Management for the Adaptive Enterprise (page 1 of 2)

For instance, to keep up with the competition, an automobile manufacturer must increase the number of new model introductions from two per year to six, without sacrificing quality.

To capitalize on a growing youth market, an entertainment company wants to double its production of animated features, without doubling its costs. To maintain margins and grow revenues, a retailer must implement a real-time supply chain, without interrupting ongoing business operations.

How quickly can your business identify and respond to change? And can you leverage change and turn it to your advantage? The answer lies in becoming an Adaptive Enterprise—where business and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change.

A tight coupling between business and IT enables you to quickly and easily respond to change, maximize return, mitigate risk, improve performance and increase agility. Becoming an Adaptive Enterprise lowers IT-related costs while simultaneously making your IT environment flexible enough to deliver what your business needs to stay ahead of the competition.

Managing change

The world was a very different place—not too long ago... Monolithic data centers with fairly static IT environments were common. Batch type processing was prevalent.

New applications easily took months if not years to design and implement. IT resources were dedicated to applications and there was little or no linkage between these applications, thus creating a rigid, inflexible infrastructure. So when a change was required, it took lots of time and lots of money.

Today, the world is vastly different. IT environments need to be dynamic, as they have very little time to react to events. It is critical to be able to "manage technology at the pace of change." And there is so much more to manage! Now there are remote data centers, desktops, laptops, handhelds, shared printers, storage devices and Internet-enabled cell phones.

The proliferation of devices is creating new requirements every day and as technologies such as RFID proliferate, management of these devices gets more critical and more complex. Compliance for new corporate governance regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, is also putting more pressure on enterprises.

Customers, partners and employees all want to be connected and receive services wherever they are, whenever they need them and in a format that works well with the device they are using. Suppliers want virtual access to your inventory databases to manage supply chains. Management is the key to success in meeting today's demands head on.

Focusing on business priorities

Today, IT organizations are measured on the availability, quality and cost of the IT services they provide for the business. HP management for the Adaptive Enterprise combines software and services to enable you to unlock the value of your existing IT resources.

HP's approach to management integrates people, processes and technology to create a dynamic link between IT resources, business processes and business priorities. And HP management solutions continually measure, assess and optimize the performance of IT in support of your business priorities.

As a leader in IT Service Management, HP Services provides experienced consultants who apply industry best practices and proven methods to guide you through the necessary steps to build a powerful, business-driven IT organization.

HP Services consultants help you design and build processes that optimize IT service delivery at agreed-upon targets for service levels, quality and costs.