Build an Adaptive Enterprise! (page 1 of 2)

In the two years since we've developed and introduced the Adaptive Enterprise, we've learned that it is vital for us to focus and specialize on a series of strategic building blocks that, when connected over time, helps you build your own Adaptive Enterprise.

"How agile is my IT?" is one question most frequently asked of us by customers who want to evolve toward an Adaptive Enterprise. We answer that question with our Agility Assessment Service.

Our Agility Assessment Service measures your enterprise and allows you to compare yourself with some of the best 300 companies in the world, on topics such as IT agility, change management and ratios between IT Infrastructure and application innovation.

Based on the results of an Agility Assessment, we can construct a series of pragmatic solutions your company could follow.

For example, Steelcase, Inc. turned to HP for an Agility Assessment to help quickly identify ways to improve its ability to respond to change. According to John Dean, vice president of Global E-Business and CIO at Steelcase, "I was hoping that from our HP Agility Assessment we'd get verification for the direction we were heading and new ideas for becoming more agile. We got both."

And that's the idea. Agility is not new. But what's new is HP's ability to measure and manage agility. HP has spent more that two years studying how to actually manage and measure agility.

Today, we have the people, unique processes and technology to determine the actual agility of your business processes as well as how agile they need to be. It's important to remember that not every single process has to respond at the speed of light. Once a company understands agility, HP can offer a practical approach to assist your company in becoming a much more Adaptive Enterprise.

Your company is unique and your requirements are unique. Because of that, we've created adaptability in our solutions to meet your demands on how you would like to engage with HP.

For example, a company can select HP as a trusted partner for evolving toward an Adaptive Enterprise and also choose to have HP build the solutions to support more powerful strategies, as Bank of India did. Bank of India has always been innovative, but the focus of the organization is on banking, not technology.

"We want to align our IT strategy with business strategies, which will help us serve our customers better," says M. Venugopalan, chairman and managing director, Bank of India. "With HP, our vision can become a reality."

On the journey toward the Adaptive Enterprise, HP will play a role in making the Bank "business agile", and at the same time ensuring it receives the best available industry-standard solutions and services from HP.

In addition, HP will help the Bank to reduce total cost of ownership, incorporate significant technology benefits and conserve capital. HP will leverage proven global methodologies such as IT service management (ITSM) to reduce time to implementation and improve operational control with around the clock operations.

"We were looking for a partner with the right domain knowledge and expertise in integrating and managing large projects," says Venugopalan. "We chose HP due to their experience in both outsourcing and systems integration. Furthermore, HP will help us evolve our infrastructure, ensuring the most cost-effective utilization of IT".

Our solutions are designed to be flexible, to support your business goals and align IT and business.