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Making the business more responsive

Making the business more responsive

From the course: Cloud Computing for the Digital Business

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Making the business more responsive

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- Life is full of surprises. One day your car might break down. The next day you might win the lottery. Unpredictability is even more of a reality for digital businesses because the climates and markets in which they operate can be so volatile. When we talk about a business being agile, we're referring to its ability to be responsive to unexpected change. A big part of enabling business agility is having an environment that can instantly respond to unexpected usage, especially if that usage is coming from your customers. A common reason we invest in digital technology adoption is to grow our business. This might be growth of what we already do or it could be growing our company in a new direction altogether. Either way, it's difficult to predict how this growth will occur, which makes it difficult to prepare our IT enterprise for what's ahead. What's important here is that not being prepared for growth can lead to an…

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