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Agile networking : competing through the internet and intranets
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Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1998
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9780137601257

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Agile is a mainstream business strategy designed to help corporations react effectively to destabilizing forces shaping global forces, from technoolgies that evolve and obsolete themselves overnight to customers with worldwide access to products and services who will forsake favoured suppliers for whoever has the product right now. This book aims to show decision-makers how they can counter those problems by developing agile networks of intranets and extranets that allow for flexible interaction between employees, customers and business partners, wherever they may be located, given the flexibility of shared information and co-operative business processes that benefit all involved.


Table of Contents

I Agility
1 Introduction to Agility
What Is Agility? Why We Need Agility
Where Did Agility Come From?
What Will Agility Do for Me?
Agile Principles
The Agile Mind-set
The Bottom Line
2 Agility in Action
The Situation
The Hours before Battle
The Agility Perspective
Final Comments
3 Agile Principles I
Agile Principle 1: Enriching the Customer
Agile Principle 2: Mastering Change
4 Agile Principles II
Agile Principle 3: Leveraging Resources
Agile Principle 4: Cooperating to Compete
5 Agility Change Domains
The Change Proficiency Domains
Assessing Change Proficiency
II Agile Networking Capabilities
6 Networking and Agility
The Networking Model
Agile Networking
Agile Networking Change Domains
7 Agile Group Communication
Relevance to Agility
Why Is Group Communication Agile?
Agile Applications of Group Communication
Summary
8 Agile Intranet Publishing
Relevance to Agility
Features of Intranets
Benefits of Intranet Publishing to the Agile Enterprise
Illustrations of Agile Intranet Publishing
Responsible Agile Publishing
Intranets and Collaboration
Summary
9 Agile Knowledge Management
Relevance to Agility
Common Views of Knowledge Management
Characteristics of Real Knowledge
Five Operating Principles
Valuing Knowledge for Agility
Agile Knowledge Management Based on Group Conferencing
Importance of Intranets for Agile Knowledge Management
Summary
III Agile Operations
10 Agile Teaming
Virtual Teaming
Agile Teaming
The Agile Teaming Life Cycle
Convening an Agile Team
Designing Agile Teams
Agile Teaming Performance
Dissolving Agile Teams
Summary
11 Agile Learning Services
Relevance to Agility
A Note about Terminology
Introduction to an Agile Learning Service
Requirements for Agile Learning Tools
A Note on Collaborative Learning
Informal Learning
An Agile Learning Service
Summary
12 Agile Law Services
New Challenges for Law Services
Creating an Agile Law Service
Nine Steps as a Foundation to an Agile Law Service
Summary
13 Agile Management
Management Is Helping to Get the Work Done
Six Tasks for Agile Managers
Management and Coaching as an Agile Core Competency
Summary
IV Agile Networked Enterprise
14 Agile Networked Alliances
Alliances: The Old Assumptions
Agile Alliances: The New Assumptions
Types of Agile Alliances
Agile Networking Capabilities for Alliances
Summary
15 Agile Networked Commerce
Agile Commerce Model
Personal Services
Information Services
The Electronic Storefront
Interacting with the Customer
Intellectual Property
Finance
Conclusion
16 Agile Networked Education
The Situation
Forces of Change
The Gap
Enriching the Customer
Leveraging Resources
Cooperating to Compete
Mastering Change
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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