In the future, competitive success will belong to organizations that are able to cope with rapid external and internal changes – organizations that can demonstrate ‘Business Agility’ – defined by Gartner as "An organization's ability to sense environmental change and respond efficiently and effectively to that change."
There are many factors that can contribute towards business agility including Information Technology. Whilst it is widely recognized that IT has a key role to play in enabling the ‘sense’ and ‘responding’ components of business agility it is also clear that IT can hinder agility through monolithic architectures and siloed applications and information.
Arjuna’s forthcoming product, Arjuna Agility™ (Agility) is a Peer-to-Peer Computing Platform. It enables business agility by creating an ‘internal cloud’ of IT resource within the enterprise. In particular, Agility:
Agility provides these advantages without requiring existing IT infrastructure to be restructured or applications changed in any way. Agility maximizes the return on IT investment and, at the same time, provides the flexibility and speed of delivery that enterprise IT needs in order to effectively respond to business opportunities and threats when they arise.
In this increasingly turbulent market executives cannot rely on long-range forecasting and must instead create an organization that can quickly respond to change. An agile IT infrastructure is central in supporting the move towards business agility.
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