hp adaptive enterprise

How agile is your business?
Agility assessments help you reduce the cost and impact of change

Business agility = competitive advantage

We operate in a world where business and information technology are inextricably linked. Today every business decision triggers a series of IT events. Whether it’s routine changes to product pricing or adding a new employee, or more complex changes like integrating new partners to a supply chain or bringing HR processes online in the form of an employee portal – the point is IT organizations need to manage all of this change on behalf of the business in real-time, without a hitch, with less budget.

Your organization’s ability to swiftly and easily accommodate and even anticipate change is a core requirement for business success today. This new level of business agility requires a flexible, adaptive IT infrastructure that allows your business to manage, control, and optimize the impact of change to your advantage. The key is designed-in adaptability, so IT can change as quickly as your business must – on an appropriate scale with reasonable resource consumption.

Today, HP is ready to collaborate with your team to help technology support new business requirements of any scope or scale. HP provides a phased, metrics-based approach to achieve adaptability improvements. It all begins with our Agility Assessment Service to help you assess your current state and identify a starting point and direction for improvement that’s right for your business.

assessing your business agility

Your enterprise has unique agility requirements – influenced by your unique business strategies, business models, industry and customer trends, and competitive pressures, as well as regulatory and technology requirements.

The key to improving your ability to manage change is to determine where the pressure points and blockages exist. HP Services can guide you through an organized, phased approach to assessing, prioritizing, and implementing improvements across your entire business and IT environment.

HP has partnered with INSEAD, widely recognized as one of the world’s largest and most influential business schools, to develop a set of business agility metrics that help evaluate the ability of your IT infrastructure to accommodate business change across three dimensions:

• Time – the speed at which your organization can promote, enable, and react to change
• Range – the breadth of change that can be addressed in your business, whether across processes, organizations, or technologies.
• Ease – the level of effort required to introduce or support change

meeting your goals

HP’s structured methodology can assess your agility needs and the IT responsiveness of your enterprise. The HP Agility Assessment Service is comprised of three fundamental elements: First, we provide a profile, examining your organization’s IT strengths and weaknesses and overall ability to enable business agility. Next, we identify the critical priorities for agility impact and investment optimization. Finally, we prescribe a set of solutions to address the critical priorities.

from assessment analysis to workshop

As part of your Agility Assessment, HP conducts an in-depth examination of your IT infrastructure’s ability to support the external and internal changes needed in your core business processes – measuring capability along the agility dimensions of time, range, and ease. To help ensure a broad perspective, several organization levels are queried, including CIO, IT managers and technologists, and selected line-of-business managers.

In a moderated workshop, HP presents an analysis of the assessment results, pinpointing impediments to agility and identifying high-priority recommendations for improvement. We’ll also discuss solution impact analysis as well as strategy and roadmap planning. With the assessment results in hand, you’ll have the information you need to launch a clear plan of action to improve your company’s business agility.

creating value through business agility

When it comes to developing innovative approaches to IT infrastructure design, implementation, and management, HP is an industry leader. The HP Agility Assessment Service has its origins in our rich heritage and extensive experience with performance metrics. Our partnership with INSEAD to develop specific business agility metrics offers valuable measures of effectiveness.

Using our proven methodologies and practices, we’ll collaborate with your team to assess what it takes for your organization to improve its business agility. We’ll help you identify problems, establish baselines, and evaluate improvements over time, as you better align IT investments with key business needs. And we’ll guide you in selecting and intelligently implementing the best solutions, so you’ll be able to respond to change more quickly and cost effectively.