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“Churchill's Adaptive Enterprise”  provides professionals  an example of an adaptive enterprise and identifies its key business  values, and what is required to deliver it. With this knowledge they can ensure their projects succeed long after deployment and meet the expectations  of their organization.   



   

Churchill’s Adaptive Enterprise
The solutions within the book aim to provide the following benefits specifically to business and IT professionals responsible for multiple projects and for ensuring all projects are run well and come in profitably.
   
Value Proposition and Benefits to the Reader

The journey to an adaptive enterprise may take 2  to 5 years to complete, and the benefits may not be fully realized till later  in the project. Churchill’s analogy demonstrates the end-state of the  solution and the output of the journey. It also demonstrates:

  1. How to improve the organization’s ability to react to business events, and make the best use of all the information, knowledge and intelligence stored around it.
  2. How to determine the significant business events that need to be sensed and responded to.
  3. How to understand the challenges in business integration and how to approach these.
  4. How to mitigate the risk through strategies and avoid the pitfalls of these projects.
  5. How to realign business processes and the organizational structure to best leverage the emerging technology.
  6. How to create the payback and business case by working closely with the business communities, discerning the key players, target audience and content requirements.
  7. How to deliver a solution that is successful and widely adopted across the organization.
  8. How to establish the communities that can collaborate and create knowledge for an organization.

 

What if Scenarios
Through the journey you will see Churchill and his leaders in action and better understand the background and the events leading up to the adaptive enterprise and actions as they unfold. You can study the characters their decisions and leadership and play out what if scenario.


This page last  updated on November 27, 2005.

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