Description

The growing interests on web services, outsourcing, innovation,
and open source indicate the importance of agility. Agile enterprise is the organizing
formula in the global, digital age. The key design characteristics are flexibility to
changes and sensitivity to “what’s going on out there?” It encapsulates the movement
towards the development of new organizational paradigm for the 21st Century
economy. In this article, Nirmal Pal and Michael Lim (Yung-Hui) elaborates on the concept of the Agile Enterprise and its key characteristics.