There's a need for businesses, more than ever, to not just innovate and capitalize, but to sustain a rate of innovation greater than their peers and competitors. I thought this article (viz., an interview by two very respected folks in this area) touches very well on those points:
[quote] Hagel: One of the big issues we see is that to date most of the social software tools we are talking about have tended to be one-off kinds of tools. You have instant messaging, Wikis, a whole array of collaboration workspaces that have been developed, but there isn't an operating environment where all these social software tools can come together in a seamless environment. Part of the opportunity here is that as you create these environments that are open ended so you can plug in social software tools as they develop and evolve, you can also create a record-keeping facility. By doing that, not only are you helping people to resolve the exceptions, but you are also creating a record of who came together over what kinds of issues, what was the context of the issue, and what was the resolution of the issue. That creates the basis for doing pattern recognition and dissemination of the learning to a broader part of the organization. Brown: We keep talking about coupling this tool set of social software with the tool set of service-oriented architectures because the latter is already a more fluid tool. So unlike standard ERP (enterprise resource planning)-type systems, you can do incremental changes of the rules. It is much easier to constantly evolve the processes and practices of the organization with the kind of inherent agility that service-oriented architectures in principle provide you. But this also puts a new spin on how you want to design your service-oriented architecture. This looks like how do you capture the context of a breakdown between enterprises. The focus is on architecture that works between enterprises rather than architecture that works within an enterprise. [/quote] The full article is here: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1220.cfm p.s. I am interested in finding dedicated partners to develop an enterprise system corporation on the above lines. If you are interested, either connect with me on LinkedIn, or send me an e-mail. Best regards, Kaleem. "Values in Value Systems factor feelings as responses to perceived risk using the values one has learned to use for a situation one is in." -- my Theory of Everything ('Mathematics with �feelings�.' at http://KaleemAziz.com/ipw-web/b2/index.php?p=292). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
