Mobile Applications - Guide to Cloud Computing for Business and Technology Managers - page 467

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Mobile App lications
Mobile computing represents a fundamentally new paradigm in enterprise
computing. Mobile computing enables operating a job- and role-specific
application loaded on a handheld or tablet device that passes only relevant
data between a field worker and the relevant back-end enterprise systems
regardless of connectivity availability.
22.1 Agile Enterprises
The difficult challenges facing businesses today require organizations to
be transitioned into flexible, agile structures that can respond to new mar-
ket opportunities quickly with a minimum of new investment and risk. As
enterprises have experienced the need to be simultaneously efficient, flexible,
responsive, and adaptive, they have transitioned themselves into agile enter-
prises with small, autonomous teams that work concurrently and reconfig-
ure quickly and adopt highly decentralized management that recognizes its
knowledge base and manages it effectively.
Enterprise agility is the ability to be
1. Responsive—Adaptability is enabled by the concept of loosely cou-
pled interacting components reconfigurable within a unified frame-
work. This is essential for ensuring opportunity management to
sustain viability.
The ability to be responsive involves the following aspects:
a. An organizational structure that enables change is based on
reusable elements that are reconfigurable in a scalable frame-
work. Reusability and reconfigurability are generic concepts that
are applicable to work procedures, manufacturing cells, produc-
tion teams, and information automation systems.
b. An organizational culture that facilitates change and focuses on
change proficiency.
2. Intelligence intensive or ability to manage and apply knowledge
effectively whether it is knowledge of a customer, a market opportu-
nity, a competitor's threat, a production process, a business practice,
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