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The ability to be intelligence intensive involves the following aspects:
a. Enterprise Knowledge management
b. Enterprise collaborative learning
When confronted with a competitive opportunity, whereas a smaller company is able
to act more quickly, a larger company has access to more comprehensive knowledge
and can decide to act sooner and more thoroughly.
7.1.3.1 Patterns of Enterprise Agility
Christopher Alexander introduced the concept of patterns in the late 1970s in the field of archi-
tecture: a
pattern
describes a commonly occurring solution that generates decidedly successful
outcomes.
A list of success patterns for agile enterprises (and systems), in terms of their constituting ele-
ments or functions or
components
, is as follows:
1. Reusable
Agility Pattern 1
: The components of agile enterprises are autonomous units cooperating
toward a shared goal.
Agility Pattern 2
: The components of agile enterprises are reusable and multiply replicable,
that is, depending on requirements, multiple instances of the same component can be
invoked concurrently.
Agility Pattern 3
: The components of agile enterprises share well-defined interaction and
interface standards and can be inserted, removed, and replaced easily and noninvasively.
2. Reconfigurable
Agility Pattern 4
: The components of agile enterprises communicate, coordinate, and coop-
erate with other components concurrently and in real term sharing of current, complete,
and consistent information on interactions with individual customers.
Agility Pattern 5
: The components of agile enterprises establish relationships with other com-
ponents in the real term to enable deferment of customer commitment to as late a stage
as possible within the sales cycle coupled with the corresponding ability to postpone
the point of product differentiation as close as possible to the point of purchase by the
customer.
Agility Pattern 6
: The components of agile enterprises are defined declaratively rather than
procedurally; the network of components displays the defining characteristics of any
small-world
network, namely, local robustness and global accessibility.
Agility Pattern 7
:
The components of agile enterprises are self-aware, and they interact with
other components via on-the-fly integration, adjustment, or negotiation.
3. Scalable
Agility Pattern 8
: The components of agile enterprises operate enterprises within predefined
frameworks that standardize intercomponent communication and interaction, deter-
mine component compatibility, and evolve to accommodate old, current, and new
components.
