Chapter 14

Ten Ways Enterprise Agility Improves Product Delivery

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Improving agility and transparency

check Making your workplace more fun and productive

check Increasing customer satisfaction

check Boosting quality while mitigating risk

When you’re trying to convince your organization’s leadership or your customers to invest in enterprise agility, you need to highlight the many advantages it has to offer. In this chapter, I list ten of the most valuable benefits.

Increasing Agility

One of the advantages of enterprise agility and iterative, incremental product delivery is that they enable organizations to respond quickly and creatively to all sorts of changes, including the following:

  • Evolving customer needs
  • New technologies and approaches
  • Emerging opportunities and threats
  • Changes in the industry and marketplace

Although large organizations can certainly plan ahead to respond to change, change often occurs at a rate that exceeds the ability to plan for it. Modern organizations need to be agile to keep pace with the rate of change.

Boosting Innovation

Enterprise agility drives innovation ...

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