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Are you agile? You have probably heard this question before, and since you read this Advisor, chances are that you answered "yes" to it.

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The rules of the game for attainment of commercial success by established firms are changing faster than anyone can say "change." Technological excellence, of course, still counts. However, it primarily counts as an element of nested business designs.

The rules of the game for attainment of commercial success by established firms are changing faster than anyone can say "change." Technological excellence, of course, still counts. However, it primarily counts as an element of nested business designs. In such designs, the ability of the company itself to be affected through learning and changing is as important as its aspirations to affect customers, markets, and value chains.

Anyone in the business world is familiar with today's relentless pressures to increase productivity, improve customer relationships, create new products, shorten time to market, and increase shareholder return.

Misunderstood, poorly identified, and often brushed aside, the gap between strategic business demands and the ability of deployed IT solutions to meet those demands grows by the day.

Mobile device management will continue to play a key role in enterprise mobility in 2013 as organizations accelerate their use of smartphones and tablets in an effort to increase employee productivity and enable the business to respond more efficiently to customer wants and needs.

Some time ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an article with the title "What the CFOs Want." It reflected the views of a significant number of CFOs from large and small companies, including CFOs from companies such as PepsiCo, Comcast, Ford, DuPon

Although the popularity of current agile values and practices have their roots in software development, there exists a significant opportunity for these agile values and behaviors to be applied across the overall business.