Can you learn to improve your thought processes and business agility through video games?
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Increasing requirements for business agility, reducing costs, and improving efficiencies has forced organizations to implement private clouds.
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Now is the time to start transforming your applications so you can increase business agility and competitiveness.
Cloud computing is increasingly being adopted as a way for IT organizations to decrease costs, improve efficiency and enhance business agility.
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They, like most smart businesses, know that a dollar invested in corporate training pays for itself ten-times over in quality, retention, and overall business agility.
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The increase in business agility and responsiveness that cloud computing makes possible shifts the strategic value of the CIO from a technical role to a business role.
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Without question, HR has learned during the past decade that employee engagement is a key source of competitive advantage, driving high levels of customer satisfaction, knowledge sharing, business agility and bottom line profitability.
Eager to enhance business agility while lowering IT costs, many companies are ramping up both public and private cloud deployments and changing the tenor of the related conversations from technical comparisons to business benefits, McKinsey says in a recent article.
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"Microsoft is creating end-to-end solutions for partners and customers to win in a changing industry where business agility and the use of information technology to drive revenue and profit growth have become critical, " says Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer , 43, in a press release.
Called Cloud for Business Managers: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, the report reveals that a fragmented approach to cloud apps has led many companies into their very own troughs of disillusionment, in which the hoped-for increased business agility, nimbleness, and optimized decision-making continue to remain beyond their reach.
So persuasive is cloud computing that companies have been known to plunge into it with gusto while turning a deaf ear to warnings from information security officers, who see gaping holes in the corporate data security fabric where business managers see agility and economic benefit.
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Business lore now tells us that social media can accelerate, activate, and grow your business with phenomenal speed and agility.
So how can business leaders cultivate the organizational agility needed to adapt to rapidly shifting markets and consumer preferences, especially in an established company?
These greater speeds make for an increasingly competitive and volatile environment, and embedding agility in your business, being able to iterate and pivot when necessary, may be the difference between bonus and bankruptcy.
Corporations with departmental compliance programs that either (a) exist in informational silos, or even (b) communicate with (but only with) the Legal Department, may be at greater legal risk than necessary, as well as sacrificing potential business efficiency, effectiveness, and agility.
Success is driven by speed, agility, and optimizing your business for local markets.
One thing seems certain, that technology innovation and current economic dynamics are driving the need for agility, flexibility, new business models and sustainable growth.
Agility is a strategy for achieving the business goals, not the goal itself.
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The new operating system continually assesses the business, the industry, and the organization, and reacts with greater agility, speed, and creativity than the existing one.
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It will be interesting to see how this shift plays out over time, and how communications professionals, who are most comfortable with the power and agility of creativity, will partner with other operational areas within these companies to impact business strategy development.
In a cover story for a recent issue of Harvard Business Review, Professor John Kotter described a new type of organization that combines speed of execution with agility to seize new opportunities quickly.
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