The Adaptive Enterprise: It Infrastructure Strategies to Manage Change and Enable Growth

Abstract

From the Publisher: The agile business embraces change rapidly and gracefully. That requires an infrastructure to support change without disruption or excessive cost. An adaptive infrastructure enables the business to cope with unforeseen circumstances and competitive demands. To build, use, and manage adaptive enterprise solutions, you need an infrastructure planning process that supports new and growing business initiatives. The strategies and processes described in this book will give you clear and practical ways to guide your company through Internet-induced change: Plan your infrastructure end-to-end. This book provides a number of successful infrastructure planning models that can help you efficiently and effectively plan and implement an adaptive enterprise infrastructure. Design an adaptive infrastructure. This book explains the fundamental concepts of adaptive infrastructure and explains how to address the major opportunities and challenges you will face. Execute a reuse strategy. This book tells you how to identify key infrastructure patterns within your organization and how to use those patterns to derive reusable adaptive infrastructure services. Address people, processes, and technology. You can make great technology choices, but if you don't have the right people and processes, your technology choices won't bring the success that you expect. Achieve an optimal balance between immediate needs and long-term goals. You must be able to change what you are doing while you are still doing it. This books shows you how to strike a balance that helps you transform while you are performing.

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