Building the Agile Enterprise: With Capabilities, Collaborations and Values, Second Edition, covers advances that make technology more powerful and pervasive while, at the same time, improving the potential for alignment of technology with business. Using numerous examples, illustrations, and case-studies, Fred Cummins, an industry expert, author, and former fellow with EDS and Hewlett Packard updates the first edition, incorporating the following industry developments: The ubiquitous use of the Internet, along with intelligent, mobile devices have enabled everyone and everything to be connected anytime, anywhere. The emergence of a “business architecture” discipline that has driven improvements in business design and transformation practices. The development of CMMN (Case Management Model and Notation) that will provide automation to support the adaptive work model. The development of VDML (Value Delivery Modeling Language) that supports modeling of integrated aspects of business design. The importance of “big data” management and analysis as a new source of insight into evolution of the business and the ecosystem. How Data warehouses, analytics, visualization, dashboards, and Big Data have transformed Business intelligence. The book is a must have reference for CTOs, enterprise architects, information systems architects, and business process modeling professionals who wish to close the gap between business and IT to create actual value with data.
Discusses the latest technologies that must be exploited for efficiency, effectiveness, and agilityProvides practicable and use case-based experience from advisory work with Fortune 100 and 500 companies across multiple verticalsPresents the development of CMMN (Case Management Model and Notation) and explains how it enables automation to support the agile enterprise. Covers the latest release of the Value Delivery Modeling Language (VDML) established by the Object Management Group (OMG). Explains how data warehouses, analytics, visualization, dashboards, and Big Data have transformed “Business intelligence”
