The document discusses how business agility can help companies innovate, transform, and grow in complex and changing markets. It outlines several "agility levers" which are combinations of technology capabilities that accelerate the path to agility. These levers include real-time decision automation, optimized IT planning, accelerated application delivery, and faster process change integration. Case studies show how companies have used these levers to improve outcomes across their lifecycles and business changes. The document advocates that companies establish agility projects, programs, and transformations with IBM's assistance.

1. The Power of Business Agility for Innovation, Transformation and Growth Jesper Christensen

3. CEOs Recognize the Challenges and Opportunities as the Business Network Becomes More Dynamic IBM Global CEO Survey, Institute for Business Value, 2010 “ In these uncertain times, effective and swift decision making is more important than ever.” Shuzo Sumi , President and CEO Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. “ The complexity over the next five years is off the charts – a 100 on your scale from 1 to 5” Edward Lonergan , President and CEO Diversey, Inc. “ Our products need to anticipate need , rather than respond to a request.” Michael D’Ascenzo , Commissioner of Taxation, Australian Taxation Office

5. Drive Agility Throughout the Lifecycle of Meeting Customer Needs Make better decisions driven by analytics and business rules Accelerate application, service and information delivery and extend reach to cloud Take a smarter approach to process and integration

7. Make Better Decisions Driven by Analytics and Business Rules How can you: Improve your operational decisions and the decisions you make about change?

8. Use Agility Levers To Make Better Decisions Agility Lever: Optimized IT planning Capability : Application Portfolio Management A large bank uses decision planning to reduce applications from 600 to 147 Agility Lever: Real-time, intelligent decision automation Capability: Decision Management Santiago Stock Exchange improved real-time securities fraud surveillance by 100% Agility Lever: Visualized infrastructure & predicted disruptions Capability: Predictive Business Service Management Large US city realized 60 - 90% improvement in availability of critical services

9. Take a Smarter Approach To Process and Integration How can you: Respond faster and better to business change?

10. Use Agility Levers To Take a Smarter Approach To Process ¹ Customer Case Study, Demonstrated Benefits of Software Delivery Automation, Hurwitz 2011 Agility Lever: Faster process change and integration Capability: Business Process Management + SOA Premier has helped 157 hospitals save 23,000 lives and $2.85 billion in 30 months Agility Lever: Streamlined and automated deployment Capability: Collaborative Dev/Ops 40% reduction in build and deploy errors and 46% increase in software deployment frequency1

11. Accelerate Application, Service and Information Delivery and Extend Reach To Cloud How can you: Accelerate the delivery of applications and services securely and cost efficiently?

12. Use Agility Levers To Accelerate Delivery of Technologies 2 Aggregation of results from a productivity study conducted by IBM System z customers. Agility Lever: Accelerated application delivery Capability: Multiplatform Development Demonstrated 22-37% improvement in developer productivity 2 Capability: Cloud Deployment and Management Haddon Hill Group demonstrated improvement in cloud deployment speed by 100 times Capability: Universal Connectivity Stein Mart saves 500 labor hours in data recovery Agility Lever: Secure information delivery

17. IBM Is Your Partner Of Choice For Business Agility #1 in Business Rules #1 Solution for Boosting Software Team Collaboration #1 Overall Software Development Platform #1 in SOA #1 in BPM #1 in Application Integration Middleware #1 in Connectivity #1 in IT Operations Management

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