What does agility mean to you and your organization?
Huawei has experienced agility at project and version upgrade, we are now in the midst of product agility. Agility enables Huawei to shorten requirement realization, increase the change success rate, and bring the development team closer to our end users with our ROADS Concept. ROADS is the new standard to evaluate user experience introduced by Huawei, meaning real-time, on-demand, all-online, DIY, and social. The internet has changed consumers’ buying behaviors, and transformation is needed for organizations to provide products and services in today’s customer-driven market. Organization agility allows us to proactively adjust our strategy to cope with the fast-changing environment and new trends.
Zuwei Yi, EPMO President at Huawei Technologies, Shenzhen, China
Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions, provider. Driven by a commitment to sound operations, ongoing innovation, and open collaboration, Huawei has established a competitive ICT portfolio of end-to-end solutions in telecom and enterprise networks, devices, and cloud technology and services.
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It’s about being adaptive to changes in our environment and being responsive to dynamic business demands. Agility needs to cut across our value chain and manifest in the delivery of faster outcomes for our clients and for our organization. It is all about being agile and not just doing agile, which means that having an ‘agile mindset’ is critical to achieving agility and this requires a cultural change in the organization.
Alok Uniyal, VP & Head – Process Consulting, Infosys Ltd., Bangalore, India
Infosys is a global leader in technology services and consulting. From engineering to application development, knowledge management, and business process management, the organization helps clients in more than 50 countries to create and execute digital transformation strategies.
The only constant thing is change. As one of the world’s biggest internet firms, we are facing changes and challenges today more than ever. In response to the changing and unpredictable business environment, our organization must build up the capability to implement an agility strategy systematically.
Driven by a commitment to sound operations, ongoing innovation, and open collaboration, he has established a competitive portfolio of end-to-end solutions.
Yi Su, Senior Expert, Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China Alibaba is a leading e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer, and business-to-business sales services via web portals. The businesses are comprised of core commerce, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, innovation initiatives, and others.
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