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This article is part of the April 2012, Iss. 1 issue of BPMN 2.0: Assessing a year of change
The ability to respond faster to market changes has always been an imperative in a competitive marketplace. Today’s businesses have the advantage of technology to help deliver real-time information and automate processes—both keys to true business agility. However, IT systems themselves must also be smarter and faster, and the pressure is on IT to deliver. “Business agility is the capability to adjust how the business works in response to change in the environment, such as customer needs, competitors’ actions and things that happen within the company itself,” said W. Roy Schulte, a vice president and distinguished analyst for Gartner Inc. He defines two types of agility: process agility and instance agility. “Process agility is being able to change something in a business process because the process doesn’t work right,” Schulte said. Instance agility means that “you can change each instance of the business process, but the process doesn’t change.” An example of instance agility is in an automobile assembly line in which each car is different from the one ... Access >>>
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Building smarter, faster systems for real-time benefits
by Crystal Bedell
By providing a right-now picture of the business environment, agile systems can provide organizations with true competitive advantage.
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Complex event processing boosts agility to create competitive advantage
by Jack Vaughan
There’s nothing complex about event processing’s simple payoff: When properly integrated with other systems, it adds considerable value—and those benefits are increasingly accessible to companies of all types and all sizes.
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Building smarter, faster systems for real-time benefits
by Crystal Bedell
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Decision management adds agility to customer processes
by Lynn Haber
Automation, mobility and increasingly sophisticated analytics are just a few of the trends driving adoption in key areas across the enterprise.
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Decision management adds agility to customer processes
by Lynn Haber
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Editor’s Letter: Agile boosters for business
by Anne Stuart, Site Editor, ebizQ
When it comes to operational efficiency—or, as some experts prefer to call it, operational effectiveness—the one thing you can say without fear of contradiction is that everybody wants it.
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Editor’s Letter: Agile boosters for business
by Anne Stuart, Site Editor, ebizQ
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