The Adaptive Enterprise Manifesto

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The Adaptive Enterprise Manifesto

What Will You Get From Our Group?

We live in an increasingly unpredictable and noisy world. It's getting harder for

businesses to be certain what’s round the corner - from the loyalty of customers

to which companies will exist next year.

We need to be better prepared to predict and plan for the future if we want to

adapt and thrive. We need to un:think the way things are currently done – To

ensure business transformation through IT transformation by the intelligent

implementation of cloud systems, application modernisation and embracing the

growing needs of our technology-savvy users.

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Looking Forward To 2014

20% of IT outsourcing

companies will be lost to

mergers or acquisitions,

due to a lack of investment

in industrialisation and

value-added services

Source: Gartner

15% of top outsourcers’

revenues will be

cannibalised as a result of

the introduction of

low-cost cloud services

Source: Gartner

The Situation By 2015

4.4m big data jobs will be

needed across the world,

but only a third will be filled

Source: Gartner

40% of the Global 1000

organisations will achieve

business transformation

primarily through

gamification

Source: Gartner

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Aims For Our Customers

Here are the issues we think are essential for thought leaders, strategic partners

and consultants looking to help our customers to build the adaptive modern

enterprise.

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We want to make sure our customers can deal with changing business

and technology requirements over time. Cloud needs to deliver its

promise of agility and integrate more closely to the business, which

means we need to move beyond the private/public debate and use

hybrid models intelligently.

Enterprises need to align their IT departments and other business units

behind a single set of objectives and values, which recognise the

changing technology foundation upon which they depend.

We want to make businesses both sustainable and scalable, resilient to

risk and innovative. Investment needs to be made in the right places,

balancing delivery of short-term business value and longer term ROI.

Enterprises want to simplify processes, increase efficiency and improve

their total cost of ownership by making best use of Agile project

management techniques and DevOps flow techniques. How can we use

our experience and best practices to assist our customers?

In rapidly changing and unpredictable environments, how can

technology be used to transform IT departments and to bridge the gap

between what the business wants and how quickly the IT department

responds?

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Industry Challenges

Not only do enterprises need a clear vision to reach their business objectives,

but they will also have to overcome a number of real-world challenges. Here are

some industry challenges that we can discuss in our group:

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Our customers are dealing with increasing complexity, both internally

and externally. As well as trying to incorporate heterogeneous user

needs, they are operating across more geographies and physical loca-

tions, each bringing a variety of practices and cultures.

Operating models need to change. Moving from product-oriented

approaches to IT management, organisations are looking to break with

traditional technology silos and enable the provision of IT as a service.

Toxic Technology is a drag on many businesses. Legacy technology,

monolithic software architectures and backward process inertia can

pollute any move to more flexible delivery models, including cloud.

Consumers are becoming more sophisticated, demanding and fickle. If

businesses do not meet consumer expectations of service and quality,

functionality and speed of delivery, they will quickly go elsewhere.

Even as it struggles to keep the lights on, IT departments are being

placed under increased pressure to deliver innovation. IT needs to

support business objectives, not act as a barrier. Otherwise, business

units will start to bypass IT and go straight to external providers.

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Find us here: http://bit.ly/1dvZ2VG

We can un:think oversimplified approaches and break through the hype, by

bringing experts together with genuine domain experience.

Our membership includes decision-makers and influencers from the world's

ystems integrators, outsourcers and consultants. Your peers are the best

source of informed criticism and the most current information and

approaches.

Together, we can succeed. Through partnership we can achieve more than

we could on our own. Through the sharing of information, best practices and

architectural frameworks we can grow our collective knowledge. Through

debate and deliberation between great minds, we can challenge tired ideas

and develop new perspectives.

The Time To un:think Is Now.

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