The agility of an enterprise is a measure of its ability to adapt to changing environments and seize opportunities in a nimble, opportunistic manner. Internet-enabled businesses exhibit extraordinary agility, and it allows them to thrive in the face of radical shifts in market, channel, technology, and infrastructure. Second, it must alter its corporate structure to empower employees with information technology. Third, it must steel itself for an ever-increasing pace of change in both process and culture in anticipation of the accelerating rate of changes to come.
Internet solutions make companies agile.
Electronic commerce, for example, exposes the firm to new consumers and new markets. Self-service employee portals contribute to leaner organizations and more efficient, productive workers. This combination of application and internetwork service providers, business applications, server, Internet appliances, and system integrators forms the Internet Business Ecosystem. The ecosystem consists of a web of interwoven relationships that rely on intelligent services from the network in order to function properly. These intelligent services hold the ecosystem together.