49-769 Special Topics: Principles of Enterprise Flexibility

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Students will learn about the concept of strategic flexibility. With the raft of new technologies currently unfolding, such as the GenAI, Sky Computing, 6G and the Internet of Things, the students will comprehend the shift underway in the very nature of the enterprise. If the old game was about predicting and planning for the future, the new game is about surfing a fluid, ever changing reality. Software and IT professionals need to enable realtime adaptation, and need innovative rules for this new game. These principles of enterprise flexibility are inherent in Silicon Vally scaling startups are they grow to become large enterprises. Now every enterprise is a software company and needs to be flexible and nimble to be able to adapt to the rapid pace of, often kaleidoscopic, change.

Prerequisites: none listed

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