An Adaptive Enterprise is a modern concept or so we think. In the summer of 1940, Winston Churchill developed the equivalent of an Adaptive Enterprise using the emerging technologies of the time, and transformed his nation to continue a fight thought lost. Author and speaker Mark Kozak-Holland presents the problems faced by Churchill; namely an imminent air war/invasion, and greater foe. He then explains how these were overcome by creating a sense and response organization that was agile enough to respond to threats and resilient enough to meet the demands with its supply chain. If you are looking for clear directions for breathing new agility into your organization, and enjoy history, then this relevant historical case study will help highlight how to approach today's Adaptive Enterprise. h day's Adaptive Enterprise. Biography
Mark Kozak-Holland is a Senior Business Architect/Consultant with HP Services. Mark specializes in helping organizations evaluate how emerging technologies can impact their business and build a business justification. Mark has over 20 years of systems integration and services experience gained internationally. Mark is very passionate about history and sees its potential use as an education tool in business today. As a result, he has developed a “lesson-from-history” series, which is for organizations applying today's Information Technology (IT) to common business problems. It uses relevant historical case studies to examine how historical projects and emerging technologies of the past solved complex problems.