1) The document discusses several aspects of agile practices from a business perspective, including increasing speed to market, managing change, and sustaining quality.
2) It emphasizes that large, established organizations can be resistant to change but that changes in the market require swift changes in direction. Agility allows for quick adaptation.
3) Maintaining customer-driven innovation and delivery is a key aim of agile practices, which use collaborative, empirical, iterative processes to ensure ongoing accommodation of change.