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Agility describes the ability for an organization to identify
and rapidly respond to changes in its business environment for
competitive advantage. This has become critical as both the complexity
and speed of doing business today has increased dramatically.
The more agile an organization is, the more likely that organization
will succeed and thrive.
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The key to agility
is flexible and responsive business
processes. Changing business processes has traditionally been
a costly and time intensive effort. It involves everything from
the definition of new policies and
procedures, development of supporting IT systems, and changes
to the organizational
structure. For decades management thinking has focused on
developing processes that were built to last.
A process driven organization brings a new mindset that processes
should be built to change. Agility comes from leveraging the thinking
behind business process management
principles and implementation through the recent technology
advances that make process agility possible.
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