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Greetings!
Welcome to AGILITY News. This newsletter is intended
to provide insights, research, best practices,
resources, new
learning, and case studies about organizational agility.
We are especially happy to recognize and
congratulate
CIO Magazine's Agile 100. These organizations
represent
the best practices required for organizational
transformation to agility.
Agility Consulting, LLC provides products and
processes to enable companies to build and sustain
individual, team and organizational agility.
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| CIO Magazine Appoints Dr. Nick Horney to AGILE 100 Panel of Experts |
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I am fortunate to have been a member of the 6-person
Panel of Experts that helped create the criteria and
process for the Agile 100. Our resulting criteria
focused on overall organizational agility and Information
Technology's contribution to agility.
Congratulations to those organizations who competed
as
well as those who were selected as The Agile 100
Honorees.
The Agile 100 Honoree Organizations »
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| Agility Transformation at DLA -- Stephanie Overby |
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"In the 1990s, in response to lessons learned from a
logistics debacle in the first Gulf War and the changing
demands of the DLA's most challenging customer, the
modern soldier, the agency began a transformation.
It
streamlined operations to become a leaner, more
flexible support organization for the military. 'It
became
very clear that we had to become competitive. And for
us to become competitive we had to be agile,' explains
Director of Supply Corps Vice Adm. Keith W. Lippert, U.
S. Navy."
More on the DLA Transformation -- Agile 100 Example »
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| Compare How Agile Your Organization is to Others |
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a quick comparison between your organization's agility
and others.
This assessment will take about 5 minutes to
complete. If you would like to find out more about a
more comprehensive assessment of organizational
agilty, please refer to the ORGANIZATIONAL
AGILITY AUDIT process under the Quick LINKS
section.
The critical success factors for achieving and
sustaining organizational agility that form the core of
this survey are:
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| The Agile 100 -- Edward Prewitt (CIO Magazine) |
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"Suddenly, agility is in the air. In the cautious optimism
of the postrecession, preboom economy, agility-the
ability to adapt quickly to changing business conditions
and take advantage of rapidly emerging opportunities-
has become the sine qua non of organizational fitness.
Conferences are devoted to it; technology advertising
campaigns promise it; executives want it."
"In IT circles, agility has become associated with a
flexible, component-based approach to software-agile
programming, agile databases and agile modeling.
But
CIOs and IT departments must go beyond software
development principles and practices to call themselves
agile."
"IT agility has a lot to do with the culture, with
making sure that everyone from my position down to
the entry levels understands what we need to do as a
company," says Ken Sidon, president of honoree
company Antares Management Solutions.
"It comes down to the people rather than the
technology."
More about The Agile 100
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