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It's time to flex: Create the organisational and cultural agility to do business on demand

Those companies that have systematically replaced less flexible organisational elements with more adaptable alternatives will enjoy a distinct competitive advantage - the ability to do business on demand.
Executive Strategy Report
Author: IBM Business Consulting Services
Last updated: 06 Dec 2003
Publication number: G510-3559-00

An on demand business is an enterprise whose business processes – integrated end to end across the company and with key partners, suppliers and customers – can respond with flexibility and speed to any customer demand, market opportunity or external threat.

Across every industry, the business environment is becoming more complex, fast-paced and unpredictable. Under such strain, rigid business structures will eventually break. But those companies that have systematically replaced less flexible organisational elements with more adaptable alternatives will enjoy a distinct competitive advantage – the ability to do business on demand


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