Increasingly organizations are confronted with unpredictable events and uncertainty in their internal and external business environment. Business agility is the capability of an organization to sense changes - either disruptions or opportunities - in the internal and external environment, respond efficiently and effectively in a timely and cost-effective manner, and learn from the experience to improve the competencies of the organization.
Friday, 17 October 2008
Empowering the (business) user key to agility
Empowering (business) users means putting them in a position to direct how their systems work, how they support the business, how they change. James Taylor mentions four requirements to empower users:
- Provide information about the business (reports, dashboards and visualizations)
- Provide understanding of the systems and processes (via business process technology and business rules)
- Give control of the systems (to a certain degree)
- Offer simulation of proposed changes in a way that makes sense to the user(generate understanding what a change will do before it is implemented)
Further reading
Empowering employees is the basis for business agility (Microsoft)
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