Our book, Agile Networking, is the prescription for competitiveness and organizational survival in the networked age. It was the first book on what is now called e-agility and business agility.

Agility emerged in the USA in 1991 as a federally-funded, industry-led program to make business competitive. It is an enterprise-wide strategy in which the customer is the first priority, change is an opportunity to do things better, and delivering value is paramount.

Today agility, a.k.a. business agility and e-agility, defines the imperatives for doing business in the new customer-centric, knowledge-based, global economy. Agile Networking sets out the principles and capabilities through which organizations can achieve agility through internal transformation based on today's networked tools and network-based processes.

In Agile Networking the authors, themselves networking and agility practitioners, present a roadmap for creating the agile organization based on Internet and intranets: defining the first 21st century IT strategy. The book is logical, reasoned, and visionary. Drawing on examples from the USA and Europe it:

• Explains and demystifies the art and science of agility.
• Shows how agility is the recipe for competitive success.
• Demonstrates how networking underpins the truly agile organization.
• Explains how to develop agile networking (e-agility) in readers' own organizations.

In a rational, no-nonsense way, Agile Networking gives you the agile spin on key issues for competitiveness in today's wired world, including:

• customer relationships
• proficiency at change
• enterprise communication
• knowledge management
• virtual teams
• e-learning
• responsive management
• strategic alliances
• electronic commerce
• virtual universities

Agility International offers education and consulting to help organizations transition to agility and business agility through networking. See the here for contact details,and here for more information about agility itself.

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