterprises to continuously adapt their systems and processes.

      8Unmask Innovation Superheroes

      8 - Unmask Innovation Superheroes

      There are members of every organization that hold expertise in multiple disciplines, demonstrating a propensity for technology as well as their particular business function. Agile enterprises know that this perspective has an advantage in conceptualizing and executing innovative applications. These “superheroes” are recruited, conditioned, and tasked with turning innovative and differentiating ideas into reality.

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