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Prior research conducted by BTM Corporation has shown that companies with converged management of business and technology realized higher profits and faster growth than their competitors. Further discovery illustrated that these companies were agile as well. The BTM Business Agility Assessment you are about to take builds on that research to examine the attributes of agility and how successful companies employ technology to achieve it.
Agility results from nurturing innovative thinking through carefully designed processes, employing organizational designs that support measured risk-taking, and building information architectures that serve as a collective knowledge base for building scenarios.
Technology, when used in support of an organizations strategic position, plays an integral role in creating an environment that fosters business agility. Technology is at the heart of business processes and models today, and its true that approaches such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can introduce flexibility into a firm's infrastructure that allows the business to be nimble.
By developing an environment in which strategic exploration and the development of business agility occur, a critical link is built first in establishing and then in sustaining an organizations strategic positioning. Being agile requires capabilities that are shaped by designing and managing business processes and technology enablers together. Through convergence, agility is enabled and repeatable.
How Agile is Your Organization?
Following the concepts of the BTM FrameworkTM , the Business Agility Assessment was developed for research purposes to evaluate organizations against a set of essential capabilities and constructs in order to understand what successful companies do differently and how such behavior directly relates to business agility.
The assessment consists of questions focused on the BTM Maturity and architectural constructs and practices needed for an in-depth look at business agility.
This research, conducted in partnership with IBM's SOA, BPM and WebSphere Software Group, examined the attributes of agility and how successful companies employ technology to achieve it. The BTM Business Agility Index was built on a framework that describes the processes, structures and behaviors that together comprise business agility: Management Behaviors; Business Technology Architecture; and Operational Practices. The findings revealed the key role business agility holds in economic performance and how business technology convergence can accelerate establishment of a strategic position that drives such action and benefits.
Results of your self-assessment will be available online immediately upon submission of your final responses. Assessment results will display two scores: 1) your business agility score, and 2) a reference score showing the cumulative average of every completed assessment submitted to-date, allowing you to benchmark your score against data incorporated in the Index. Please note that the cumulative score is continuously updated as the database continues to build.
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