The need for enterprise flexibility in an era of rapidly advancing technology, increasing competition, and globalization, is apparent. Flexibility can be thought of as an ability of the enterprise to quickly and efficiently respond to market changes and to bring new products and services quickly to the market place. Beyond this definition, a truly flexible enterprise should proactively change the market through its ability to create new and innovative products and services. The proposed book is intended to provide a conceptual framework of ‘Flexible Enterprise’ supported by researches/case applications in various types of flexibilities exhibited by a flexible enterprise. The selected papers from a variety of issues concerning the planning and operation of a flexible enterprise are organized into following four parts:

I Enterprise and Strategic Flexibility

II Organizational Flexibility

III Business Process and Information Systems Flexibility

IV Operations Flexibility

Part I Enterprise and Strategic Flexibility.- Chapter 1: The Concept of Flexible Enterprise.- Chapter 2: Creating Enterprise Flexibility through Service Oriented Architecture.- Chapter 3: Defining Strategic Flexibility.- Chapter 4: Flexible Strategy Framework for Managing Continuity and Change in E-government.- Chapter 5: Government Regulator’s Role   in Managing Competition through Flexibility in Telecom Industry of India: A Policy Perspective.- Chapter 6: Theoretical Roots of Flexible Strategy Game-card: An Evolving Strategic Performance Management Framework.- Part II: Organizational Flexibility.- Chapter 7: Architecting Flexible Organizations.- Chapter 8: Towards Understanding the Effects of Outsourcing on the Flexibility Dynamic of System of Systems.- Chapter 9: Creating Order out of Disorder through Intuitive Flexibility.- Chapter 10: Framework for Utilization of Global Resources for Knowledge Creation and Application through Flexible Organizations.- Chapter 11: Flexibility, Controllability and Risk Measurement Metrics in Changing Pattern of Business Environment.- Part III: Business Process and Information Systems Flexibility.- Chapter 12: On How Agile Systems Gracefully Migrate Across Next-Generation Life Cycle Boundaries.- Chapter 13: In Pursuit of Workflow Breakthroughs Using Just Enough Process Management.- Chapter 14: Developing Flexible Business Process Management Systems Using Modular Computing Technologies.- Chapter 15: Rapid Deployment Approach through Flexible System Design: Breakthrough in Technology Innovation and Process Optimization for eClinical Trials.- Chapter 16: Information Systems Flexibility in Organizations: Conceptual Models and Research Issues.- Part IV: Operations Flexibility.- Chapter 17: Flexibility via Virtual Cellular System for Variability.- Chapter 18: Role of Manpower Flexibility in Lean Manufacturing.- Chapter 19: Supply Chain Flexibility: Some Perceptions.- Chapter 20: Marketing Flexibilities: Lessons from theCorporate.