| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Business Agility, Process Manufacturing
How Heaven Hill Distilleries got its business agility

Heaven Hill Distilleries explains how they’ve achieved their goals and how they became more agile. Recently, I was in conversation with…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
An Agile Answer to those Useless Facebook Quizzes

So a bunch of really smart people here at IFS had a brainstorm. If people would waste their time to take a quiz with no payback, why not offer up an interactive online quiz that would yield valuable business insight about their level of business agility?

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
Star Wars’ Hidden Business Agility Message

In this entertaining post, blogger Paul Cooper takes a lighthearted look at business agility by deconstructing the egregious errors committed…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
Does IFS Live Up to The Agile Enterprise Hype?

What we say makes little difference. So please — download this whitepaper, read it, and tell us what you think. When it comes to ERP software, does IFS walk the walk or just talk the talk?

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Strategy
As an agile business, how can IFS help you be agile?

I read a very interesting post on this blog by Martin Gunnarson, who is the Director for Research and Strategy…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
If nothing in your business will change in the next 10 years…

…selecting and implementing enterprise software would be a lot easier. Sure, you would still need to ensure that whatever enterprise…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
A Business Agility Lesson from Muhammad Ali

In a previous post on the importance of operational knowledge to business agility, we use a colorful analogy make clear that if…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
A 3:30 a.m. Lesson in Business Agility

Next time you make this mistake, consider it as a lesson in business agility. It is dark in the house,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
What an article written in 1960 means for 21st Century business agility
Theodore Levitt

What business are you really in? Today, you may be in the aerospace components business. Or the power generation business….

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
Is implementing ERP like dipping your business in concrete?
ERP like dipping your business in concrete business agility

It is an old joke, that may sometimes target specific software vendors, that implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software or…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
Business Agility Lessons from BMW and Corvette (kind of)

Whether you are a dyed-in-the-wool auto enthusiast or just someone like me who has a more spirited driving style, you…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology
Why does business agility matter now more than ever?

Change or die. It is a pretty simple concept!

And that is why IFS is devoting substantial resources (see the first in our series of business agility whitepapers) to making the case for increased business agility, not only in the thinking of executives and the intelligentsia, but in the technology infrastructure that holds an enterprise-class business together.

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