Integration is all too often seen as the only answer to the problems facing organisations. These problems typically involve the historic implementation of systems and applications, which were installed to solve specific issues. However, if organisations solve the problems of the now without regard to the future, then they are simply wasting resource in a bid to maintain a certain position.
The truly adaptive enterprise recognises that fact that the real way forward is to create an infrastructure of both technology and people that allows interoperability between all the elements of that infrastructure. By doing this, organisations can start to address the problems of the now and the problems of the future.