E-MailEnterprise Agility and IT Infrastructure Survey Data
This survey investigated enterprise agility and its relationship to IT infrastructure. Nineteen percent of the 124 respondents come from companies with more than 10,000 employees, 28% from companies with between 1,000 and 10,000 employees, 33% from companies with between 100 and 1,000 employees, and the remainder from companies with less than 100 employees. Annual revenues range from more than US $10 billion (12%) to less than $1 million (11%), with 15% having annual revenues between $1 billion and $10 billion, 19% between $100 million and $1 billion, 24% between $10 million and $100 million, and 19% between $1 million and $10 million. Annual IT budgets range from less than $100,000 (9%) to more than $100 million (12%) with 23% having annual IT budgets between $100,000 and $1 million, 28% between $1 million and $10 million, and 21% between $10 million and $100 million (7% of respondents do not know the dollar amount of their annual IT budget). Thirty-three percent of the respondents identify themselves as the role of IS/IT management or senior management/policy making, 20% as project management, and 15% as consulting, with the remainder holding a range of titles.
Graph 1 -- Does your organization explicitly consider the need for IT agility in its IT strategy and plans?
Graph 2 -- Has your organization developed explicit measures for IT agility that are monitored on a regular basis?
Graph 3 -- How would you rate your organization's level of IT agility relative to your competition's level?
Graph 4 -- Has your organization committed to a service-oriented architecture (SOA)?
Graph 5 -- Please indicate how you would characterize your organization's IT strategy along each of the following dimensions.
Graph 6 -- How easy is it to predict the requirements for your organization's IT systems looking three years ahead?
Graph 7 -- In projects that use an agile process, does your organization adopt a uniform agile methodology?
Graph 8 -- Please indicate the predictability of each of the following business factors looking three years ahead.
This issue focuses on the management of the agile enterprise and on understanding how organizations can facilitate and foster agile practices through investments in IT infrastructure and technology practices. As such, the survey our contributors crafted tackles issues of strategy, relative positioning and competition, as well as technology infrastructure, software development methodologies, and IT architecture.